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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

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Rural Physician. Daddy of Girls. Patient and Physician Advocate. Practical Conservative who supports MCaid Expansion (Majority view). Tweets my own.

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@GentryMD

Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

10 months

In ten years, does America want more hospitals, doctors, nurses, pharmacists, independent pharmacies, therapist…… or bigger, richer, more profitable insurance companies? The answer to that question should shape all of our healthcare policies moving forward. #MedTwitter

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

8 months

Just spoke to a family member in Texas. MRI with insurance- $1200 Cash price- $800 This should always be illegal. Not just wrong… illegal. What if he didn’t have the good sense to check both ways? #MedTwitter #HealthcareReform

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

3 years

Why would the MISSISSIPPI news media publish the thoughts of an athlete without any medical training regarding the life saving COVID vaccination? Can we do a little better about getting our sources? People are receiving care in parking garages. #medtwitter

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PA Failure causes delayed diagnosis and delayed care. Patient with back pain out of proportion for the usual causes of pain and no hx that would explain the pain. Several ER visits prior to seeing me. I ordered repeat X-rays and MRI. MRI denied until 6-8 weeks PT has been

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

6 months

Who pays for the current Medicaid program? Mississippians pay for 20%. Wealthy residents and businesses in New York and California pay for the rest. Who pays for expansion? Mississippians pay for 10%. Wealthy residents and businesses in NewYork and California pay for the

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

9 months

PBMs should be regulated out of existence. Health insurers should transition to non-profit. Earnings should be split between beneficiaries and providers proportionally. C-suite salaries should be capped. Political leaders should be embarrassed if caught accepting donations

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

9 months

Medicare Advantage plans are the Timeshare of healthcare. They’ll do anything to get you in…. And you’ll do anything to get out. Don’t fall in that trap if you can avoid it. #HealthcareReform #Medtwitter

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

4 months

When Mississippi expands Medicaid to the 138% FPL, the sky won’t fall just like it didn’t fall in 40 other states (including half that voted for Trump). Poor people won’t be getting a check in their mailbox. They’ll get blood pressure medication, cancer treatment,

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

3 years

Right now, Mississippi is having to be bailed out by the Federal Government. Oh, and we are turning a parking garage into a hospital. This should embarrass us all, because the states that listened and prepared more by getting vaccinated aren’t having to do this. #medtwitter

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

9 months

Health Insurer will not approve an MRI that was done prior to PA completion (by rare systemic mistake)… The MRI showed a full-thickness rotator cuff tear. Is this what the PA system was created for? I thought they said it was to prevent unnecessary tests…. With a

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

5 months

@jtrebach And nobody questions it because anyone with two thumbs and a smart phone is an expert today.

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

2 years

@fuzzymittens I recommend replacing them with physician satisfaction scores and penalizing low-performing insurance plans financially via refunds to Pts and a headache-fee to physicians. Insurance companies have no effective accountability.

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

9 months

Why is Health Insurance so expensive? Take some time to consider how many people are employed by health insurers. Thousands upon thousands including….. Doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, accountants, lawyers, coders, secretaries, many layers of leadership, ect. None of

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

2 years

Physicians and patients have tolerated non-transparent formularies from insurance companies for too long. #MedTwitter

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

10 months

Every insurance company should be required to include a QR code on the back of the card that links to a an active, updated, preferred drug list. The guessing that Docs and Pts go through just to “figure out” what will eventually have to be approved is ridiculous. #MedTwitter

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

8 months

Top 5 ways Americans are ripped off, healthcare edition (with bonuses): 1. Paying 256% more for the same medications. 2. PBMs and the very legal bribes/rebates they receive for formulary placement that aren’t passed on to patients 3. Paying exorbitant insurance premiums

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

3 years

Current state of NP Training 1. No Entrance exam. 2. Minimal/no Nursing experience 3. 100% acceptance rate 4. Diploma Mill shortcut to medicine 5. Not meant as preparation for solo practice. Rural MS is the last place a person trained like this should practice w/o oversight.

