Tim Levengood
@tim-levengood.bsky.social
PhD Candidate / health services research | Boston University | improving LGBTQ+ access to care and reducing syndemic SUD HIV disparities | 🏳️🌈 ATLien | he/him
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Late Wed., Sen. Amy Klobuchar told us there is bipartisan support for AI rules and bipartisan oppo to the moratorium:
“By preventing cities and states from protecting renters and allowing landlords to leverage AI to collude, House Republicans would raise rents even more while reducing competition."
“By preventing cities and states from protecting renters and allowing landlords to leverage AI to collude, House Republicans would raise rents even more while reducing competition."
To read more about how RealPage has shaped the nation’s rental markets, read our “Rent Barons” series here: www.propublica.org/series/rent-...
Rent Barons
Powerful interests, including a real estate tech company and private equity firms, are contributing to soaring rents.
www.propublica.org
May 29, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Late Wed., Sen. Amy Klobuchar told us there is bipartisan support for AI rules and bipartisan oppo to the moratorium:
“By preventing cities and states from protecting renters and allowing landlords to leverage AI to collude, House Republicans would raise rents even more while reducing competition."
“By preventing cities and states from protecting renters and allowing landlords to leverage AI to collude, House Republicans would raise rents even more while reducing competition."
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In the search for spending savings, House Republicans could've gone after overpayments to insurers & hospitals in Medicare.
Instead, they singled out people w/ the lowest incomes for the lion's share of cuts.
Then re-directed that $$ mainly for more high-income tax cuts.
Instead, they singled out people w/ the lowest incomes for the lion's share of cuts.
Then re-directed that $$ mainly for more high-income tax cuts.
May 23, 2025 at 1:51 PM
In the search for spending savings, House Republicans could've gone after overpayments to insurers & hospitals in Medicare.
Instead, they singled out people w/ the lowest incomes for the lion's share of cuts.
Then re-directed that $$ mainly for more high-income tax cuts.
Instead, they singled out people w/ the lowest incomes for the lion's share of cuts.
Then re-directed that $$ mainly for more high-income tax cuts.
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The original House bill would have led to about 10 million more uninsured people, according to CBO. The amended version that passed would lead to more people losing health insurance. If this bill gets enacted, it would represent the biggest rollback in federal support for health care ever.
May 22, 2025 at 1:48 PM
The original House bill would have led to about 10 million more uninsured people, according to CBO. The amended version that passed would lead to more people losing health insurance. If this bill gets enacted, it would represent the biggest rollback in federal support for health care ever.
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Farce of a process, disaster of a bill
May 22, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Farce of a process, disaster of a bill
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Join ISGMH on May 22 for our annual Postdoctoral Fellow Showcase!
This year’s event features exciting LGBTQ health research presentations from 5 postdocs: Emily Esposito, John Guigayoma, @tim-levengood.bsky.social, @jonathanlpzmts.bsky.social, and Mariajosé Paton.
Register today: buff.ly/rUSA6Yh
This year’s event features exciting LGBTQ health research presentations from 5 postdocs: Emily Esposito, John Guigayoma, @tim-levengood.bsky.social, @jonathanlpzmts.bsky.social, and Mariajosé Paton.
Register today: buff.ly/rUSA6Yh
May 15, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Join ISGMH on May 22 for our annual Postdoctoral Fellow Showcase!
This year’s event features exciting LGBTQ health research presentations from 5 postdocs: Emily Esposito, John Guigayoma, @tim-levengood.bsky.social, @jonathanlpzmts.bsky.social, and Mariajosé Paton.
Register today: buff.ly/rUSA6Yh
This year’s event features exciting LGBTQ health research presentations from 5 postdocs: Emily Esposito, John Guigayoma, @tim-levengood.bsky.social, @jonathanlpzmts.bsky.social, and Mariajosé Paton.
Register today: buff.ly/rUSA6Yh
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Are you a health equity researcher who has lost federal funding for a project?
RWJF’s Evidence for Action is offering Rapid Response grants to support community-centered, social science research disrupted by cuts. ☀️
More details: www.rwjf.org/en/grants/ac...
RWJF’s Evidence for Action is offering Rapid Response grants to support community-centered, social science research disrupted by cuts. ☀️
More details: www.rwjf.org/en/grants/ac...
Research to Advanced Racial and Indigenous Health Equity
We seek to build an actionable body of evidence to construct fair systems that determine resource distribution and support health equity. Deadlines: Rapid Response brief proposal 5/28/25; New Research...
www.rwjf.org
April 23, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Are you a health equity researcher who has lost federal funding for a project?
