Betsy Nicoletti

Separating Official Guidance from Wishes in HCC Coding Tuesday, October 20, 2:15–3:15 pm If you're at FMX, I'd love to see you there. Please stop and say hello after the session. @aafp.org

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I want to support public broadcasting but NPR plays the "Nice Polite Republicans" bit way too much, they structure everything around it so that readers are led to believe problems caused or made worse by Republicans are acts of god and forces of nature.

I'm not disagreeing with Jay's agency here. But he's literally saying if the answer to this question is yes, OR if you were within 2 seats in any direction on a plane, you have to be locked down in your home or a facility. 2020 Jay: having a seizure. 2026 Jay: Mr. Humility.

My eyes must be deceiving me.

Funny.... too true

Hey I did a fun thing with @warren.senate.gov about breaking up giant healthcare conglomerates

thanks for this reminder, Dr. Weida. G2211 is an important addition in recognizing the work of caring for primary care patients and for patients with serious, ongoing chronic conditions (medical specialists can use it.)

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world

Famous people who were NOT in the Epstein Files: #Biden #Obama #TimWaltz #AlexPretti #Epstein #EpsteinFiles #MAGA

Federal agents are pulling over off duty cops based on the color of their skin. This is not a serious operation to enforce immigration law. It’s a performative show of force and it’s gotten way out of hand.

Your first year of a PhD program, they give you a methods class explaining why not to do this study. When you become a faculty member, they make you submit proposed studies to an ethics board to make sure you never do this study.

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Here's my latest thinking on totals for Tuesday. 1st of the season can be tricky. Remember snow bands likely shift with data. During the day this time of year grass accumulates more than roads. Focus on idea of bands, not exact placement. Updates tomorrow. 🙏#Winter #snow

And sad.

A cartoon by Dabin Han. #NewYorkerCartoons

I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.

Foretold in N.K. Jemisin's "The City We Became"

Which doesn't stop them from denying claims big and small.

This beautiful volume, a longtime passion project of my husband's, is out now. If you don't know the work of John Guare, treat yourself--he's one of our most important, funny, and original playwrights. (And as a bonus, the book includes his great Atlantic City screenplay!) www.loa.org/books/plays/

reupping my explanation of how the shutdown impacts health programs with the aid of my corgis... www.youtube.com/shorts/N4VvV...

Dropping on October 14th.

Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.

After news of Monarez's ouster, multiple top CDC officials announced their resignations, per emails obtained by The Post “I am not able to serve in this role any longer because of the ongoing weaponizing of public health,” said @drdemetre.bsky.social Today = no precedent at CDC

This will forever be the most amazing email.

V highly recommended read 👇 Eloquent, personal account of the emotional ebbs and flows of pandemic ID medicine (#HIV vs #COVID19), including how it can become as hard to manage general public opinions as it is the patients themselves. #IDSky

Was glad to have the opportunity to join Morning Edition today — despite being, emphatically, not a morning person — to chat about the looming cuts to Medicaid. (Tough to hit all of the essential points in five minutes, though.)

Let's all be Vulcans

Talk about a double entendre title for an article about what RFKJr, Oz, Makary and Bhattacharya are doing to do at HHS with vaccines! @healthaffairs.bsky.social www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...

The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025. This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.

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This plaque in Prague has been rubbed to a shiny gold because for centuries, passersby have touched the dog for good luck, and also to reassure him that he's a very good boy. 14/10

JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs are pushing back on demands to roll back their diversity initiatives

This is a great explainer of how Medicare and Medicare Advantage works. www.linkedin.com/posts/ericbr...

Definitely listening to it tomorrow.

Welcome to new followers. I’m a Washington Post reporter covering politics and public health. My big focus right now: trying to understand what RFK Jr’s role will be in a Trump administration, what he wants to do, and how he could do it. Some background on the Trump-RFK alliance here:

They look beautiful.

My Solomonic view is that NYT—perhaps the president’s primary persecutor recently—showed its whole ass with this swiss-cheese Parkinson’s specialist story. It’s blatantly copied from right-wing charlatans, unvetted. And a nimbler White House and campaign would be making it pay dearly for that.