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Health Literacy and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors Among the Elderly: A Study From a Patient-Centered Medical Home

A study to determine the health literacy of elderly patients and establish whether an association exists between health literacy and cardiovascular disease risk factors.

Managed Care Reflections: Insights From Richard J. Gilfillan, MD; and Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP

To mark the 30th anniversary of The American Journal of Managed Care (AJMC), each issue in 2025 includes reflections from a thought leader on what has changed over the past 3 decades and what’s next for managed care. The February issue features a retrospective by Richard J. Gilfillan, MD, former director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation; and Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP, former administrator of CMS.

Improving Adherence to Cardiovascular Disease Medications With Information Technology

Improving adherence to long-term medication therapy remains a challenge. Health information technology interventions that leverage electronic medical records are promising, low-cost approaches for increasing adherence.

Scalable Hospital at Home With Virtual Physician Visits: Pilot Study

Results suggest that this scalable model of Hospital at Home is safe, feasible, highly satisfactory, and may be associated with substantial reductions in hospital readmissions.

Multi-Level Approach to Addressing Iatrogenic Infertility

A socioecological approach focused on patient care, education and resources for providers, and programs within cancer institutions will ensure that the risk of infertility, frequently associated with cancer treatment, will be addressed and routinely included as part of cancer care. This article discusses LIVESTRONG's efforts to achieve this goal.

Paying for Telemedicine

With effective methods of promoting telemedicine yet to be established, new risk-based payment models offer the greatest potential for telemedicine's effective and efficient use.

Analyzing Admission Rates for Multiple Ambulatory Care–Sensitive Conditions

Ambulatory care–sensitive conditions can be systematically assessed in a large electronic medical database to describe admission rates by year, catchment area, and hospital affiliation.

Quality Measure Attainment in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

Cost of Delivering Centralized and Decentralized Reminder/Recall for Vaccinations to Children and Adolescents in an ACO

Centralized reminder/recall (R/R) is less costly to deliver than decentralized R/R for both children and adolescents when implemented for patients within an accountable care organization.

Capitation Payment, Length of Visit, and Preventive Services: Evidence from a National Sample of Outpatient Physicians

Relationship Between Short-Acting β-Adrenergic Agonist Use and Healthcare Costs

Overuse of rescue medication among asthma patients is associated with increased exacerbations and higher total and asthma-related healthcare costs.

Economic Implications of Weight Change in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

Modest weight loss (>3%) among metformin-treated patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus was associated with decreased costs, lower resource utilization, and lower rates of treatment discontinuation.

The Cost of Implementing and Sustaining the Massachusetts Model

This article presents a microcosting analysis of resources needed for the implementation and sustainment of the Massachusetts model evaluated in the PROUD trial.

Contributor: How Much? Addressing Medicines’ Cost and Value

Discussions about drug pricing require consideration of values and preferences, according to Jonathan D. Campbell, PhD, chief science officer of the National Pharmaceutical Council.

Aggressive Treatment of Early Rheumatoid Arthritis: Recognizing the Window of Opportunity and Treating to Target Goals

Regardless of CNS Involvement, Patients With B-ALL Benefit From Brexu-Cel

Brexucabtagene autoleucel shows promising efficacy and safety in treating relapsed B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia, including patients with CNS involvement.

Alzheimer's Disease: Clinical Features and Pharmacologic Management

Patient-Centered Care: Turning the Rhetoric Into Reality

Understanding the perspectives of clinicians and administrators who are leaders in implementing patient-centeredness in accountable care organizations can help point the way toward implementation by others.

Financial Risk, Plans Types, and Authorizations for Managed Alcohol Treatment Services

It Is Time to Ask Patients What Outcomes Are Important to Them

Patients with abdominal or back pain identified 21 outcomes important to them, but the reported outcomes are quite different from the symptom and function outcomes studied by researchers.

Measuring Financial Toxicity in Cancer Patients

With the rising costs of cancer care, evidence-based tools can help physicians screen patients for financial toxicity.

Fostamatinib Disodium Hexahydrate: A Novel Treatment for Adult Immune Thrombocytopenia

Variation in Racial and Ethnic Differences in Consumer Assessments of Health Care

The Effects of Cost Sharing on Statin Adherence

Effectiveness of Care Coordination and Health Counseling in Advancing Illness

This prospective trial suggests that specialized care coordination and health counseling for patients coping with advanced stages of 4 life-limiting illnesses can be beneficial.

Evaluation of Agreements Between Managed Care Organizations and Providers of Community-Based Mental Illness and Addiction Disorder Treatments

Chronic Ambulatory Outpatients and Four-Vector Management

Effects of Multidisciplinary Team Care on Utilization of Emergency Care for Patients With Lung Cancer

Impact of multidisciplinary team care on reducing utilization of emergency department visits for patients with lung cancer.