RWJF’s Evidence for Action is offering Rapid Response grants to support community-centered, social science research disrupted by cuts. ☀️
More details: www.rwjf.org/en/grants/ac...
RWJF’s Evidence for Action is offering Rapid Response grants to support community-centered, social science research disrupted by cuts. ☀️
More details: www.rwjf.org/en/grants/ac...
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This isn't about saving money: the program costs just a fraction of the dept's budget.
This isn't about making Americans healthier: over 2k people use the service every day.
This is about scoring cheap political points by taking advantage of some of the most vulnerable members of society.
This isn't about making Americans healthier: over 2k people use the service every day.
This is about scoring cheap political points by taking advantage of some of the most vulnerable members of society.
The federal government plans to eliminate services for LGBTQ youth who call 988, the national suicide and crisis hotline, according to a Health and Human Services budget draft leaked last week.
HHS plans to cut the national suicide hotline’s program for LGBTQ youth
In February, the program received an average of 2,100 contacts per day.
www.motherjones.com
April 23, 2025 at 3:34 PM
This isn't about saving money: the program costs just a fraction of the dept's budget.
This isn't about making Americans healthier: over 2k people use the service every day.
This is about scoring cheap political points by taking advantage of some of the most vulnerable members of society.
This isn't about making Americans healthier: over 2k people use the service every day.
This is about scoring cheap political points by taking advantage of some of the most vulnerable members of society.
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Speaking in Utah today, Secy Kennedy called for end of water fluoridation. An HHS official now tells us they're
"directing the CDC to reconvene the Community Preventative Services Task Force to study and make a new recommendation on fluoride"
tinalexander.github.io/notes/2025/0...
"directing the CDC to reconvene the Community Preventative Services Task Force to study and make a new recommendation on fluoride"
tinalexander.github.io/notes/2025/0...
April 8, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Speaking in Utah today, Secy Kennedy called for end of water fluoridation. An HHS official now tells us they're
"directing the CDC to reconvene the Community Preventative Services Task Force to study and make a new recommendation on fluoride"
tinalexander.github.io/notes/2025/0...
"directing the CDC to reconvene the Community Preventative Services Task Force to study and make a new recommendation on fluoride"
tinalexander.github.io/notes/2025/0...
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👇🎯 The public isn't going to understand this, unless the presidents of R1 universities around the country <loudly> & <collectively> get out into the public square & start explaining this & calling out the existential threat to the entire 🇺🇸 university system. The silence is deafening right now.
The public really needs to understand this. Every university system in the world rests on public funding, there has never been an alternative model at any time in history.
We have universities for literally the same reason that we have roads and armies.
We have universities for literally the same reason that we have roads and armies.
I don't disagree that the US university business model was/is fragile, but surely not for this reason?
There is no society in the history of humanity that has successfully built a good university system without massive govt subsidies. US had already pushed the idea very far.
There is no society in the history of humanity that has successfully built a good university system without massive govt subsidies. US had already pushed the idea very far.
March 8, 2025 at 8:45 PM
👇🎯 The public isn't going to understand this, unless the presidents of R1 universities around the country <loudly> & <collectively> get out into the public square & start explaining this & calling out the existential threat to the entire 🇺🇸 university system. The silence is deafening right now.
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100%. One of the most professionally rewarding dimensions of my job the last few years has been in working with clinical teaching colleagues to integrate systems and policy thinking into our med student curriculum.
Viewpoint: Medical students and residents need to be educated on health policy issues like insurance, payment models, and drug regulation to better understand the factors that impact patient health outcomes.
https://ja.ma/3BuTE7P
https://ja.ma/3BuTE7P
December 26, 2024 at 2:29 PM
100%. One of the most professionally rewarding dimensions of my job the last few years has been in working with clinical teaching colleagues to integrate systems and policy thinking into our med student curriculum.
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Prescription drug spending in the US increased by $30 Billion between 2022 and 2023, including:
⬆️$11B spent by Medicare
⬆️$4B spent by Medicaid
⬆️$15B spent by Private Insurers
#healthpolicy #healthcarespending #cost #affordability
More details: www.healthsystemtracker.org/health-spend...
⬆️$11B spent by Medicare
⬆️$4B spent by Medicaid
⬆️$15B spent by Private Insurers
#healthpolicy #healthcarespending #cost #affordability
More details: www.healthsystemtracker.org/health-spend...
