Heidi Allen
@prof-heidiallen.bsky.social
Associate Professor at Columbia University, ❤️ Medicaid and all things health policy. Psychedelic Assisted Therapy.
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Follow the link for advice on what to do if your doctor is suddenly out-of-network, including from Professor Jason Buxbaum. He examined 3,714 hospitals across the US and found that most disputes between hospitals and insurance companies are ultimately resolved.
Out-of-network and on your own? What to do if your insurer drops your doctors
Patients sometimes find themselves scrambling for affordable care when their insurer and hospital get into a contract dispute. Here are six things to know if that happens to you.
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October 27, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Follow the link for advice on what to do if your doctor is suddenly out-of-network, including from Professor Jason Buxbaum. He examined 3,714 hospitals across the US and found that most disputes between hospitals and insurance companies are ultimately resolved.
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"The fact that it still went though…was a real sense of disconnect with what our legislators are doing and what we as a health care community feel like is the reality on the ground." www.npr.org/sections/sho... #Medicaid #OBBBA #healthpolicy
In the rural South where Medicaid has been a lifeline, residents brace for cuts
With Medicaid cutbacks on the horizon, millions in the U.S. are expected to go uninsured. In the Mississippi Delta region — one of the poorest places in the U.S. — people are stressed and mad.
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October 27, 2025 at 2:22 PM
"The fact that it still went though…was a real sense of disconnect with what our legislators are doing and what we as a health care community feel like is the reality on the ground." www.npr.org/sections/sho... #Medicaid #OBBBA #healthpolicy
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Rising health care prices continue to challenge affordability and access. This recap covers insights from NASHP’s annual conference, featuring strategies from Rhode Island, Indiana, Colorado, Oklahoma, North Carolina & Connecticut.
Review the blog post loom.ly/-XLt-4k
#HealthPolicy #Affordability
Review the blog post loom.ly/-XLt-4k
#HealthPolicy #Affordability
October 28, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Rising health care prices continue to challenge affordability and access. This recap covers insights from NASHP’s annual conference, featuring strategies from Rhode Island, Indiana, Colorado, Oklahoma, North Carolina & Connecticut.
Review the blog post loom.ly/-XLt-4k
#HealthPolicy #Affordability
Review the blog post loom.ly/-XLt-4k
#HealthPolicy #Affordability
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New FDA CDER director George Tidmarsh had some pretty interesting remarks at BIO's patient advocacy event yesterday. He pushed industry to up their standards, called for review of surrogate endpoints in accelerated approval, & no crossover in cancer trials... #healthpolicy
US FDA’s Tidmarsh: Marginal Treatments Do More Harm Than Good
Center for Drug Evaluation and Research Director George Tidmarsh's Oct. 27 remarks at BIO's Patient Advocacy Changemakers Event suggested FDA may be tougher on accelerated approvals under his watch.
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October 28, 2025 at 1:20 PM
New FDA CDER director George Tidmarsh had some pretty interesting remarks at BIO's patient advocacy event yesterday. He pushed industry to up their standards, called for review of surrogate endpoints in accelerated approval, & no crossover in cancer trials... #healthpolicy
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A #publichealth disaster unlike anything we've seen.
In a First, Trump and GOP-Led Congress Prepare To Swell Ranks of U.S. Uninsured kffhealthnews.org/MjA1MTc2OQ by @samuelwhitehead.bsky.social via @kffhealthnews.org CC: @prof-heidiallen.bsky.social @mfcannon.bsky.social @aaronecarroll.bsky.social
In a First, Trump and GOP-Led Congress Prepare To Swell Ranks of U.S. Uninsured kffhealthnews.org/MjA1MTc2OQ by @samuelwhitehead.bsky.social via @kffhealthnews.org CC: @prof-heidiallen.bsky.social @mfcannon.bsky.social @aaronecarroll.bsky.social
In a First, Trump and GOP-Led Congress Prepare To Swell Ranks of U.S. Uninsured - KFF Health News
Fewer Americans will likely have health insurance, compromising their physical and financial health, as the Trump administration and GOP-controlled Congress weigh major changes to the Affordable Care…
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July 9, 2025 at 11:31 PM
A #publichealth disaster unlike anything we've seen.
