Ben Schwartz, MD, MBA
@benschwartzmd.bsky.social
Orthopedic Surgeon with an interest in health tech and value-based care (however you choose to define it).
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The Wrong Unicorns
Presented by Commons Clinic
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February 17, 2025 at 8:17 PM
The latest edition of The Surgeon's Record.
Answers to reader submitted questions on healthcare accountability, profit v. profiteering, VBC strategy, and more!
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Answers to reader submitted questions on healthcare accountability, profit v. profiteering, VBC strategy, and more!
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Your Questions, Answered
Health care accountability, Profit vs. profiteering, VBC strategy, and more!
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January 22, 2025 at 10:40 PM
The latest edition of The Surgeon's Record.
Answers to reader submitted questions on healthcare accountability, profit v. profiteering, VBC strategy, and more!
#medsky
Answers to reader submitted questions on healthcare accountability, profit v. profiteering, VBC strategy, and more!
#medsky
Bump in MA payments, bump in hospital payments, decrease in physician payments.
Is the system fixed yet?
Is the system fixed yet?
January 14, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Bump in MA payments, bump in hospital payments, decrease in physician payments.
Is the system fixed yet?
Is the system fixed yet?
Mark Cuban, JP Morgan, and the Healthcare Puzzle: Building a System That Works
Building on @mcuban.bsky.social recent healthcare blog post, themes at JPM, and my recent keynote address on MSK VBC.
#medsky
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Building on @mcuban.bsky.social recent healthcare blog post, themes at JPM, and my recent keynote address on MSK VBC.
#medsky
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Mark Cuban, JP Morgan, and the Healthcare Puzzle: Building a System That Works
Presented by Commons Clinic
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January 13, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Mark Cuban, JP Morgan, and the Healthcare Puzzle: Building a System That Works
Building on @mcuban.bsky.social recent healthcare blog post, themes at JPM, and my recent keynote address on MSK VBC.
#medsky
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Building on @mcuban.bsky.social recent healthcare blog post, themes at JPM, and my recent keynote address on MSK VBC.
#medsky
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A conversation on VBC and healthcare innovation.
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Reframing Value in Healthcare: A Conversation on Innovation and Leadership
With Dr. Phil Louie of Measured Scalpel
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January 7, 2025 at 11:57 PM
A conversation on VBC and healthcare innovation.
#medsky #orthosky
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#medsky #orthosky
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Interesting year ahead as we enter the next phase of digital health and healthcare innovation.
2025 is the year the rubber meets the road.
2025 is the year the rubber meets the road.
Top executives at Omada, Transcarent, Hinge Health, and Maven Clinic reflect on the year that passed, and the year ahead for their companies.
Four digital health unicorns on what they expect in 2025
Top executives at Omada, Transcarent, Hinge Health and Maven Clinic reflect on the year that passed, and the year ahead for their companies.
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December 31, 2024 at 8:38 PM
Interesting year ahead as we enter the next phase of digital health and healthcare innovation.
2025 is the year the rubber meets the road.
2025 is the year the rubber meets the road.
🚨 Prediction Post Alert! 🚨
Year of the Wood Snake
Transformation.
Wisdom.
Calculated risk.
#medsky
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Year of the Wood Snake
Transformation.
Wisdom.
Calculated risk.
#medsky
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2025, The Year of the Wood Snake: 7 Unconventional Healthcare Predictions
Transformation, wisdom, calculated risk
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December 31, 2024 at 12:05 AM
🚨 Prediction Post Alert! 🚨
Year of the Wood Snake
Transformation.
Wisdom.
Calculated risk.
#medsky
thesurgeonsrecord.substack.com/p/2025-the-y...
Year of the Wood Snake
Transformation.
Wisdom.
Calculated risk.
#medsky
thesurgeonsrecord.substack.com/p/2025-the-y...
Strong work Ed. The cult of personality is not new, but leveraging it to manipulate people has reached new levels. I hope we move toward a future where personal brands are more authentic and less manipulative.
December 22, 2024 at 9:05 PM
Strong work Ed. The cult of personality is not new, but leveraging it to manipulate people has reached new levels. I hope we move toward a future where personal brands are more authentic and less manipulative.
