Jaime Rosenberg

At the fall ACO & Emerging Healthcare Delivery Coalition®, Clay Alspach, JD, principal at Leavitt Partners, discussed navigating the current political and payment reform landscape, making sense of the uncertainty, and preparing for the unexpected.

A back to back session and panel at the falls’ ACO & Emerging Healthcare Delivery Coalition focused on the importance of utilizing integrated healthcare to treat individuals with addiction and ensuring physicians are educated on understanding addiction.

This fall's ACO & Emerging Healthcare Delivery Coalition

A new study found that patients with borderline pulmonary hypertension (mPAP values of 19 to 24 mm Hg) should be considered an at-risk subgroup with increased mortality compared with patients with lower mean pulmonary arterial pressures.

Implementing the Bipartisan Health Care Stabilization Act of 2017 crafted by Senators Lamar Alexander, R-Tennessee, and Patty Murray, D-Washington, to stabilize the Affordable Care Act's individual insurance markets would reduce the federal deficit by $3.8 billion over 10 years, according to an estimate from the Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Committee on Taxation.

In addition to the cost, the excessive overuse of laboratory testing causes patient discomfort and can lead to hospital-acquired anemia, which results in additional testing, prolonged hospitalizations, unnecessary transfusions, and increased mortality for patients with cardiopulmonary diseases.

With biosimilars being an everyday headline, Jason Bernstein, Epocrates Lead Strategist, outlined key reasons for pharma's growing interest in biosimilar development and key differences between generics and biosimilars.

The study found that prophylactic locoregional surgery (LRS) for asymptomatic patients with small intestinal neuroendocrine tumors (SI-NETs) provided no survival advantage compared with delayed LRS.

A new study has found that uninsurance rates declined the most in patients with distant disease and with lung and bronchial cancer. Hispanic patients also saw a large decrease in uninsurance rates.

With confusion surrounding the meaning of “savings” with regard to ACO programs, authors writing in Health Affairs outlined 3 different types of savings.

Adult ADHD diagnosis and particular child symptoms were associated with widespread macro- and micro-structural changes in the frontal, basal ganglia, anterior cingulate, temporal, and occipito-parietal regions in young adults with ADHD.

There is a relationship between CD8+ tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) and high-grade serous ovarian carcinoma (HGSOC) survival, according to a new study published in JAMA Oncology.

Mitochondrial DNA-CN was inversely associated with both prevalent and incident cardiovascular disease (CVD) events and showed potential of being a useful predictor of CVD by improving risk prediction and reclassification for primary hard ASCVD prevention.

The immunotherapy drug, made by Bristol-Myers Squibb, is recommended for use within the Cancer Drug Fund.

Our healthcare system needs to integrate certain aspects that will better address the needs of patients, according to 4 presenters at this year's Quality Talks conference in Washington, DC.

With little research on the effects of omega-6 polyunsaturated acids in the prevention of type 2 diabetes (T2D), the study focused on the link between linoleic acid and arachidonic acid biomarkers with incident T2D.

The study showed that using tumor mutation burden (TMB) can be beneficial for predicting patient response to the combination of 2 immuno-oncology therapies.

There may be an association between the availability of a physician extender and length of time a patient waits for dermatology appointments in Ohio, according to a study.

People who suffer from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest at home are 4 to 5 times less likely to survive than those who experience one in a public location. A new study determined that adopting certain public health initiatives may improve outcomes in communities for these patients.

While many lung and bladder cancer patients respond well to immunotherapy, they eventually succumb to the disease because the immune system can not detect the cancer cells. Two clinical trials will combine immunotherapy with epigenetic agents in order to allow the immune system to recognize and destroy the cancer cells.

A study has found that both recreational and non-recreational activity reduces the risk of mortality and cardiovascular disease, regardless of the country's economic status.

Choosing a new city can be difficult for people with disabilities. There is a lot to think about, from the cost of a doctor's visit to the employment rate for people with disabilities. WalletHub analyzed and compared 150 of the most populated cities in the United States and ranked them, taking into account the economy, quality of life, and healthcare.

Contrary to popular belief, low-cost, low-value health services cost nearly double the amount of high-cost, low-value health services.

Patients with stage III colon cancer with deficient DNA mismatch repair (MMR) genes who are treated with FOLFOX have a more favorable prognosis than those with proficient MMRs.

A new study focused on worldwide trends of body mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity in children and adolescents over 4 decades and found the number of obese children and adolescents has increased by more than 10-fold.

Study focused on liver cancer cases, over time, in different locations and the main causes.

Dissatisfied with the litigation process, patients find satisfaction in communication-and-resolution programs, according to a recent study.

New report from Kaiser Family Foundation analyzed out-of-pocket cost increases in the past decade and who it affects most.

The application of gamification has become an increasingly popular way to stimulate physical activity amongst Americans. With more than half of American adults not obtaining the proper amount of physical activity needed, many are at a higher risk for cardiovascular disease, and gamification has proven to be a viable way to address the issue.