In a First, Trump and GOP-Led Congress Prepare To Swell Ranks of U.S. Uninsured kffhealthnews.org/MjA1MTc2OQ by @samuelwhitehead.bsky.social via @kffhealthnews.org CC: @prof-heidiallen.bsky.social @mfcannon.bsky.social @aaronecarroll.bsky.social
In a First, Trump and GOP-Led Congress Prepare To Swell Ranks of U.S. Uninsured kffhealthnews.org/MjA1MTc2OQ by @samuelwhitehead.bsky.social via @kffhealthnews.org CC: @prof-heidiallen.bsky.social @mfcannon.bsky.social @aaronecarroll.bsky.social
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“FQHCs are going to have a dramatic increase in volume of care,” said Gerard Anderson, a professor of health policy @ Johns Hopkins. “They’re going to be stretched even more thinly than they have been,” he added. “It’s going to be a nightmare.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/h... #Medicaid #healthpolicy
‘Medicaid Cut Me Off’: A Rural Health Center Faces New Pressures
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October 22, 2025 at 5:44 PM
“FQHCs are going to have a dramatic increase in volume of care,” said Gerard Anderson, a professor of health policy @ Johns Hopkins. “They’re going to be stretched even more thinly than they have been,” he added. “It’s going to be a nightmare.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/h... #Medicaid #healthpolicy
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New research in the 'Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine' reveals that #MentalHealth patients face 120% longer emergency department boarding times than non-mental health patients—highlighting urgent inequities in care and resource allocation. bit.ly/4owCr0l 🩺📊 @cjemonline.bsky.social #EMedsky 🧪
October 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
New research in the 'Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine' reveals that #MentalHealth patients face 120% longer emergency department boarding times than non-mental health patients—highlighting urgent inequities in care and resource allocation. bit.ly/4owCr0l 🩺📊 @cjemonline.bsky.social #EMedsky 🧪
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Really good overview of health insurance pricing. Basically, all health care is subsidized! And expensive! @sangerkatz.bsky.social #healthpolicy @reedabelson.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/u...
Obamacare Is Expensive. But So Is All Health Insurance.
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October 23, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Really good overview of health insurance pricing. Basically, all health care is subsidized! And expensive! @sangerkatz.bsky.social #healthpolicy @reedabelson.bsky.social
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Patient navigation helps people move through the health system, improving outcomes and cutting costs. But implementation is uneven.
It’s time to make patient navigation a standard part of person-centred care.
#HealthPolicy #PatientNavigation #HPP
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It’s time to make patient navigation a standard part of person-centred care.
#HealthPolicy #PatientNavigation #HPP
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Patient navigation: helping people through the health system maze
Patient navigation programmes expand access to best-practice care and improve health outcomes. But uneven implementation is limiting their impact.
www.healthpolicypartnership.com
October 24, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Patient navigation helps people move through the health system, improving outcomes and cutting costs. But implementation is uneven.
It’s time to make patient navigation a standard part of person-centred care.
#HealthPolicy #PatientNavigation #HPP
www.healthpolicypartnership.com/patient-navi...
It’s time to make patient navigation a standard part of person-centred care.
#HealthPolicy #PatientNavigation #HPP
www.healthpolicypartnership.com/patient-navi...
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We’re paying high premiums + tax/hidden subsidy via employer insurance. A universal system could reduce total spending while covering everyone. The evidence is not perfect — but strong enough that it deserves serious consideration.
October 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM
We’re paying high premiums + tax/hidden subsidy via employer insurance. A universal system could reduce total spending while covering everyone. The evidence is not perfect — but strong enough that it deserves serious consideration.
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Kevin Nguyen, Leesh Menard, @prof-heidiallen.bsky.social & Gilbert Gonzales examine the changing landscape of LGBTQ health politics/policy, including developments in LGBTQ health data collection & research, and the role of developments like marriage equality & ACA read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...
LGBTQ+ Health, Policy, and Politics: Advances, Challenges, and Potential Opportunities | Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law | Duke University Press
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October 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Kevin Nguyen, Leesh Menard, @prof-heidiallen.bsky.social & Gilbert Gonzales examine the changing landscape of LGBTQ health politics/policy, including developments in LGBTQ health data collection & research, and the role of developments like marriage equality & ACA read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...
