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What We're Reading: 1000 Counties Will Have Just One ACA Insurer
What we're reading, October 27, 2016: the number of counties with just 1 Obamacare insurer will skyrocket in 2017; Teva and IBM partner for 2 projects; and the United States may never be able to rid itself of the Zika virus.
Competition is down on the Affordable Care Act’s insurance marketplaces. According to Vox, there will be a total of 960 counties in 2017 that have just 1 insurer selling on HealthCare.gov, compared with 182 in 2016. The areas of the country with just 1 insurer also tend to be the places with the largest premium hikes. Currently, there is no back-up plan if any of those insurers exit the exchange, leaving a county with no Obamacare insurance option.
Teva Pharmaceuticals and IBM are partnering for a drug repurposing project. Using the IBM Watson Health Cloud, the companies will use cognitive technologies to discover new uses for existing drugs, according to the press release. Teva and IBM will also partner to improve chronic disease management. They will first focus on respiratory and central nervous system diseases and will integrate data from The Weather Company for the analysis.
The United States may never get rid of the Zika virus. NPR reported that health officials have not been able to stop the spread of Zika in Miami, and the CDC’s Tom Frieden, MD, MPH, admitted that diseases spread by mosquitoes may not be controllable. The agency upgraded its health advisory and said local transmission may be happening in the entire Miami-Dade County. Meanwhile, Brazil and Colombia are trying something new to prevent Zika from being spread. The countries are going to infect mosquitoes with a bacteria that would prevent them from transmitting diseases.
Public Hospitals More Likely to Extend Unprofitable Services After 340B Participation, Study Finds
May 10th 2024Public hospitals were significantly more likely to sustain access to unprofitable services following 340B Drug Pricing Program participation, while nonprofit hospitals were mostly unaffected, according to a recent study.
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Frameworks for Advancing Health Equity: Urban Health Outreach
May 9th 2024In the series debut episode of "Frameworks for Advancing Health Equity," Mary Sligh, CRNP, and Chelsea Chappars, of Allegheny Health Network, explain how the Urban Health Outreach program aims to improve health equity for individuals experiencing homelessness.
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Research Shows Prior Authorization Denials Delay Critical Immunology Care
May 10th 2024Results featured at the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy 2024 annual meeting revealed a pattern of prior authorization rejections that could delay necessary therapeutic treatments for various patient groups.
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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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Patients With Advanced, Recurrent Melanoma May Experience Lasting AEs From ICM Therapy
May 9th 2024A cross-sectional, mixed-methods study found that adverse effects (AEs) can occur even after 1 year of treatment with immune checkpoint modulator (ICM) therapy in patients with melanoma.
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