Writings

JAMA: Improving Health Care Quality Measurement to Combat Physician Burnout 

The Hill: How to keep a promise to put patients over paperwork 

MedPage Today: Death by 10,000 Clicks: The Electronic Health Record 

Neurosurgery: The EHR burden among neurosurgery residents 

Journal of Medical Systems: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine & ChatGPT: De-Tether the Physician 

Medicaid Policy

INQUIRY: How Will Medicaid Work Requirements Affect American Healthcare? A Look at What Past and Present Policy Tells Us 

Orange County Register: California is robbing America’s poor to fund Medicaid for its rich 

The Mercatus Center: Traumatic Brain Injury: A Case Study in Failed Incentives to Address the Needs of Medicaid Patients in California 

Washington Examiner: To promote health, policymakers must promote work 

The Hill: How Medicaid Mission Creep Undermines Real Health Care 

World Neurosurgery: Predictors of Extreme Hospital Length of Stay After Traumatic Brain Injury 

World Neurosurgery: Inferior Clinical Outcomes for Patients with Medicaid Insurance After Surgery for Degenerative Lumbar Spondylolisthesis: A Prospective Registry Analysis of 608 Patients 

Inquiry: Competition in California’s Medi-Cal Managed Care Market Assessed by Herfindahl-Hirschman Index 

Access to care

The Hill: How ‘overlapping’ surgery helps patients 

The Hill: Brain Injury Patients are Getting Trapped in the System: How to Help

Neurosurgery: Commentary - Association Between Neighborhood-Level Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Patient-Reported Outcomes in Lumbar Spine Surgery 

Doximity Op-(M)Ed: Further Evidence That Overlapping Surgeries Allow Patients to be Seen and Discharged Quicker 

The American Spectator: A Safe & Smart Way to Fix COVID-Related Backlogs 

Healthcare Consolidation

JAMA Health Forum - Reforming 340B to Serve the Interests of Patients, Not Institutions 

Health Affairs - Increasing Transparency In The 340B And Medicaid Drug Rebate Programs 

US Senate RFI - Request for Information - Feedback on the 340B Program 

The Hill: Health care cronyism is fueling hospital consolidation and rising medical costs 

Health Affairs Forefront: 340B - Good intentions in need of reform 

Sensible Medicine: 340B - A Regulation Driving Healthcare Costs & Harming Patients 

The American Spectator: Perverse Health-Care Incentives Endanger Spine Patients 

Neurosurgery: Commentary - An Analysis of Medicare Reimbursement for Neurosurgeon Office Visits: 2010 Compared to 2018 

Neurosurgery: Is the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Hierarchical Condition Category Risk Adjustment Model Satisfactory for Quantifying Risk After Spine Surgery? 

California Association of neurological surgeons series on economics