Fostering Primary Care Use May Hold Key to Value and Quality
May 24th 2023At the 2023 Greater Philadelphia Business Coalition on Health, panelists described the ways their organizations are promoting access to primary care in hopes that it can be part of the progress toward achieving the Quadruple Aim of lower costs, better outcomes, patient satisfaction, and clinician experience.
ATS 2023 Abstracts Highlight Risk Factors for COPD Outside of Smoking
A range of posters presented at the 2023 American Thoracic Society (ATS) International Conference highlighted a plethora of risk factors for pulmonary conditions in adulthood outside of tobacco smoking history.
Comorbidities Among Patients With COPD Impact Outcomes, Require Further Research
A symposium at the 2023 American Thoracic Society International Conference highlighted common comorbidities that warrant consideration in patients who present with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
Fendrick: Embrace of VBID Even More Crucial Amid Equity Conversations, Braidwood Ruling
May 24th 2023Kicking off the 2023 Greater Philadelphia Business Coalition on Health annual conference, Mark Fendrick, MD, of the University of Michigan, delivered a keynote exhorting the audience of employers and payers to implement the principles of value-based insurance design (VBID) in order to improve individual and population health and drive toward equity.
What We’re Reading: MA BCBS Partners With Tufts; Medicaid Drug Price Audit; SC Passes Abortion Ban
Blue Cross Blue Shield in Massachusetts sets agreement with Tufts Medicine using equity benchmarks; drug prices covered by Medicaid to undergo yearly audit; South Carolina abortion ban headed to governor as Planned Parenthood announces national staff cutbacks to shift resources to the states.
Dr Rana McKay on First-line Therapies for Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma
In this first part of a 2-part series, Rana R. McKay, MD, associate professor of Medicine and Urology, Moores Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, provides an overview of the treatment landscape for advanced renal cell carcinoma.