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Great thread for Medicaid researchers using or considering using TMSIS 🧵
So glad to have have helped support this work!
#Medicaid #healthpolicy
So glad to have have helped support this work!
#Medicaid #healthpolicy
We are excited today to launch the T-MSIS Analytic Files (TAF) Analysis Reporting Checklist, which is designed to guide reporting of research using the TAF, the new generation Medicaid claims data.
See @jamahealthforum.com: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Links to resources in thread below ⬇️
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See @jamahealthforum.com: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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October 24, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Great thread for Medicaid researchers using or considering using TMSIS 🧵
So glad to have have helped support this work!
#Medicaid #healthpolicy
So glad to have have helped support this work!
#Medicaid #healthpolicy
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Opt-in apps/web-based tools will not be sufficient to reduce the anticipated loss of coverage expected when Medicaid work requirements are implemented. They also ignore areas with limited or no internet access.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/22/h... #Medicaid #healthpolicy
www.cnn.com/2025/10/22/h... #Medicaid #healthpolicy
Officials show little proof that new tech will help Medicaid enrollees meet work rules | CNN
The Trump administration says it’s developing a digital tool to help people prove they’re meeting new Medicaid work requirements. KFF Health News talked to officials from the two states running pilot ...
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October 24, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Opt-in apps/web-based tools will not be sufficient to reduce the anticipated loss of coverage expected when Medicaid work requirements are implemented. They also ignore areas with limited or no internet access.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/22/h... #Medicaid #healthpolicy
www.cnn.com/2025/10/22/h... #Medicaid #healthpolicy
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Great News from #Colorado! Their Prescription Drug Affordability Board (#PDAB) set an Upper Payment Limit on the expensive prescription medication, #Enbrel!
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#PrescriptionDrugPrices #AffordableRX #UpperPaymentLimit #Oregon #ORPol #OCAP #HealthPolicySky
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#PrescriptionDrugPrices #AffordableRX #UpperPaymentLimit #Oregon #ORPol #OCAP #HealthPolicySky
Colorado becomes first state to cap prescription drug prices, starting with Enbrel
Colorado makes history as first state to cap prescription drug prices, targeting Enbrel, used for several autoimmune conditions.
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October 6, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Great News from #Colorado! Their Prescription Drug Affordability Board (#PDAB) set an Upper Payment Limit on the expensive prescription medication, #Enbrel!
www.koaa.com/news/local-n...
#PrescriptionDrugPrices #AffordableRX #UpperPaymentLimit #Oregon #ORPol #OCAP #HealthPolicySky
www.koaa.com/news/local-n...
#PrescriptionDrugPrices #AffordableRX #UpperPaymentLimit #Oregon #ORPol #OCAP #HealthPolicySky
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The projected $911 billion reduction in federal Medicaid spending over the next decade puts immense pressure on states to reduce costs, disproportionately threatening coverage for people with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (I/DD).
October 7, 2025 at 12:06 PM
The projected $911 billion reduction in federal Medicaid spending over the next decade puts immense pressure on states to reduce costs, disproportionately threatening coverage for people with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (I/DD).
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The @commonwealthfund.org is now accepting applications for its Hospital Pricing Strategies Technical Assistance Program. States working on hospital pricing policies can receive expert support and join peer learning sessions. Apply by October 27. bit.ly/48TkmVJ #HealthPolicy #StatePolicy
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October 7, 2025 at 2:47 PM
The @commonwealthfund.org is now accepting applications for its Hospital Pricing Strategies Technical Assistance Program. States working on hospital pricing policies can receive expert support and join peer learning sessions. Apply by October 27. bit.ly/48TkmVJ #HealthPolicy #StatePolicy
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New resource from NAMD explains provider taxes and key HR 1/OBBBA changes - concise & easy to understand breakdown of a complex issue medicaiddirectors.org/resource/how... #Medicaid #healthpolicy
How Medicaid Provider Taxes Work: An Explainer - National Association of Medicaid Directors
This resource explains how Medicaid provider taxes work, why states use them, and the key changes made under OBBBA, providing context for the provider tax provisions highlighted in NAMD’s OBBBA Medica...