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

2 years

Prior Auths should be sent to the patients to fill out b/c The Insurance Commissioner and Legislators would have so many angry calls that the Ins Co’s would have to get their act together.

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

8 months

What if Health insurers and PBMs were guided by the mandate to “First, do no harm”? Physicians are taught that, no matter what, we should first, do no harm…. primum non nocere. ****Insurance companies and PBMs practice medicine without a license vicariously through approvals,

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

3 months

Myth: Medicaid Expansion would give money to poor people who ought to be working harder. Truth: Medicaid Expansion would give money to hospitals and clinics who would use the funds to pay their employees to take care of poor people that cannot afford health insurance. Myth: I

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

9 months

Average family premium is $24k in 2023… And it’s still not enough to get you the best price for your meds. Did you know your cheapest med price, despite those high premiums, is often obtained without your insurance? Be sure to ask Your independent pharmacist if their cash

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

8 months

The main goal of Health insurance should be to decrease the out of pocket expenses for the patient…. For the goals of: 1. Protecting patients from financial ruin. 2. Decreasing barriers to care. The irony is that health insurance is often contributing to financial

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

3 months

A Mississippi health advocate carries 2 heavy burdens: 1. The difficulty of convincing people that are not poor that Mississippi is poor. 2. The difficulty of convincing people that are not experiencing a health crisis that Mississippi is experiencing a health crisis.

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

5 months

Here’s the cure for any heartburn some may have over Medicaid Expansion in Mississippi… Stop thinking about poor people getting healthcare for free. Just let it go. They already get it for free. We are just dickering over who’s going to shoulder the burden: struggling

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

3 years

We are passed the point of reason and logic. Powerful statements of truth from credible sources mean very little. Cognitive dissonance. Denial. Head in sand. Hospitals in Parking garages. Unnecessary deaths. All related.

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

5 months

Resisting Medicaid expansion must be taken as disregard for all frontline hospital employees. The House Bill is Budget Neutral. There’s nothing but politics keeping that money away from Mississippi. Saying no to Medicaid Expansion is saying no to these people in your

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

9 months

The only Healthcare budget that makes sense, in light of our unsustainable system (high costs, low relative value, closing hospitals, diminishing labor supply, and overburdened workforce)…. Is one that increases payment to the stakeholders that produce healthcare commodities

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

3 years

Why would anyone who took a shortcut feel brave enough to ask for privileges they didn’t earn? Healthcare is not simple, there is a right way and a wrong way to provide it. Rural Medicine is even more difficult. Bad primary care kills slowly.

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

2 years

The Prior Auth Process is so bad because physicians have tolerated and enabled the bad behavior of Insurance companies. Time for a change. #Medtwitter

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

3 years

Why can a person practice medicine with 2 years of online work, but not law? Because the MS Bar has high standards. Medicine should too. Protect the people. Preserve the team. Quality matters.

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

3 years

The root causes of premature and unnecessary mortality and morbidity in America are almost entirely preventable by patient participation. Grading Physicians by metrics without establishing pt responsibility serves no purpose and doesn’t save $$$. #medtwitter

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

8 months

The insurance companies have all the information they need to answer 99% of the questions they pose on a PA request. With all the technology available, insurance companies aren’t using it to make life better for patients and physicians…. They are using it to make it harder to

@pgipe

Dr. Gripesalot

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Had a switch to different GLP denied by @AnthemBCBS today bc they don’t have “records” the patient is diabetic-even though they’ve approved and been paying for their other diabetic meds. I hate it here.

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

6 months

Dialysis is a major cost burden for American Healthcare. It would behoove policy makers to consider the long game and aggressively attack the cost of renal protective medications to make them accessible to patients. How many times have I prescribed an SGLT2 for patients with

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

3 years

Criticism of FPA for NPs should never be misconstrued as Criticism of NPs working as a part of the healthcare team. NP groups should support fixing the team instead of destroying it. The team has flaws & we all need to be at the table to fix them. #MedTwitter

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

3 years

The children are sitting ducks in the classrooms without masks. Why can’t we do everything possible to keep them safe?

