mwfriedberg.bsky.social
@mwfriedberg.bsky.social
SVP, Performance Measurement & Improvement, BCBSMA. Recovering health services researcher. General internist.
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We hope you can join us & @pennchibe.bsky.social for a virtual keynote presentation from Amy Finkelstein about rethinking common inferences in healthcare.
Wednesday 10/29 at 12 PM ET. Register here: https://bit.ly/3VIvfC2
Wednesday 10/29 at 12 PM ET. Register here: https://bit.ly/3VIvfC2
October 24, 2025 at 3:55 PM
We hope you can join us & @pennchibe.bsky.social for a virtual keynote presentation from Amy Finkelstein about rethinking common inferences in healthcare.
Wednesday 10/29 at 12 PM ET. Register here: https://bit.ly/3VIvfC2
Wednesday 10/29 at 12 PM ET. Register here: https://bit.ly/3VIvfC2
Predictive model teaching slides
October 20, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Predictive model teaching slides
Welp. I suppose this is comforting
Bottom line: all is not lost. Even if perfect containment is impossible, layered safeguards grounded in computation, information theory, and thermodynamics could likely give humanity time and tools to respond to even threats from a superintelligent AI adversary. (3/3)
October 13, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Welp. I suppose this is comforting
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Friends don't let friends give preregistration a bad name. Exploratory findings are fine; you just have to label them!
Love it when you 1) do a proper preregistration, 2) find an unexpected finding in the course of examining your preregistered hypotheses, 3) present the unexpected finding as exploratory, and 4) a reviewer HAMMERS you for "undermining the integrity of the preregistration process?" 🫠
September 12, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Friends don't let friends give preregistration a bad name. Exploratory findings are fine; you just have to label them!
Not a fan of any disease that begins “new world”
August 26, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Not a fan of any disease that begins “new world”
Proposition: Hearing the words “best practice” is a near-perfect indicator of terrible decision making.
August 13, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Proposition: Hearing the words “best practice” is a near-perfect indicator of terrible decision making.
My fealty to the leader who will stop the spam
The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand:
$678M raised through those spam tactics
$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.
$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)
The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.
$678M raised through those spam tactics
$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.
$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)
The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.
The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine
How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.
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August 4, 2025 at 12:23 PM
My fealty to the leader who will stop the spam
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Serious concerns about a new cortical biomarker for pain sensitivity
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We (with @tspisak.bsky.social, @christianbuchel.bsky.social) published a commentary on Chowdhury, Bi et al. (2025, JAMA Neurology) raising serious concerns about their reported results.
👇 1/13
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We (with @tspisak.bsky.social, @christianbuchel.bsky.social) published a commentary on Chowdhury, Bi et al. (2025, JAMA Neurology) raising serious concerns about their reported results.
👇 1/13
Concern About Predictive Performance of a Pain Sensitivity Biomarker
To the Editor Chowdhury et al1 evaluated a biomarker for pain sensitivity, combining peak alpha frequency and corticomotor excitability. The authors report outstanding performance (validation set area...
jamanetwork.com
July 22, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Serious concerns about a new cortical biomarker for pain sensitivity
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
We (with @tspisak.bsky.social, @christianbuchel.bsky.social) published a commentary on Chowdhury, Bi et al. (2025, JAMA Neurology) raising serious concerns about their reported results.
👇 1/13
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
We (with @tspisak.bsky.social, @christianbuchel.bsky.social) published a commentary on Chowdhury, Bi et al. (2025, JAMA Neurology) raising serious concerns about their reported results.
👇 1/13
Kinda misleading headline, but article covers some very important proposed changes to the role of the RUC and other aspects of RBRVS.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/u...
An Attack on the Medical Establishment Buried in an 1,800-Page Regulation
www.nytimes.com
July 21, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Kinda misleading headline, but article covers some very important proposed changes to the role of the RUC and other aspects of RBRVS.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/u...
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Ma’am, would you like several fiddly tests whose results about 1% of the medical community can interpret correctly followed by *maybe* a surgery or would you like a once a day pill that will probably sort things?
July 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Ma’am, would you like several fiddly tests whose results about 1% of the medical community can interpret correctly followed by *maybe* a surgery or would you like a once a day pill that will probably sort things?
Yesssss. I cannot describe my satisfaction with this post.
July 18, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Yesssss. I cannot describe my satisfaction with this post.
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Time for your yearly reminder that “We need less research, better research, and research done for the right reasons”. #OTD 1948 Douglas Altman b (d 3 June 2018) “One of the most influential medical statisticians of the past 50 years” he led reforms in medical research reliability & reporting. 1/3
July 12, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Time for your yearly reminder that “We need less research, better research, and research done for the right reasons”. #OTD 1948 Douglas Altman b (d 3 June 2018) “One of the most influential medical statisticians of the past 50 years” he led reforms in medical research reliability & reporting. 1/3
Mandatory reading for health services researchers: recent BCBSMA Foundation primer on Medicaid provider taxes www.bluecrossmafoundation.org/about-us/new...
This has to be one of the most important aspects of Medicaid policy that almost nobody knows about. Critical to interpreting Medicaid spending
This has to be one of the most important aspects of Medicaid policy that almost nobody knows about. Critical to interpreting Medicaid spending
BCBSMA Foundation Report Highlights Impact of ‘Provider Tax’ on MassHealth Program | Welcome to Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
www.bluecrossmafoundation.org
June 5, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Mandatory reading for health services researchers: recent BCBSMA Foundation primer on Medicaid provider taxes www.bluecrossmafoundation.org/about-us/new...
