Alex Philips
@AlexPPhilips
M4 @BrownMedicine applying #GeneralSurgery | Medicare Advantage, price transparency, and APCD health services research @BrownHSPP @Brown_SPH
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Hi #MedTwitter, I'm Alex Philips, M4 @BrownMedicine applying #GeneralSurgery My interests include trauma/critical care, health policy, and medical education. I love to play ultimate frisbee in my free time🥏 Excited to meet everyone on the interview trail ahead of #Match2026!!
In their new Forefront article, Nathan Hostert, @RozMurray3, @CM_Whaley, and @efusebrown from @Brown_SPH discuss how, when implemented in state employee health plans, reference-based hospital price caps have the potential to save states money that can be reallocated to crucial…
Had a great time at #ACSCC25! Presented some of the healthcare price variation and vertical integration work from my time @CAHPR_BrownSPH @Brown_SPH
📃 New paper out today in @Health_Affairs! Thanks to my coauthors Nandita Radhakrishnan, @CM_Whaley , @ysingh_phd @CAHPR_BrownSPH @Brown_SPH Link: healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hl…
🚨New in @Health_Affairs led by @AlexPPhilips MD'26 @BrownMedicine: Hospital-affiliated physicians have professional fees 16–20% higher, and PE-affiliated physicians 6–10% higher, than independent physicians, adding to ~ $3B in extra commercial spending healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hl…
Enrolling in a hospital-owned #Medicare Advantage plan and undergoing a surgical procedure at the affiliated hospital were associated with improved postsurgical outcomes. ja.ma/47OJQD0 @gero5 @AlexPPhilips
📰 Paper out today in @JAMASurgery with @gero5 @djmeyers2 @Thomasctsai suggesting that aligning care through payer-hospital integration in Medicare Advantage is associated with better postsurgical outcomes. jamanetwork.com/journals/jamas… @CAHPR_BrownSPH @BrighamSurgery @BrownMedicine
The modern economic case for public provision is not about public goods or market failures or externalities. It is about what can and can't be achieved by contracting.
Medicare Advantage plans — which cover more than 50% of Medicare beneficiaries — are abusing the payment system to overcharge the government by billions every year. A new tool from @Brown_SPH shows how plan coding practices drive excess payments: medicoding.org
Had a great time presenting research from this past year @AcademyHealth #ARM25 !! Pic creds @meehirdixit @CAHPR_BrownSPH
📰 Another price variation letter out last week in @AnnalsofEM ! annemergmed.com/article/S0196-… @CM_Whaley and I once again find notable price variation for ED eval across commercial payers and state. Which is particularly important since E&M in the ED is unpredictable/non-shoppable.
Wrapping up @CAHPR_BrownSPH after a great year! Thanks to my PIs @CM_Whaley and @ysingh_phd and to my mentors @djmeyers2 , @Andy_Ryan_dydx , @ibwilson_health And to the best co-RAs @meehirdixit @gero5 Onwards to my last year of med school before applying for residency!
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