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

3 years

Regarding covid vaccines, Mississippi is part of the control group (poorly vaccinated). We need to stop this study early and put everyone in the treatment group ASAP. The results are clear that vaccination prevents death, hospitalization, and severe covid. #Medtwitter

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

8 months

30 y/o F with recently diagnosed Guillain-Barré syndrome, now paraplegic and nearly neurologically devastated. She Just got discharged from a rehab facility a few weeks ago. Does not have Medicaid. Her plan looks like an exchange plan, but I’m still not sure what it is. Her

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3 years

@TCBPubHealth remembered the number. To the docs, those deaths aren’t just numbers.

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Amrita Khalid

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Mississippi has five children dead from Covid-19. The governor couldn’t recall the exact number at a press conference where he announced that there would be no mask mandate for the state’s schools:

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

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I want to thank @MissyWMcGee for killing it today. She was articulate, smart, prepared… and ready to make a deal. Strange that every year more and more states expand Medicaid…. And no state ever repeals…. 40 states total, 19 that voted for Trump. But yet Mississippi, the

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

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@DrEricBall One of my 6 yr olds got out of bed crying last night….. because she didn’t WANT to grow up. I told her she had to, but she promised to do it as slowly as possible and that made us both feel better. #DadLife #GirlDad

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

6 months

@Rothmus Stop saying new math… Math is math. If you found a better way to teach it, then fine. But before you say it’s better, you have to realize that we went to the moon on the old math.

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

8 months

Health Insurers can legally circumvent the MLR to spend less on patients and keep more for themselves…. I’m sure they would never do such a thing… but they could. As a reminder, the Medicare Loss Ratio (MLR) was put in place with good intentions to ensure that a certain

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

4 months

The rest of the country financially supports Mississippi…and not by a little. We must make laws and policies for Mississippi with a clear understanding of where our bread is buttered. It’s not comfortable to acknowledge, but it’s true for now. MS leaders should hold to a

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

4 months

@ToddZywicki @sgremminger Is this a parody account? I mean really. I had 2 jobs all through undergrad. I mowed lawns during med school. I moonlit during residency and went to night classes to earn an MBA… all while I was dating my soon to be wife, planning a wedding, and studying for boards. For

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

9 months

For-Profit Health insurance companies have an ethical, legal, and fiduciary duty to act in the best interest of their shareholders. This conflict of interest is a driving force in the broken, high-cost, low-value American Healthcare system. And they donate big bucks to

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

7 months

@HopeRipple2 PA =Prior Authorization It’s this thing they invented a long time ago where your physician can listen to your problem, ask a bunch of questions, examine you thoroughly, and then order a test based on his/her expertise from years of intense training and experience in

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

8 months

Drug prices 256% higher in America than in other countries. Same drugs. Same dosages. Higher prices. This was a government study. Everyone knows it. Nobody wants to address it. Where is the Accountability? “Although PBMs are able to negotiate lower prices, the extent to

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

2 years

@AshleyGWinter UTI is possibly the most over diagnosed problem in healthcare.

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

5 months

When a patient without a job comes to the hospital, nobody wants the hospital to let them die on the curb. If you’re that guy, let somebody know. Medicaid expansion allows taxpayers around the country to pay for that persons care. They will get free care either way. Doing

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

5 months

The Good Samaritan never asked about employment history before he did the right thing. Hospitals aren’t allowed to ask about employment history before doing the right thing. Medicaid shouldn’t either. Doing the right thing increases Fed spending by less than 0.02%. 40

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Mississippi Today

5 months

The latest from Marshall Ramsey: Kingdom

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

3 years

A patient told me today not to discuss the vaccine with him because he didn’t want to get into politics with his doctor….Sounds like he didn’t want to get into medicine with his doctor? #MedTwitter

