Techy Surgeon
Christian Pean MD, MS, Hadi Javeed, Nevin Ramanujan, Vadim GordinDecoding AI, health tech & policy transforming healthcare—practical playbooks for clinicians, operators, & builders, from the OR to the boardroom.
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Where Congress Stands on Health AI
What does a Blue Wave mean for AI in healthcare? I built an interactive record of where 66 members of Congress and senators-elect stand on health AI, from Medicare’s AI prior authorization model to data centers and state AI laws.
It cover...
The 2027 Physician Fee Schedule final rule
What it means for orthopedics, remote monitoring, and clinical AI
CMS adopted the RUC’s joint replacement values, cut the conversion factor more than it proposed, raised hospital outpatient payment for the same procedures and pushed the re...
Techy Surgeon partners with the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons
I’m excited to share that Techy Surgeon is partnering with the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons on the CJR-X Readiness Program, a two-year curriculum for the society’s roughly 5,500 members. Our first session goes live tomorrow...
My Calls on the 2027 Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule
CMS is expected to publish the final rule around November 1. These are my predictions on hip and knee payment, modifier 25, remote monitoring and the conversion factor, recorded before it goes live.
CMS is expected to publish the CY2027 Ph...
The Surgeon Payment Question: An Interactive Read of the BPCI Advanced Final Evaluation
BPCI Advanced saved Medicare about $800 million and CJR another $180 million. The largest per-episode savings came from surgical care episodes, and CMS is moving to cut surgeon payment anyway.
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Surgeon-founder at RevelAi & policy nerd at Duke Margolis—sharing practical playbooks for AI-powered health tech, startups, and value-based care.
CTO/Co-Founder, RevelAI Health. Built Vincere Health (acquired by Optum) and a 7 figure AI studio. Writing about healthcare AI, engineering, and execution
GP @ InnovateHealth Ventures Early stage healthcare VC focused on investing in founders enabling multi-stakeholder alignment in our healthcare system.
Healthtech venture is hard. I'm Vadim, an operator, accelerator director, and investor. I write Healing Healthtech to distill research and top operators' experience into tactics and frameworks, so we can all aim to make only new mistakes.
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