December 19, 2024 at 8:43 PM
Prescription drug spending in the US increased by $30 Billion between 2022 and 2023, including:
⬆️$11B spent by Medicare
⬆️$4B spent by Medicaid
⬆️$15B spent by Private Insurers
#healthpolicy #healthcarespending #cost #affordability
More details: www.healthsystemtracker.org/health-spend...
⬆️$11B spent by Medicare
⬆️$4B spent by Medicaid
⬆️$15B spent by Private Insurers
#healthpolicy #healthcarespending #cost #affordability
More details: www.healthsystemtracker.org/health-spend...
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CBO's out with their new deficit reductions options.
Just look at all that $$ on the table if we paid Medicare Advantage plans closer to what the law intended.
www.cbo.gov/system/files...
Just look at all that $$ on the table if we paid Medicare Advantage plans closer to what the law intended.
www.cbo.gov/system/files...
December 12, 2024 at 7:47 PM
CBO's out with their new deficit reductions options.
Just look at all that $$ on the table if we paid Medicare Advantage plans closer to what the law intended.
www.cbo.gov/system/files...
Just look at all that $$ on the table if we paid Medicare Advantage plans closer to what the law intended.
www.cbo.gov/system/files...
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New in @AJMC_Journal from Mark Fendrick, MD of the Univ. of Michigan Center for Value Based Insurance Design: a reflection on the tumultuous events of the past week and the broader issues facing American healthcare & insurance: www.ajmc.com/view/sharing...
#healthpolicy
#healthpolicy
December 10, 2024 at 5:50 PM
New in @AJMC_Journal from Mark Fendrick, MD of the Univ. of Michigan Center for Value Based Insurance Design: a reflection on the tumultuous events of the past week and the broader issues facing American healthcare & insurance: www.ajmc.com/view/sharing...
#healthpolicy
#healthpolicy
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"More than 90% of expenditures in the early years have gone to administrative and consulting costs –mostly to Deloitte Consulting, according to data obtained by investigative reporters." This includes an $11 million ad & outreach campaign.
A reminder that Georgia's "Pathways to Coverage" has failed to cover many Georgians (c. 5,000 enrolled) but has been very successful at rewarding Deloitte a large global financial firm with millions of dollars in contracts.
My blog explains:
ccf.georgetown.edu/2024/10/30/g...
My blog explains:
ccf.georgetown.edu/2024/10/30/g...
Georgia’s Much Vaunted Medicaid Waiver “Pathways to Coverage” Has Turned Into “Pathways to Profit” for Consultants
As of June 2024, a paltry 4,231 Georgians were enrolled in Georgia’s section 1115 Medicaid waiver, according to reports from the state recently posted by federal CMS. Data from the newly released r…
ccf.georgetown.edu
December 5, 2024 at 3:25 AM
"More than 90% of expenditures in the early years have gone to administrative and consulting costs –mostly to Deloitte Consulting, according to data obtained by investigative reporters." This includes an $11 million ad & outreach campaign.
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The MN Dept of Health just released a first of its kind report on MN 340B covered entities’ acquisition costs, net revenue, and external operational/admin expenses. It includes (select) entity-level and drug family-level data. The report is here: www.health.state.mn.us/data/340b/do.... #Healthpolicy
www.health.state.mn.us
November 25, 2024 at 3:26 PM
The MN Dept of Health just released a first of its kind report on MN 340B covered entities’ acquisition costs, net revenue, and external operational/admin expenses. It includes (select) entity-level and drug family-level data. The report is here: www.health.state.mn.us/data/340b/do.... #Healthpolicy
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The possible “catastrophic success” of CAR-T cells in cancer and autoimmune disease @science.org. A nice story on dramatic diseases, biomedical technology and sustainability.. bit.ly/4i9FXf1 #oncosky #medsky #oncsky 🧪
A breakthrough cancer immunotherapy is now taking aim at autoimmune disease
CAR-T therapy is generating excitement for lupus, scleroderma, and other conditions as clinical trials expand
bit.ly
November 25, 2024 at 5:36 AM
The possible “catastrophic success” of CAR-T cells in cancer and autoimmune disease @science.org. A nice story on dramatic diseases, biomedical technology and sustainability.. bit.ly/4i9FXf1 #oncosky #medsky #oncsky 🧪
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New open access article from our team.
Event-driven / on-demand (AKA 2-1-1) PrEP use has tripled between 2019-2023 in Australia, with 28% of gay/bi men and other men who have sex with men now using event-driven PrEP in 2023.