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

5 months

It costs us nothing to do the right thing, zero. Why aren’t we doing it? FREE. 40 states, 55% of MS republicans, 73% of all MS voters #msleg

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Lucy C. Dagneau

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These incredible faith leaders turned out today in MS!!! Beyond grateful for their service and bravery. @JasonCoker316 at the podium speaking truth! #closethegapMS

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

3 years

Physicians are 100% pro-NP as an integral part of the healthcare team. Indispensable! But they were not trained to work alone & current training/vetting exemplifies that statement. Physicians advocate for The highest standards of care for our pts -It’s what they deserve. @MSMA1

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

9 months

Drug pricing and PBM profit research letter from @JAMA_current published in October of this year. Profit trail of 45 high-utilization generic drugs was studied. Summary of 2021 Part D Med Spend: Manufacturer Revenue - 29.9% Pharmacy gross Profit - 17.2% PBM gross profit-

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

3 years

Health Equity cannot exist in the presence of a training Disparity.

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

4 months

I don’t understand the work requirement narrative. The uninsured are not going to buy insurance, expansion will not cause them to get a free service that they would otherwise be paying for. Right now They get emergency care for free at the expense of struggling hospitals and

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

9 months

Manufacturer’s coupon cards not being allowed for Medicare patients…. If my patients from the Greatest Generation understood how they were being slighted by @CMSGov , they would ROLL on Washington…. Rollators, Gerichairs, wheelchairs, scooters, and all. The few that can

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

3 years

Did you know that you can love and support your NP and still be grateful for the Collaboration they have with a Board Certified physician? Valuing your NP doesn’t mean you have to agree to stand alone practice. Physician Availability is important.

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

9 months

The question really is this…. Does America want Big Beautiful insurance companies that lack for nothing…. Or do we want big nice hospitals and comfortable clinics all staffed with appropriately paid workers? Because you can’t have both. We are headed for the former, we

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Humane Healthcare for All

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The Healthcare Big Short: Health Insurance either CAN NOT or WILL NOT pay their bills. Hospitals are firing staff, closing wards, and closing period. Time for a Free Market Medical Care system. Works for Food and Real Estate. #healthcare #business #failure

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

3 years

Any discussion of scope issues has always been about the big picture and consequences thereof. Not as a commentary of anyone specifically. The big picture is what must be considered because of wide Variability in Non-physician training.

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

8 months

Pharmacy Benefit Managers claim they play a vital role in keeping medications affordable. Americans pay an average of 256% more for medications than other developed countries. The math doesn’t work. #Medtwitter #HealthcareReform

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

3 years

Stop talking about burnout and take back medicine. #Medtwitter

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

4 months

$95 Billion dollars in Foreign aid passed just like they were buying a new pair of socks. Why do Mississippians argue over letting the Federal Government send less than $1 Billion to the poorest state in America to subsidize healthcare and support our state economy? Whose

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

3 years

When I read some of the low quality and OBVIOUSLY biased papers that tout the equality of NP certs (no entr exam, 100% accept rt, min/no nursing exp) to physicians (11yrs min, diff to enter/exit, heavily tested), their need for oversight is blatantly obvious. #MedTwitter

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

9 months

**Evidence doesn’t cause formulary preference… payment does.** Nice arrangement for PBMs and Insurers. Pay to play. Rebates=legal kickbacks=legal bribes *************** *************** *************** Are y’all ok with that? Because I’m not. There are better, more

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

9 months

Time to evaluate the efficacy of insurance driven quality measures. What value is American Healthcare getting for the price and administrative burden we pay? High costs, low yield. Healthcare reform begins with insurance reform. #MedTwitter

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

6 months

@patti12471 Your comment is the most insightful one here. I am conservative to my core. But many of my fellow conservatives act as if MS is self sufficient and is being taken advantage of by the rest of the country who don’t pay taxes. It’s the opposite that is true. Monies we

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

4 months

Question: 50 year old man presents to hospital with sudden heart attack. He is uninsured and only works 118 hours per month. What is the next step? A. Save his life B. Refuse to treat. Discharge to parking lot. Advise patient to return to hospital after working 2 more

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

3 years

Hospitals can own docs. Hospice companies can own docs. LTC companies can own docs. Pharmacies can own docs. But Docs can’t own any of those. There should be a 2-way street or a great big wall separating us all. Who let this happen? #MedTwitter

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

6 months

@Richard55977960 It’s not perfect, but your representation of the Medicaid program is not accurate.