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September 29, 2025 at 6:55 PM
New resource from NAMD explains provider taxes and key HR 1/OBBBA changes - concise & easy to understand breakdown of a complex issue medicaiddirectors.org/resource/how... #Medicaid #healthpolicy
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For many years, the Clark Center at Chicago Booth has regularly surveyed leading economists to assess consensus on timely economic policy issues.
We are excited today to launch the Cornell Health Policy Insight Panel, where we extend that model to health policy.
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We are excited today to launch the Cornell Health Policy Insight Panel, where we extend that model to health policy.
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September 30, 2025 at 1:54 PM
For many years, the Clark Center at Chicago Booth has regularly surveyed leading economists to assess consensus on timely economic policy issues.
We are excited today to launch the Cornell Health Policy Insight Panel, where we extend that model to health policy.
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We are excited today to launch the Cornell Health Policy Insight Panel, where we extend that model to health policy.
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We’re LIVE! But there is still time to join “What the South Tells Us About Medicaid’s Future.” Hear Roy Mitchell, April Simpson & @acvollers.bsky.social on what policy shifts mean for access and equity. Join now: bit.ly/FutureofMedicaid
#webinar #Medicaid #HealthPolicy #Journalism
#webinar #Medicaid #HealthPolicy #Journalism
September 30, 2025 at 5:12 PM
We’re LIVE! But there is still time to join “What the South Tells Us About Medicaid’s Future.” Hear Roy Mitchell, April Simpson & @acvollers.bsky.social on what policy shifts mean for access and equity. Join now: bit.ly/FutureofMedicaid
#webinar #Medicaid #HealthPolicy #Journalism
#webinar #Medicaid #HealthPolicy #Journalism
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Flagging this new TFAH report for other health policy/politics syllabi-updaters
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September 24, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Flagging this new TFAH report for other health policy/politics syllabi-updaters
www.tfah.org/wp-content/u...
www.tfah.org/wp-content/u...
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Thread on highly inadequate and flawed "rural health transformation" fund intended to prevent rural hospitals from closing or cutting services/staff in face of draconian #Medicaid cuts in Senate reconciliation bill. Details from @punchbowlnews.bsky.social here (1/x): punchbowl.news/rural-health...
Rural Health Transformation Program - Punchbowl News
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June 25, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Thread on highly inadequate and flawed "rural health transformation" fund intended to prevent rural hospitals from closing or cutting services/staff in face of draconian #Medicaid cuts in Senate reconciliation bill. Details from @punchbowlnews.bsky.social here (1/x): punchbowl.news/rural-health...
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Wow, Zohran won the democratic primary 🔥 AND I have a new paper out today, which I argue is extremely on topic for our future mayor. We find cost and affordability were the most common reason for returning to work from postpartum leave. Let's get into it 🧵
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....
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University of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent
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June 25, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Wow, Zohran won the democratic primary 🔥 AND I have a new paper out today, which I argue is extremely on topic for our future mayor. We find cost and affordability were the most common reason for returning to work from postpartum leave. Let's get into it 🧵
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....
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Re-upping some 2019 analysis about challenges with safeguards intended to protect coverage for people with disabilities from losing #Medicaid coverage due to work and reporting requirements in Arkansas - it was very complex! www.kff.org/medicaid/iss...
May 16, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Re-upping some 2019 analysis about challenges with safeguards intended to protect coverage for people with disabilities from losing #Medicaid coverage due to work and reporting requirements in Arkansas - it was very complex! www.kff.org/medicaid/iss...
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Looking for state-level cost and coverage estimates of #Medicaid reductions in the E&C reconciliation bill? See new new analysis: www.kff.org/medicaid/iss...
State-Level Context for Federal Medicaid Cuts of $625 Billion and Enrollment Declines of 10.3 Million | KFF
Based on draft reconciliation language from the Energy & Commerce Committee, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released preliminary estimates showing proposed Medicaid changes would reduce federal...
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May 16, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Looking for state-level cost and coverage estimates of #Medicaid reductions in the E&C reconciliation bill? See new new analysis: www.kff.org/medicaid/iss...