President/CEO of @academyhealth HSR-Researcher/Author/Pediatrician. I make videos/podcasts @HCTriage & write for @NYTOpinion. Tweets represent me and me alone
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My colleague Elizabeth Cope takes a close look at scientific integrity in a recent Situation Report, and why AcademyHealth's Blueprint includes stronger protections for federal health research. ahsituationreport.substack.c…
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The Trump administration has gutted AHRQ -- a small agency at HHS tasked with overseeing care delivery -- and won't say how it's redirecting grant $$ Congress gave it.
One nugget: Some researchers got letters signed by staffers fired 9 months earlier.
washingtonsun.com/health/ins…
Aaron E. Carroll retweeted
America's health data systems weren't built for today's challenges.
This week's Deep Dive, by @aaronecarroll.bsky.social, explores AcademyHealth's Blueprint and why modernizing health data infrastructure is more urgent than ever. buff.ly/Vbazrx2
As I told @Tradeoffspod, "We want to build something sturdier."
That's why we created AcademyHealth's Blueprint for the future of health research.
Read it here: blueprint.academyhealth.org/
Listen here: tradeoffs.org/2026/10/15/rei…
Recent events showed that the federal health evidence system rested more on custom than on law. AcademyHealth's new Blueprint proposes ways to turn that custom into obligations that bind. blueprint.academyhealth.org/
How do we build a federal health evidence system that holds up under any administration? AcademyHealth's new Blueprint is our nonpartisan, agency-by-agency attempt to answer that question. blueprint.academyhealth.org/
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Congress’s watchdog arm has found the Trump administration illegally withheld federal funds last year from federal government programs at the EPA and HHS. w/ @anna_c_kramer washingtonsun.com/whitehouse…
Health services research helps address the things Americans dislike most about health care - costs, access, quality, and delays in care. The GAO has now confirmed that funding for that work was illegally withheld.
Read AcademyHealth's response: ahsituationreport.substack.c…
Issue 6 of our Decisionmaker's Guide is out. My goal was the same as it has been with every issue: understand the evidence, explain why the estimates differ, and be clear about what we don't know. Read it and judge for yourself. academyhealth.org/publicatio…
Aaron E. Carroll retweeted
New #WTH pod up! @rachel_roubein, @rachanadpradhan and Shefali Luthra on MAHA, pocket recissions, and 50 years of the Hyde amendment. Plus @aaronecarroll on the dismantling of AHRQ.
kffhealthnews.org/podcast/wh…
A new single payer analysis projects 114,000 fewer deaths. But 51,311 of those are attributed to reversing 2025 coverage rollbacks, not to single payer itself. That's 45% of the headline estimate. Our guide breaks it down. academyhealth.org/publicatio…
In the final Pain Points episode, I dig into why medical bills ambush people: opaque pricing, messy billing, and a brutal appeals process. The video shows what’s hidden, what’s not said, and what to ask for. youtube.com/watch?v=pQ4rqZId…
Why do single payer estimates differ so much? A big reason: assumptions about what hospitals and physicians would be paid when commercial insurance goes away. Yale and AAF make very different assumptions. academyhealth.org/publicatio…
New Pain Points video: what aren’t insurers telling you? Missing fees, surprise prior auths, fragmented bills. I break it down and provide simple steps to avoid shocking bills. Watch now. youtube.com/watch?v=pQ4rqZId…
I want to see fixes to prior authorization that actually help: standardized rules, policy change, "gold-carding" trusted providers, and better transparency so patients aren’t blindsided. Learn more about these solutions in this week’s Pain Points ep: youtube.com/watch?v=nM0HbLXc…
After 17 months without a meeting, The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has new members. This is good news. But how will they evaluate evidence when the infrastructure has been damaged? Read more in our statement: academyhealth.org/blog/2026-…
I’ve walked out of the clinic with a care plan, then later learned an insurer needed prior auth. Hours on hold, repeating my story, wondering whether treatment will happen. How can policy fix this? Watch this week’s Pain Points ep: youtube.com/watch?v=nM0HbLXc…
Filling out redundant paperwork, waiting on hold forever, spending hours trying to understand what’s covered and what’s not. This should not be the burden of patients. But it is. Here’s why: youtube.com/watch?v=npjTMLez…
I studied health services research to learn how to improve health systems. In this new Situation Report, Timothy Beebe explains what happens when programs that train the next generation of researchers lose that experience. ahsituationreport.substack.c…
Looking forward to gathering with the D&I community this December at #DIScience26 to discuss how we can better leverage tools and evidence to improve clinical, community, and public health practice.
Register here: academyhealth.org/DIScience2…