This has to be one of the most important aspects of Medicaid policy that almost nobody knows about. Critical to interpreting Medicaid spending
This has to be one of the most important aspects of Medicaid policy that almost nobody knows about. Critical to interpreting Medicaid spending
Universal issue: if you increase the returns to gaming… www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/b...
Trade Crime Is Soaring, U.S. Firms Say, as Trump’s Tariffs Incentivize Fraud
www.nytimes.com
May 28, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Universal issue: if you increase the returns to gaming… www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/b...
Attention health services researchers: funding opportunity here
NIHCM NEWS 🚨: The NIHCM Foundation is now accepting letters of inquiry for the 2025 - 2026 funding cycle of the #NIHCM Research Grant program! Apply today: bit.ly/NIHCMres
@stanfordmedicine.bsky.social @upenn.edu @kbjohnsonmd.bsky.social @natbiomedeng.nature.com @futurehealthj.bsky.social
@stanfordmedicine.bsky.social @upenn.edu @kbjohnsonmd.bsky.social @natbiomedeng.nature.com @futurehealthj.bsky.social
May 22, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Attention health services researchers: funding opportunity here
Outstanding AI. Honored.
May 22, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Outstanding AI. Honored.
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In 1989, New York City and its unions temporarily replaced utilization review with sham review for half the participants in the city's health insurance plan. Utilization review had happened before nonemergent hospitalization and ambulatory surgery. Treatment status was blinded. What happened? ...
April 11, 2025 at 3:24 PM
In 1989, New York City and its unions temporarily replaced utilization review with sham review for half the participants in the city's health insurance plan. Utilization review had happened before nonemergent hospitalization and ambulatory surgery. Treatment status was blinded. What happened? ...
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March 24, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Hello friends - Denver Health is actively seeking a qualified candidate for the position of Chief Quality Officer.
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Chief Quality Officer
We are recruiting for a motivated Chief Quality Officer to join our team! We are here for life’s journey. Where is your life journey taking you? Being the heartbeat of Denver means our heart reflects ...
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March 4, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Hello friends - Denver Health is actively seeking a qualified candidate for the position of Chief Quality Officer.
denverhealth.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/DHHA-Main/jo...
denverhealth.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/DHHA-Main/jo...
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I learned a new term today: rollup. When an outside investor consecutively acquires many of the small firms in a local market and consolidates them.
When this occurs with anesthesia practices, prices increase by 18%.
I'm paraphrasing an NBER summary of this paper: www.nber.org/papers/w33217
When this occurs with anesthesia practices, prices increase by 18%.
I'm paraphrasing an NBER summary of this paper: www.nber.org/papers/w33217
March 3, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I learned a new term today: rollup. When an outside investor consecutively acquires many of the small firms in a local market and consolidates them.
When this occurs with anesthesia practices, prices increase by 18%.
I'm paraphrasing an NBER summary of this paper: www.nber.org/papers/w33217
When this occurs with anesthesia practices, prices increase by 18%.
I'm paraphrasing an NBER summary of this paper: www.nber.org/papers/w33217
Now live: Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts’ 5th annual health equity report www.bluecrossma.org/myblue/equit...
We publish these ~70 metrics every year to be transparent and accountable to our members, accounts, providers, and communities we serve.
We publish these ~70 metrics every year to be transparent and accountable to our members, accounts, providers, and communities we serve.
Health Equity Report | Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
www.bluecrossma.org
January 19, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Now live: Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts’ 5th annual health equity report www.bluecrossma.org/myblue/equit...
We publish these ~70 metrics every year to be transparent and accountable to our members, accounts, providers, and communities we serve.
We publish these ~70 metrics every year to be transparent and accountable to our members, accounts, providers, and communities we serve.
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HHS announces the next 15 drugs to negotiate under Part D! Great to see this progress. Quite a few cancer treatments, which will mean more savings potential than in the first year's drug list (cancer drugs get limited or no rebates today). Good news for taxpayers and Medicare spending!
www.hhs.gov
January 17, 2025 at 1:20 PM
HHS announces the next 15 drugs to negotiate under Part D! Great to see this progress. Quite a few cancer treatments, which will mean more savings potential than in the first year's drug list (cancer drugs get limited or no rebates today). Good news for taxpayers and Medicare spending!
New iOS email folder design is interesting. Anybody know if you can train this thing to block all political fundraising emails? Same for text messages. That’s my #1 priority.
January 14, 2025 at 1:40 PM
New iOS email folder design is interesting. Anybody know if you can train this thing to block all political fundraising emails? Same for text messages. That’s my #1 priority.
Assigning (well, inviting 😉) some manuscripts to reviewers tonight.
Methods point: If reviewers are rated and sorted on a 6-point scale (higher=better) for the quality of their reviews, why do I almost always prefer a 5.8 reviewer to a 6.0 reviewer?
Methods point: If reviewers are rated and sorted on a 6-point scale (higher=better) for the quality of their reviews, why do I almost always prefer a 5.8 reviewer to a 6.0 reviewer?
December 28, 2024 at 1:47 AM
Assigning (well, inviting 😉) some manuscripts to reviewers tonight.
Methods point: If reviewers are rated and sorted on a 6-point scale (higher=better) for the quality of their reviews, why do I almost always prefer a 5.8 reviewer to a 6.0 reviewer?
Methods point: If reviewers are rated and sorted on a 6-point scale (higher=better) for the quality of their reviews, why do I almost always prefer a 5.8 reviewer to a 6.0 reviewer?