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Bridgette Thom

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Fumiko Ladd Chino, MD FASCO @fumikochino.bsky.social · 3d

#Priorauthorization #UtilizationManagement for costly 2nd-line 💊 is understandable but nearly one-half of plans have quantity limits for generic ondansetron, a cheap ($16 for 60 8mg tabs) & effective 1st-line drug

Make this make sense.

#fixPriorAuth
@michaelannica.bsky.social
@jamanetworkopen.com

Prior Authorization, Quantity Limits, and Step Therapy for Antiemetics

This cross-sectional study evaluates whether antiemetic drugs for patients with cancer who have Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplace or Medicaid plans are subject to utilizatio...

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Jul 23

Surely this will be the payment that finally gets the extortionist to stop demanding money

Columbia Agrees to $200 Million Fine to Settle Fight With Trump

www.nytimes.com

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Bridgette Thom @bthomphd.bsky.social · Jun 13

Congrats to you both!!

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · Mar 31

It’s so weird how we’re all just working like this is still a normal country.

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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · Mar 28

I thought this was Boston. But, it's Greenland.

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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · Mar 24

White House says no one will be fired over the Signal scandal because no one involved was trying to cure cancer.

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Social Security Works @socialsecurityworks.org · Mar 21

BREAKING: Trump's billionaire Commerce Secretary says that seniors won't care if they don't get their Social Security checks — and that anyone who does complain is a fraudster.

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KFF @kff.org · Mar 5

Medicaid accounted for 19% of all spending on hospital care in 2023, or $283 billion out of $1.5 trillion.

Absorbing cuts in Medicaid spending could be challenging for hospitals and may accelerate the pace of hospital closures, including in rural areas. on.kff.org/41HDoKR

KFF donut chart showing Medicaid covered about one-fifth of all spending on hospital care in 2023. The chart shows the distribution of spending on hospital care by payer, 2023: Medicaid is 19%, Medicare is 25%, Private health insurance is 37%, Other third-party payers is 10%, other health insurance programs is 7%, and out of pocket is 3%.

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STAT @statnews.com · Mar 4

NIH terminates ongoing grants for LGBTQ+ research

Saying that "research programs based on gender identity are often unscientific," the agency wrote to scientists to cancel current grants.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · Feb 26

Striking how easily you can get millions of people to vote for a boot on their own face just by lying to them about the boot going on someone else's face.

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Bridgette Thom @bthomphd.bsky.social · Feb 26

Go Kiara! Such important work.

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · Feb 25

MEDICAID Basics
Over 50% of the spending for Medicaid goes to cover those with DISABILITIES and the AGED

38% of those on Medicaid are CHILDREN. /1

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The Onion @theonion.com · Feb 21

DOGE By The Numbers
theonion.com/doge-by...

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · Feb 14

Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s idea of efficiency is stopping research on curing cancer.

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Allison Chapman @alli.gay · Feb 13

‼️ The National Park Service has REMOVED mentions of transgender people being involved with Stonewall. Not only did the remove the world "Transgender" but changed "LGBTQ+" to "LGBQ+".

The federal government is attempting to erase us and take away our history.

This pride, we riot.

A national park service webpage about Stonewall.

"Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual, or queer (LGBQ+) person was illegal. The Stonewall Uprising on June 28, 1969 is a milestone in
the quest for LGBQ+ civil rights and provided momentum for a movement."

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Chrystal Starbird @drstarbird.bsky.social · Feb 10

If only that breast cancer commercial ended with a notice about all the research funding cuts the current administration is pushing through and how it has immediate negative impacts on breast cancer research and screening.

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Bridgette Thom @bthomphd.bsky.social · Feb 8

You and me both, my friend. See you out there!

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · Feb 8

The NIH capping the indirect cost rate (IDC) for grants at 15% can best be described as a direct assault on Universities. It’s such a bureaucratic, innocuous sounding thing that actually means that research universities will be kneecapped. Thousands of employees across the US will lose their jobs.

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Jack Iwashyna @iwashyna.bsky.social · Feb 7

Oh, hell yeah

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Cover of The Lancet: "Health institutions may be hesitant to criticise the new administration publicly, but this timidity is a mistake.
Trump's actions must be called out for the damage they are doing."

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Bridgette Thom @bthomphd.bsky.social · Feb 5

Oh no!! It’s the worst! Get well soon.

Bridgette Thom @bthomphd.bsky.social · Jan 31

Nothing to see here…

Tess Thompson @drtessthompson.bsky.social · Jan 31

This is fine meme with dog sitting at a table surrounded by flames, but in the flames are screenshots of an error message at Era Commons and the CDC website

Bridgette Thom @bthomphd.bsky.social · Jan 27

🤣🤣🤣😔

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Lindsay Wiley @lindsaywiley.bsky.social · Jan 23

Shutting down medical research — not just within NIH, but everywhere that’s funded by NIH — will have long-term effects on medicine & short-term effects on state, higher education & hospital budgets. This affects all of us, not just researchers.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Jan 23

The assault on NIH is a test for how the national media covers the Trump admin: Trump is shutting down medical research!

That is easy to communicate. Will they treat it as a 5 alarm fire in a way that forces the government to respond, or will they downplay & caveat it?

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Bridgette Thom @bthomphd.bsky.social · Jan 16

My daughter did the same at that age. I was a little sad when she learned the real name for it.

Bridgette Thom @bthomphd.bsky.social · Jan 15

I have so many questions for the PI

Bridgette Thom @bthomphd.bsky.social · Jan 15

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Bridgette Thom @bthomphd.bsky.social · Dec 17

Yes, yes, and yes