Anil Makam
anilmakam.bsky.social
Anil Makam
@anilmakam.bsky.social
UCSF Hospital Medicine Physician Scientist at SFGH. Think about evidence, clinical medicine, outcomes, health services, policy. https://hopelab.ucsf.edu/people/anil-makam-md
You misspelled clueless
October 3, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Agree for commercial insurance or Medicare

Too expensive within Medicaid
April 28, 2025 at 2:43 AM
If there is one clinical driver of practice and it's not accounted for in any analysis I can't in any confidence trust the observational comparative effectiveness

Other than the rate of ODS is very very low which is most important part of evidence base
April 26, 2025 at 6:32 PM
No, it does

It's just pseudo random but may correlate with other practice patterns and serve as a marker
April 26, 2025 at 6:27 PM
FWIW I do fast correction for most

And if they live in low 120s from chronic badness I don't bother fixing it unless underlying issues fixable
April 26, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Remains the sole clinical driver of speed

Rest is practice variation

Can't omit it and trust evidence at all
April 26, 2025 at 6:11 PM
None of these adjust for chronicity

It's the major confounded here between an acute episodic thing vs chronic badness
April 26, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Copied from my Twitter thread:

NOW WHAT?

removing restrictions would improve access w/o step therapy (which makes no sense here) or prior auth

But $$$ is a real concern

Here is our pitch why may be less of an issue in Medicaid

AND

Restricting DPP4i instead of GLP/SGLT can offset some costs
April 23, 2025 at 9:11 PM
This was inspired by an amazing study that I did a very popular Twitter thread on

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February 5, 2025 at 9:09 PM