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Dhruv Khullar

Dhruv Khullar, M.D., M.P.P. is a physician and assistant professor of health policy and economics at Weill Cornell Medical College. He is also a contributor at The New Yorker, where he writes about medicine, health care, and politics. He currently serves as Director of Policy Dissemination at the Physicians Foundation Center for Physician Practice and Leadership, and was recently a Senior Research Fellow at NYC Health + Hospitals.

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Dhruv Khullar, M.D., M.P.P. is a physician and assistant professor of health policy and economics at Weill Cornell Medical College.

He is also a contributor at The New Yorker, where he writes about medicine, health care, and politics. He currently serves as Director of Policy Dissemination at the Physicians Foundation Center for Physician Practice and Leadership, and was recently a Senior Research Fellow at NYC Health + Hospitals. His research focuses on value-based care, health disparities, and medical innovation, and has been published in JAMA and The New England Journal of Medicine.

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Our new @JAMA_current paper on Medicare's MIPS program👇 We find that MIPS is no better than chance at identifying good performance on various outcomes, and that PCPs who care for vulnerable patients may be at risk for penalties even when providing high-quality care. https://t.co/qpufEZz0at2 months ago
RT @NewYorker: John Fetterman has won the Senate race in Pennsylvania. Revisit @DhruvKhullar on the attacks on Fetterman, which were troubl…3 months ago
RT @wschpero: Medicare and Medicaid allocate ~ $24 billion in subsidies to safety-net hospitals each year. In a paper out today in @JAMANe…3 months ago
RT @NewYorker: Any serious neurologic event inevitably raises concerns about whether a candidate can perform the duties of office, @DhruvKh…4 months ago
New ⁦⁦@NewYorker⁩ on John Fetterman and what voters should know about candidates’ health. It’s not that health should be off-limits, but health status is almost never the thing that differentiates a competent politician from an incompetent one. https://t.co/vwTcpZ6Qx24 months ago
RT @NewYorker: Revisit @DhruvKhullar’s profile of a trauma surgeon in Boston as she reflects on the most challenging and emotionally taxing…4 months ago
RT @JAMA_current: Viewpoint from @DhruvKhullar describes several proposals to mitigate the role of social media in medical misinformation f…4 months ago
RT @NewYorker: During the first year of the pandemic, when reports of coronavirus reinfections started to trickle in, the phenomenon was co…4 months ago
Medical misinformation is as ancient as medical care, but social media has intensified its speed, reach, and consequences. My @JAMA_current piece on potential avenues to confront new variants of an old problem: https://t.co/sr8je84csV5 months ago
RT @NewYorker: A once-in-a-century virus demanded trade-offs. Now we seem to have arrived at another judgment, @DhruvKhullar writes: the va…5 months ago