Mary Caffrey

The Community Oncology Alliance said the final 2027 Medicare payment rules address longstanding gaps between hospital and community practice reimbursement, but it urged Congress to stop another physician pay cut and to fix how the Inflation Reduction Act will pay practices for Part B drugs.

Leaders from Boehringer Ingelheim, Incyte, Pfizer, and Takeda told the audience at Patient-Centered Oncology Care® that artificial intelligence (AI) is compressing discovery timelines, but that gaps in testing, data, and community access still decide which patients benefit.

As National Family Caregivers Month begins, AJMC presents coverage from PCOC's first-ever panel on caregiving, where participants discuss demands on family members who are the “eyes and ears” when patients receive CAR T, bispecific, or transplant treatments.

At an AJMC® Stakeholder Interchange in Los Angeles, leukemia specialists described a region where hospital formularies push menin inhibitor starts into the clinic, emergency department (ED) physicians may not recognize differentiation syndrome, and capitated insurance contracts steer some patients with acute myeloid leukemia away from academic centers.

A poster at the ASCO Quality Care Symposium describes how a value-based care partnership used prior authorization data and pharmacist workflows to move eligible patients off flat dosing of pembrolizumab.

At an AJMC Stakeholder Interchange in Houston, leukemia specialists from academic centers and community practices said menin inhibitors work best in combination, warned that differentiation syndrome can strike months into therapy, and described payer rules that delay access even at flagship centers.

UAB experts said new bladder cancer, myeloma, and lung cancer therapies are changing care, but access and costs remain barriers.

At an AJMC® Stakeholder Interchange in New York, New York, leukemia specialists agreed that menin inhibitors fill a real gap in relapsed/refractory acute myeloid leukemia, but said that slow molecular testing, formulary rules, and thin community infrastructure still determine which patients get them and how fast.

The new NCCN Guidelines for Patients: Caregiving for People With Cancer address finances, legal concerns, and household tasks alongside medical management, areas that an expert involved in their development says “often leave people reeling.”

Adults with moderately to severely active Crohn disease can now start risankizumab with an on-body injector at home.

For all the advances in breast cancer, there remains unmet need for patients whose cancer progresses after treatment with antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs). In the final week of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, AJMC® looks at an investigational vaccine approach that could come after ADCs, offering patients a low-toxicity regimen.

Clinicians from University of Chicago Medicine, Northwestern Medicine, and Loyola Medicine said bispecific antibodies for early-relapse myeloma can be given safely outside the hospital, but staffing, after-hours triage, and community confidence have yet to catch up.

Myeloma faculty from UT Southwestern Medical Center and pharmacy leaders from Texas Oncology discussed how teclistamab- and talquetamab-based regimens are reshaping early relapse in multiple myeloma. Observation-stay economics and physician comfort, not clinical data, are slowing delivery closer to home.

Insmed’s once-daily TPIP prodrug shows sustained lung vasodilation in PAH and PH-ILD, improving walk distance and other key measures.

ASPEN links green sputum to neutrophils and exacerbations; brensocatib (DPP1) lowers purulence, while meta-analysis supports fewer flare-ups in bronchiectasis.

At CHEST 2026, 3 speakers explained why respiratory medications stay expensive, assessed what recent federal, state, and industry fixes have achieved, and urged clinicians to use their voices on behalf of patients.

Experts at CHEST 2026 urge pulmonologists to keep lung cancer in mind for younger patients who never smoked, to order screening and biomarker testing themselves, and to advocate for patients' access to care.

Speakers at CHEST 2026 walked through the first CHEST guideline for non-CF adult bronchiectasis, including which preventive therapy to start first.

On the opening day of CHEST 2026, the organization's flagship journal highlights a trio of key papers with practice-changing results for COPD.

Selected presentations from “Reframing COPD: Phenotypes, Outcomes, Therapeutics, and the Future of Care Delivery,” a session on the opening day of CHEST 2026.

MedHaul’s platform streamlines nonemergency medical transportation, boosting on-time oncology visits, reducing costs, and helping patients reach critical care across underserved regions.

The Omaha-based practice will hand its inbound faxes and document management to artificial intelligence agents, with outside records retrieval to follow.

Panelists ask whether cancer care will shift toward home-administered infusions as payers push for change. Other topics in this forward-looking session include new delivery tech and practice-led solutions.

Expert panel discussions covered AI and community access, chronic lymphocytic leukemia, myeloma, and breast and lung cancers.

North Carolina experts discussed CLL, breast cancer, and myeloma treatments and how to expand access to complex cancer care beyond academic centers.

A survivor shares axi-cel therapy highs, experiences with severe CRS and neurotoxicity, and why access to care and clinical trials improves QOL.

At a Stakeholder Interchange convened by The American Journal of Managed Care® in Tampa, Florida, an academic-community mix of hematologist-oncologists and pharmacists debated prior authorization, site-of-care payment disparities, and how aggressively to push bispecific antibody regimens to community practices treating patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.

The National Comprehensive Cancer Network update on mantle cell lymphoma puts covalent BTK inhibitors, MRD testing, and TP53 sequencing at the center of frontline care, while adding pirtobrutinib and a pair of CAR T-cell therapies for disease that progresses on a BTK inhibitor.

In an AJMC stakeholder interchange, moderator Sandra Susanibar-Adaniya, MD, MS, of Penn Medicine, led academic and community clinicians through the operational, safety, and reimbursement challenges of moving teclistamab-and talquetamab-based regimens into earlier lines of relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma and into outpatient, community-based care.

At a Stakeholder Interchange convened by The American Journal of Managed Care® in Houston, Texas, oncologists and pharmacists from academic and community practices debated how teclistamab- and talquetamab-based regimens stack up against CAR T-cell therapy in second-line multiple myeloma, and what it will take—staffing, caregiver support, hospital partnerships, and payer buy-in—to move step-up dosing out of the hospital and into the clinic.