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Are High-Deductible Health Plans With Narrow Networks a Good Thing?
Health insurance policies with high deductibles, high coinsurance rates, and high maximum out-of-pocket limits have become de rigueur under employment-based health insurance in the US. They also are de rigueur for the health insurance coverage sold by private health plans on the insurance exchanges under Obamacare.
Health insurance policies with high deductibles, high coinsurance rates, and high maximum out-of-pocket limits have become de rigueur under employment-based health insurance in the US. They also are de rigueur for the health insurance coverage sold by private health plans on the insurance exchanges under Obamacare.
Traditionally, these policies have been marketed by their proponents under the brand name “Consumer Directed Health Care,” evoking images of consumers actually in charge of the healthcare they “consume.” A fair question is whether these insurance policies are good or bad for the citizens of this country. How should we look at that question?
Should we look at it through the prism of clinical medicine, the way physicians would frame the answer?
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Lack of Mutations Associated With Favorable Prognosis in MPN-U
April 25th 2024While the Dynamic International Prognostic Scoring System and bone marrow blasts may predict overall survival, the lack of certain mutations is also associated with a better prognosis for myeloproliferative neoplasm, unclassifiable (MPN-U).
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Examining Low-Value Cancer Care Trends Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic
April 25th 2024On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we're talking with the authors of a study published in the April 2024 issue of The American Journal of Managed Care® about their findings on the rates of low-value cancer care services throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Empowering Community Health Through Wellness and Faith
April 23rd 2024To help celebrate and recognize National Minority Health Month, we are bringing you a special month-long podcast series with our Strategic Alliance Partner, UPMC Health Plan. In the third episode, Camille Clarke-Smith, EdD, MS, CHES, CPT, discusses approaching community health holistically through spiritual and community engagement.
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Dr Dalia Rotstein: Physicians Must Be Aware MS Affects People of All Backgrounds
April 24th 2024Dalia Rotstein, MD, MPH, emphazises the importance of awareness that multiple sclerosis (MS) impacts patients from various backgrounds as clinicians think through ways to improve access to care and research efforts in MS.
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Data Back Neoadjuvant Combo vs Chemo Alone for Early-Stage NSCLC
April 24th 2024For patients with early-stage non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), combining neoadjuvant immune checkpoint inhibitors and platinum-based chemotherapy improves 2-year outcomes over chemotherapy alone, suggest findings of an extensive literature review and meta-analysis.
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