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

2 years

Medicare Advantage plans filter sick patients out of their population by repeatedly denying care or not prov adequate network. Sick Pts that stay are just taken “advantage” of because they can’t afford a Drug plan with Trad Medicare. Broken system. #MedTwitter

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

9 months

If a publicly traded health insurer doesn’t prioritize profits over patient care, they are not fulfilling their fiduciary duty to stockholders & the leadership should be dismissed. Any idea that “excellent patient care” doesn’t compete with profit margins is false. #MedTwitter

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

5 months

@jtrebach I’m learning that people still have lead pipes? Yes, if you are a conservative and a liberal says something good like, “let’s get rid of lead pipes….” Or vice versa… We still need to do it. Signed, Everyone.

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

9 months

Publicly traded Health insurers have a fiduciary duty to their shareholders that supersedes any obligation to patients. Shareholders > patient care That conflict of interest should be eliminated as quickly as possible and is foundational to healthcare reform. #MedTwitter

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

3 years

When I transfer a patient from my hospital, they are sick. I don’t want to talk to Junior who has to go ask daddy and 3 more people for permission to accept the patient. Physicians, please do your own work. #MedTwitter

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

8 months

I’m sure Prior Auths do promote “affordable patient care.” They also promote suffering and death. The affordable part comes from delaying and denying healthcare to deserving patients…. And the fact that the insurers don’t pay for the time offices spend doing this

@mass_marion

Marion E Mass, M.D. #patientsfirst #scrubsnotsuits

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AHIP= America’s Health Insurance Plan= lobbyists 4 health insurance. Ask yourself if AHIP can give care or if anything about them is affordable. BTW: Prior Authorization= 14 hrs/week your physician, a spends to convince an insurance company ‘suit’ that you should get care

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

6 months

@docxusofficial @EMIMeducator Can you remove the strawberry so we can see the patient’s tongue?

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

9 months

Average Insurance premium for family coverage is $24k/year (shared with employer). What employees pay differs but thats the average total. Even though it should, that enormous price does not include a promise (or an effort) to deliver the best price on your medications. Cash

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

8 months

“Healthcare is not expensive when you remove the profiteers.”

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

9 months

Why do health insurance companies donate to charity? If they have extra money…. Give it back to patients AND/OR increase payments to hospitals and other providers of healthcare. Patients can use their refunds to donate to their own favorite charities. Hospitals and other

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

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@grahamwalker Also, people jump to associate a causal relationship between natural deaths and vaccines (inappropriately) but completely ignore longterm effects of covid… which is being woefully overlooked. Long covid can kill.

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

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@kjdelay1 @fuzzymittens I suppose the insurance industry will be down a few percentage points too next year right? I jest. They are insulated from economic downturn because they hold the purse strings yet offer no value to the system and no direct care at all. Cancerous.

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

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I’m sure Russ just made an honest mistake and didn’t intend to make a sad attempt to mislead his readers or the elected officials of Mississippi. The House Bill that passed overwhelmingly by our Republican led majority takes full advantage of the 90% Federal Match and the

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Partial Medicaid expansion better deal for state than full expansion. #msleg Russ Latino says supporters of full expansion have argued that the state should not pass on the higher match rate. But math is a funny thing.