🚨The Surgeon's Record Guest post alert! 🚨
This week the excellent @grahamwalker.bsky.social tackles the complex issue of physician compensation. It's a nuanced look at a complicated topic.
Thanks Graham! 👇
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This week the excellent @grahamwalker.bsky.social tackles the complex issue of physician compensation. It's a nuanced look at a complicated topic.
Thanks Graham! 👇
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Guest Post: Are Physicians' Salaries Overvalued, Undervalued, or Just Right?
By Graham Walker, MD, Co-Founder of Offcall
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December 17, 2024 at 4:33 PM
🚨The Surgeon's Record Guest post alert! 🚨
This week the excellent @grahamwalker.bsky.social tackles the complex issue of physician compensation. It's a nuanced look at a complicated topic.
Thanks Graham! 👇
thesurgeonsrecord.substack.com/p/guest-post...
#medsky
This week the excellent @grahamwalker.bsky.social tackles the complex issue of physician compensation. It's a nuanced look at a complicated topic.
Thanks Graham! 👇
thesurgeonsrecord.substack.com/p/guest-post...
#medsky
Distrust is a huge issue. There should be checks and balances, but the motives have to be transparent.
December 13, 2024 at 9:19 PM
Distrust is a huge issue. There should be checks and balances, but the motives have to be transparent.
It's obvious that everyone is frustrated with the status quo. Payers could start by taking a much more collaborative stance with patients and healthcare providers instead of an adversarial one.
Want to fix things? Stop the games, and come to the table on real solutions.
Want to fix things? Stop the games, and come to the table on real solutions.
December 13, 2024 at 8:26 PM
It's obvious that everyone is frustrated with the status quo. Payers could start by taking a much more collaborative stance with patients and healthcare providers instead of an adversarial one.
Want to fix things? Stop the games, and come to the table on real solutions.
Want to fix things? Stop the games, and come to the table on real solutions.
Also interesting that you mention how capital has been beating labor. This speaks to the angst and frustrations felt by many physicians (78% employed now) and other frontline healthcare workers. The pendulum is set to swing in the other direction in medicine too IMO.
December 13, 2024 at 8:20 PM
Also interesting that you mention how capital has been beating labor. This speaks to the angst and frustrations felt by many physicians (78% employed now) and other frontline healthcare workers. The pendulum is set to swing in the other direction in medicine too IMO.
Plenty of examples of the govt's healthcare struggles (the VA system, Medicare Advantage, CMMI, Medicare solvency, etc.)
Healthcare will be best solved the way we solve other difficult problems in the US -- by smart, driven innovators and those with the means and vision to support them.
Healthcare will be best solved the way we solve other difficult problems in the US -- by smart, driven innovators and those with the means and vision to support them.
December 13, 2024 at 8:20 PM
Plenty of examples of the govt's healthcare struggles (the VA system, Medicare Advantage, CMMI, Medicare solvency, etc.)
Healthcare will be best solved the way we solve other difficult problems in the US -- by smart, driven innovators and those with the means and vision to support them.
Healthcare will be best solved the way we solve other difficult problems in the US -- by smart, driven innovators and those with the means and vision to support them.
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Appreciate your take on healthcare on today's @pivotpod.bsky.social episode. Interesting that on the one hand you (rightfully) call out politicians (the govt) for being complicit in the mess but on the other hand advocate for Medicare for All.
Appreciate your take on healthcare on today's @pivotpod.bsky.social episode. Interesting that on the one hand you (rightfully) call out politicians (the govt) for being complicit in the mess but on the other hand advocate for Medicare for All.
December 13, 2024 at 8:20 PM
@profgalloway.com
Appreciate your take on healthcare on today's @pivotpod.bsky.social episode. Interesting that on the one hand you (rightfully) call out politicians (the govt) for being complicit in the mess but on the other hand advocate for Medicare for All.
Appreciate your take on healthcare on today's @pivotpod.bsky.social episode. Interesting that on the one hand you (rightfully) call out politicians (the govt) for being complicit in the mess but on the other hand advocate for Medicare for All.
There's a lot wrong with healthcare, but the doom loop discussions make it seem like we can't get anything right. Those of us who show up on the frontlines every day know this isn't true. There's a lot we do get right, we just don't hear nearly enough about these stories.
