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KariLynn Dowling-McClay, PharmD, MPH
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COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Health Literacy in US Southern States

COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy is not associated with health literacy. Personal perception of threat was associated with reduced vaccine hesitancy.

Alecia Clary, PhD
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RAISE: Elevating Person-Centered Data for Healthy Communities

The RAISE program provides awareness and shares comprehensive solutions to address the multifaceted reasons for missing and incomplete data across the real-world data continuum.

Cassandra Leighton, PhD, MPH
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Predicting Opioid Use Disorder and Associated Risk Factors in a Medicaid Managed Care Population

A Medicaid managed care organization developed a machine learning model to identify opioid use disorder (OUD) risk factors and predict OUD incidence in its multistate population.

Julie A. Royalty
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Oncology Alternative Payment Models: Lessons From Commercial Insurance

Developing alternative payment models for commercial populations in specialties such as oncology is rife with practical challenges. Leading payers and practices share lessons to date.

Jordan E. Pinsker, MD
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HEDIS Glycemic Goal Achieved Using Control-IQ Technology

A greater proportion of patients with type 1 diabetes who used automated insulin delivery systems vs multiple daily injections achieved the Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) glycemic measure.

Nancy P. Ford, MSW, LCSW
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Impact of Advance Care Planning Consults on Advance Directives Completion

Implementing advance care planning consults can increase advance directive completion rates. The authors demonstrate the impact of consults on completed advance directives in the medical record.

Rudra Mehta, BS
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Machine Intelligence for Early Targeted Precision Management and Response to Outbreaks of Respiratory Infections

This paper evaluates novel machine intelligence to predict patients at risk of severe respiratory infections and recommend postacute care providers likely to reduce infection risk.

Giorgio Tarchini, MD
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Managed Care COVID-19 Outcomes in a Population Health Program

Data from 38,193 patients showed that managed care patients have COVID-19 risk factors similar to those of the general population and that a population health program decreased mortality.

Jeffrey Gibbs, MD
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Corticosteroid Premedication for Infliximab Remains Unnecessarily Common

Although use of corticosteroid premedication prior to infliximab infusions is declining, it remains unnecessarily high despite limited benefit and the risk of serious adverse events from corticosteroids.

Gunnar Esiason

Gunnar Esiason is a patient advocate living with cystic fibrosis and leads patient-facing strategy at Florence Healthcare. Follow him on Twitter @G17Esiason.

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Contributor: It’s Time to Talk About Paying Clinical Trial Participants More

There is wide variation in the governance over research participant pay, and with rapid advances in technology enabling trial access, industry should step up and pay patients what they are worth, says Gunnar Esiason, a patient advocate living with cystic fibrosis.

Anita H. Yuan, PhD, MPH
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Patients’ Needs Following Emergency Care for Ambulatory Care–Sensitive Conditions

To inform intervention development, we assessed for medication changes and patient care needs following treat-and-release Veterans Affairs emergency department visits for chronic ambulatory care–sensitive conditions.

Rahul Rastogi, MD
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Advanced Care at Home at Scale in an Integrated Health Care System

Advanced care at home (otherwise known as hospital at home) can be scaled and provide care for a sizable portion of a hospital’s inpatient census, creating hospital capacity in an integrated delivery system.

Bruce L. Jacobs, MD, MPH
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Comparison of Primary Payer in Cancer Registry and Discharge Data

Enrollment in managed care among Medicaid enrollees presents challenges to classifying Medicaid coverage in cancer registries.

Joy C. Eckert, MPH
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RAISE: Elevating Person-Centered Data for Healthy Communities

The RAISE program provides awareness and shares comprehensive solutions to address the multifaceted reasons for missing and incomplete data across the real-world data continuum.

Lewei (Allison) Lin, MD
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Impact of COVID-19 on Specialty Televisits in a Large Integrated Health Care System

Specialty televisits remain common in the Veterans Health Administration following the COVID-19 pandemic, suggesting they will remain an important ongoing care modality for many patients.

Joseph Carrington, DO
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Telemetry: Appropriateness of Initial Assignment and Duration in Nonintensive Setting

The authors report overutilization of telemetry monitoring in a community setting, increasing the cost of health care and potential harm to patients with unnecessary interventions.