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

9 months

Disadvantage plans signing up seniors over the phone without knowing if they have capacity to understand what they are doing is unethical. Family members of patients who function well enough to live at home but not well enough to make serious decisions without help don’t

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

9 months

1. Why would an Insurance company need to donate to a politician? 2. To mold policy? Yes. 3. In what way? - Likely to pay hospitals, pharmacies, physical therapy clinics, mental health facilities, and physicians……..less money. (Including their employees like nurses,

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

5 months

If poor people getting free healthcare keeps you at night, then you better not put your pajamas on because…. They ALREADY get it for FREE… on the backs of every frontline healthcare worker in this state. And they get it for free whether or not they have a job. We are just

@RussLatino

Russ Latino

5 months

For all the talk of Medicaid for “the working poor” you’d think proponents of expansion would have no problem with a real work requirement. After all, these folks are already working, right? Only they are gnashing their teeth at the prospect. Peculiar.

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

9 months

@DGlaucomflecken The problem with Medical technology, in general, is that no one has put any thought into the quality (or necessity) of the information that is being collected and transmitted. Why? 1. The perception of liability if every possible data point is not collected and transmitted to

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

3 years

Patient told me today a med was $110/month with insurance. Printed GoodRX coupon, sent rx to cheapest pharmacy, and told her to cash pay it for $31/3month supply. This is why insurance is a racket. Biggest legal middleman in the world. Guaranteed profit. #MedTwitter

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

3 months

Excellent data point. You know how Mississippi Leadership could improve the lives of nurses and increase the available workforce by improving retention? Expand Medicaid like 40 other states (bipartisan) so that hospitals and clinics can increase nurse pay (as well as other

@jallen1985

CONFIRM JUDGE SCOTT COLOM 👨🏾‍⚖️

3 months

"A recent WalletHub analysis ranks Mississippi as the fifth worst state to be a nurse nationally. ... "Additionally, WalletHub recently ranked Mississippi as having the 2nd worst job market rank and third worst economic environment rank nationally."

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

4 years

@JAFERDIAN Hmmm......

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

2 years

The Health Insurance industry is out of control with no accountability at this time for their service towards patients or physicians or hospitals. We need transparency and accountability. ASAP.

@DrHarryThomas

Harry Thomas

2 years

Worst #priorauthorization I've seen in a while: Requiring a patient with Crohn's disease to try and fail a medication that *can worsen (and even cause) Crohn's disease*. 🤦🏾‍♂️

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

7 months

I learned something by reading one of @LighthouseDPC ‘s tweets. I cannot fathom why the @IRS would create a barrier to healthcare by disallowing Direct Primary Care payments. It’s a great model for many people that can lower cost of care and overall healthcare spend. There

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

6 months

Arkansas is the best comparison for Mississippi in terms of population size, demographics, economy, and politics… They expanded in 2014. Since then, the AR GDP has increased 13.5%. MS has increased 4%. Many factors affect GDP. Medicaid Expansion for a small state like MS will

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

3 years

If the pilot puts on a parachute, a smart person would follow suit. 96% of all physicians have chosen to be fully vaccinated. #medtwitter #VaxUp #MaskUp

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

3 years

I’m a conservative physician, and I wish my conservative non-physician friends would join me in taking the pandemic serious and getting vaccinated. #medtwitter

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

2 years

@AgnesSolberg By and large… They are more concerned with numbers than quality.

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

8 months

PBMs are middlemen. Middlemen increase costs and inflate the customer’s price point. It’s a very expensive magic show…lots of Smoke and mirrors. Since Americans pay on average 256% MORE for prescription drugs than other companies, the impressive claims of PBMs ring hollow.

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

9 months

Physicians look at AI and salivate over how it can carry the administrative burden caused by health insurers. Health insurers look at AI and salivate over how they can increase administrative burden more efficiently. How ironic. Reduce the middle. Expand the ends (patients

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

3 years

The best way to live with the virus is to do everything you can to prevent dying from it. #VaxUp #MaskUp #Medtwitter

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Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

3 years

The cure for burnout? Work hard, don’t expect anyone to notice or appreciate the job well done, take time off often, and never feel bad about it. Serve God and not people.

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