Read here:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Event-driven / on-demand (AKA 2-1-1) PrEP use has tripled between 2019-2023 in Australia, with 28% of gay/bi men and other men who have sex with men now using event-driven PrEP in 2023.
Read here:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
November 25, 2024 at 8:05 AM
New open access article from our team.
Event-driven / on-demand (AKA 2-1-1) PrEP use has tripled between 2019-2023 in Australia, with 28% of gay/bi men and other men who have sex with men now using event-driven PrEP in 2023.
Read here:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Event-driven / on-demand (AKA 2-1-1) PrEP use has tripled between 2019-2023 in Australia, with 28% of gay/bi men and other men who have sex with men now using event-driven PrEP in 2023.
Read here:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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NEW: How could Trump’s tariffs impact generic drugs, many of which come from abroad?
Dr. Janet Woodcock, a former acting FDA chief, said without some kind of exemption, importing is likely to become more expensive — a cost that could be passed on to patients.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
Dr. Janet Woodcock, a former acting FDA chief, said without some kind of exemption, importing is likely to become more expensive — a cost that could be passed on to patients.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
Trump’s tariffs could raise the cost of generic drugs in the U.S.
Generic drugs make up the majority of prescriptions filled in the U.S.
www.nbcnews.com
November 22, 2024 at 1:39 PM
NEW: How could Trump’s tariffs impact generic drugs, many of which come from abroad?
Dr. Janet Woodcock, a former acting FDA chief, said without some kind of exemption, importing is likely to become more expensive — a cost that could be passed on to patients.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
Dr. Janet Woodcock, a former acting FDA chief, said without some kind of exemption, importing is likely to become more expensive — a cost that could be passed on to patients.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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RFK Jr and aides are weighing changes to billions of dollars in Medicare physician payments.
Their thesis: the current payment model, which rewards specialty care and surgeries, has created bad incentives that harm our health.
Many experts + Democrats have also called for more $$ for primary care.
Their thesis: the current payment model, which rewards specialty care and surgeries, has created bad incentives that harm our health.
Many experts + Democrats have also called for more $$ for primary care.
RFK Jr. weighs major changes to how Medicare pays physicians
Kennedy and advisers say the system drives doctors to perform costly surgeries rather than combating chronic disease.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 21, 2024 at 10:44 PM
RFK Jr and aides are weighing changes to billions of dollars in Medicare physician payments.
Their thesis: the current payment model, which rewards specialty care and surgeries, has created bad incentives that harm our health.
Many experts + Democrats have also called for more $$ for primary care.
Their thesis: the current payment model, which rewards specialty care and surgeries, has created bad incentives that harm our health.
Many experts + Democrats have also called for more $$ for primary care.
Curious about the 340B Drug Pricing Program? Check out our scoping review of the empirical literature (and the first paper of my dissertation) in The Milbank Quarterly
@MilbankFund. Many thanks to co-authors Rena Conti, Sean Cahill, and Megan Cole doi.org/10.1111/1468...
@MilbankFund. Many thanks to co-authors Rena Conti, Sean Cahill, and Megan Cole doi.org/10.1111/1468...
January 29, 2024 at 3:53 PM
Curious about the 340B Drug Pricing Program? Check out our scoping review of the empirical literature (and the first paper of my dissertation) in The Milbank Quarterly
@MilbankFund. Many thanks to co-authors Rena Conti, Sean Cahill, and Megan Cole doi.org/10.1111/1468...
@MilbankFund. Many thanks to co-authors Rena Conti, Sean Cahill, and Megan Cole doi.org/10.1111/1468...
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Scoop: Republicans are quietly delaying more than $1 billion in planned funding for a life-saving HIV program — demanding changes to terms like abortion, sexual reproductive health, even "human rights" in the program’s documents.
It’s the latest hurdle facing PEPFAR. More here.
It’s the latest hurdle facing PEPFAR. More here.
Republicans delay more than $1 billion in HIV program funding
The funding delays are the latest complication facing PEPFAR, a life-saving program that has been ensnared in a broader political fight around abortion.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 26, 2023 at 3:17 PM
Scoop: Republicans are quietly delaying more than $1 billion in planned funding for a life-saving HIV program — demanding changes to terms like abortion, sexual reproductive health, even "human rights" in the program’s documents.
It’s the latest hurdle facing PEPFAR. More here.
It’s the latest hurdle facing PEPFAR. More here.