December 13, 2024 at 1:15 AM
There's a lot wrong with healthcare, but the doom loop discussions make it seem like we can't get anything right. Those of us who show up on the frontlines every day know this isn't true. There's a lot we do get right, we just don't hear nearly enough about these stories.
Of course we're dictators, those op notes aren't going to write themselves!
December 11, 2024 at 10:21 PM
Of course we're dictators, those op notes aren't going to write themselves!
EMRs perpetuate the problem by leading to overdocumentation or misclassification of these events. The label follows the patient throughout the healthcare system. Once the "allergy" is attached to the patient, it's very difficult to reverse.
It's about time we addressed this problem.
#medsky
It's about time we addressed this problem.
#medsky
December 10, 2024 at 3:46 PM
EMRs perpetuate the problem by leading to overdocumentation or misclassification of these events. The label follows the patient throughout the healthcare system. Once the "allergy" is attached to the patient, it's very difficult to reverse.
It's about time we addressed this problem.
#medsky
It's about time we addressed this problem.
#medsky
Adverse reactions and side effects labeled as allergies are a hidden and increasingly pervasive reason for substandard care.
Patients may be unnecessarily excluded from receiving entire classes of medications, leading to the use of less effective alternatives.
Patients may be unnecessarily excluded from receiving entire classes of medications, leading to the use of less effective alternatives.
December 10, 2024 at 3:46 PM
Adverse reactions and side effects labeled as allergies are a hidden and increasingly pervasive reason for substandard care.
Patients may be unnecessarily excluded from receiving entire classes of medications, leading to the use of less effective alternatives.
Patients may be unnecessarily excluded from receiving entire classes of medications, leading to the use of less effective alternatives.
Enjoyed your recent post on current state of digital health unicorns!
December 3, 2024 at 8:17 PM
Enjoyed your recent post on current state of digital health unicorns!
Thoughts on the two biggest obstacles to healthcare reform: misaligned incentives and entrenched payment models.
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Postprandial Healthcare Musings
Who needs ketamine when you have tryptophan?
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December 3, 2024 at 4:05 PM
Thoughts on the two biggest obstacles to healthcare reform: misaligned incentives and entrenched payment models.
#medsky
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#medsky
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The most worrisome healthcare grifters aren't the ones selling obvious snake oil and quick fixes, they're the ones using degrees and credentials to disguise ulterior motives as insight.
They pass themselves off as legit experts, but it's always a good idea to dig a little deeper.
They pass themselves off as legit experts, but it's always a good idea to dig a little deeper.
November 30, 2024 at 4:49 PM
The most worrisome healthcare grifters aren't the ones selling obvious snake oil and quick fixes, they're the ones using degrees and credentials to disguise ulterior motives as insight.
They pass themselves off as legit experts, but it's always a good idea to dig a little deeper.
They pass themselves off as legit experts, but it's always a good idea to dig a little deeper.
Innovation in healthcare is critical, but it works best when built in partnership with practicing clinicians—enhancing their work, not replacing or criticizing it. Medicine is built on trust. Let's keep that in mind as we build towards lasting solutions.
November 30, 2024 at 1:47 AM
Innovation in healthcare is critical, but it works best when built in partnership with practicing clinicians—enhancing their work, not replacing or criticizing it. Medicine is built on trust. Let's keep that in mind as we build towards lasting solutions.
Such perspectives are often false narratives framed as insight. They're provocative and pander to the angst many feel toward the system. No one would deny we have problems. There's no point in glossing them over. But we need well-reasoned solutions built on firsthand experience.
November 30, 2024 at 1:47 AM
Such perspectives are often false narratives framed as insight. They're provocative and pander to the angst many feel toward the system. No one would deny we have problems. There's no point in glossing them over. But we need well-reasoned solutions built on firsthand experience.
It’s particularly troubling when these perspectives are tied to ulterior motives, like promoting a product or company. Underinformed critiques of the profession, especially from those who haven't experienced the frontlines, risk undermining trust in clinicians.
November 30, 2024 at 1:47 AM
It’s particularly troubling when these perspectives are tied to ulterior motives, like promoting a product or company. Underinformed critiques of the profession, especially from those who haven't experienced the frontlines, risk undermining trust in clinicians.