David Schwartzman, PhD
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Potential Role for Assistant Physicians in Addressing the Physician Shortage

The authors assess use of the novel assistant physician (AP) pathway and examine Missouri regulatory changes. They find limited supply impacts of APs and discuss implications.

Glenn Wirick
Glenn Wirick

Glenn Wirick is Chief Commercial Officer of AdhereHealth, a leading health care technology company focused on medication adherence. With nearly 30 years of industry experience, Wirick is a proven Sales and Marketing leader with a focus on maximizing revenue outcomes through elevated go-to-market strategies and execution.

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Contributor: How to Become a Star Ratings “Triple Threat” With CAHPS, Medication Adherence, and an SDOH-First Approach to Member Engagement

Medicare Advantage plans can implement 3 simple steps to make sure that they are competitive in the modern Stars environment.

Shealeigh A. Inselman, BS
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Impact of Medical Care Coordination Intervention on Patient Activation

This observational evaluation compared an adult medical care coordination intervention with usual care and found that the intervention was associated with significant improvements in patient activation.

Desi Kotis, PharmD
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Physician-Pharmacy Integration in Cancer Care: Pillars of Medically Integrated Pharmacy

The foundation of medically integrated pharmacy includes 7 critical pillars. This commentary focuses on the benefits of 3 of those pillars: abandonment, adherence, and access/affordability.

Laurel H. Messer, PhD, MPH, RN, CDCES, BC-ADM
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HEDIS Glycemic Goal Achieved Using Control-IQ Technology

A greater proportion of patients with type 1 diabetes who used automated insulin delivery systems vs multiple daily injections achieved the Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) glycemic measure.

Donna Gibson, MBA
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Insurance-Provided Grocery Assistance and Health Care Outcomes Among Patients With Diabetes

Receipt of an insurer-provided grocery benefit was associated with decreased rates of diabetes with complications and increased medication adherence among a population with diabetes.

Shivani Misra, PhD
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Predicting Mortality Risk Using the PREVENT Equation Across Diverse Racial Groups

This study validates the Predicting Risk of CVD Events (PREVENT) score across diverse racial and ethnic populations, highlighting its effectiveness in predicting cardiovascular risk and mortality, regardless of race or ethnicity.

Laura Olitsky, DPT
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High-Intensity Home-Based Rehabilitation in a Medicare Accountable Care Organization

High-intensity home-based rehabilitation (HIHR) may substitute for facility-based postacute rehabilitation. Patients in HIHR had better functional outcomes at lower costs than patients in facility-based care.

Shireen Haq, MPH
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Potential Health Literacy Resources for Health Plans: A Narrative Review

Several evidence-based health literacy resources may be beneficial in health plan settings to improve organizational health literacy, personal health literacy, and health equity.

Meiling Ying, PhD
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Effects of Maryland’s All-Payer Model on Elective Joint Replacement Surgery

The Maryland All-Payer Model was associated with an increase in population-based rates of elective major joint replacements, with a more pronounced effect observed in Maryland-only hospitals.

Sean D. MacKnight, MScPH
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Effects of Adjunctive Cariprazine Formulary Restrictions in Major Depressive Disorder

Patients who experienced a formulary-related rejection of cariprazine for adjunctive treatment of major depressive disorder had significantly higher hospitalization rates than those with approved claims.

Jamie M. Smith, PhD, RN
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Medicare Advantage Reimbursement Structures Impact Home Health Delivery and Outcomes

Medicare Advantage plans that place greater restrictions on home health agency care delivery may have more adverse patient outcomes than plans that provide episodic payments.

Cathaleen Madsen, PhD
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An Integrated Practice Unit Tool for the Military Health System

Researchers developed and tested an assessment tool to measure coordinated care for traumatic brain injury against the criteria of an integrated practice unit.

Ginette A. Okoye, MD
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Disparities in Physician Access for Rheumatology, Dermatology, and Gastroenterology: A Systematic Review

This article presents a systematic review of US health care disparities in physician specialist access across rheumatology, dermatology, and gastroenterology and a call to action.