![]() ![]() If people want to criticize, I’m willing to take that.” The terms I agreed to were to speak my mind and do what I think is right,” said Slavitt, who lives in Minnesota. “I leave my family every day during the week to come to Washington to do my job. While his approach often draws “sniggers from the communications team” at CMS, Slavitt said that, at the end of the day, his job is to communicate the needs of patients, and make the often robotic and inaccessible bureaucracy of the federal government into something more human and relatable. ![]() Copying CMS champ he responded, referring to Aisling McDonough, the senior communications strategist for CMS. “Hang in there please, there are many who will fight 4 your access 2 care. In one harrowing exchange in January, a woman from Arkansas tweeted at Slavitt, saying she would take her own life if she lost her insurance. He’s been using his feed to solicit stories of Americans worried about losing their coverage. Slavitt swung back, tweeting that “unnamed people often lob clichés at you in the job … highest rates of regular visits, script fills, and avoided deaths, notwithstanding.Wait. Slavitt’s level would let a tweet like this slide and simply ignore it. Slavitt of not knowing the difference between getting insurance and obtaining real medical care, a critique of the ACA. One anonymous but politically tied Twitter account accused Mr. Slavitt! He’s just as apt to tweet official news about major government initiatives, such as MACRA, as he is to dispel rumors and myths about the Affordable Care Act (ACA) put forth by everyday tweeps (ie, you and me). Usually famous or “well-known” people on Twitter ignore snarky comments from “normals” (ie, everyday people without any particular claim to fame trying to bait a prominent person into a Twitter battle). He’s also not afraid to mix it up with random people and accounts online. Slavitt ( brings a refreshing honesty to the medium. Slavitt has come under some scrutiny from some conservative news outlets and other critics for his work while at the helm of CMS, his personal Twitter feed is simply awesome. Slavitt has been the acting administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) since 2015. #ACEP17 Twitter Real-Time Feed Offers Clinical Pearls, Insight, and Meeting NewsĮxplore This Issue ACEP Now: Vol 36 – No 02 – February 2017Įnter Andy Slavitt.Patrick Conway Discusses Health Care Innovation, Costs, Technology Part of the problem is that these accounts are frequently not managed by medical professionals but rather by young public relations professionals just entering the medical field who don’t distinguish between Vivek Murthy (the much-beloved Surgeon General of the United States, and Deepak Chopra (decidedly not the Surgeon General of the United States, Twitter handle withheld.) At worst, even well-respected medical centers’ Twitter accounts are in the habit of tweeting out poorly written health and medicine stories from local and national mainstream media or, regrettably, spouting pseudo-wisdom from celebri-docs and self-styled health and medicine gurus who are more style than substance. However, those are usually self-promoting and not ready for prime time. Sure, there’s the occasional tweet about some medical innovation or recent research. For the most part, official Twitter accounts associated with medicine and health care organizations are echo chambers for well-established ideas that are not interesting to medical professionals. Translation: The tweets are usually boring. For the most part, tweets that are officially representing a prestigious organization or prominent person in the field tend to reflect that fact. Now, just about every major healthcare and medical entity, from the New England Journal of Medicine ( to the Mayo Clinic ( has an official Twitter feed. In the past few years, major hospitals, health organizations, and prominent leaders in health care have hopped onto Twitter. ![]()
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