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Will Your State Have a Shortage of Nurses in the Next Decade?

Overall, the United States is predicted to see a shortage of 193,000 nursing professionals by 2020, according to a 2015 report.

Pharmacoeconomics Refresher: The CVS $100k/QALY Announcement (Part 3)

In this series, we have used the recent announcement by CVS Health regarding a strategy to lower drug prices as an example to review basic pharmacoeconomic principles. For Part 3, we are going to discuss various stakeholders and how each might view the results of decisions based off of pharmacoeconomic analyses.

Understanding Diabetes Risks Can Save Your Limbs

Billing for Tobacco Cessation: Enhancing Data Quality and Revenue Capture

Outpatient electronic health records at an academic medical center showed that only 1% of visits by tobacco users were associated with a bill for cessation counseling.

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Telemental Health Use Among Publicly Insured Children

Among publicly insured children with mental health–related encounters, racial and ethnic disparities in telemental health use widened following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Closing GLP-1 Access Gaps in Obesity Care: Adaolisa Anaka, PharmD, BCACP, AAHIVP

Adaolisa Anaka, PharmD, BCACP, AAHIVP, discusses a pharmacist-led model that targets access barriers to GLP-1 obesity therapy.

Facilitators of and Barriers to Medicaid Investment in Electronic Consultation Services

In this qualitative investigation, leaders of Medicaid managed care plans were interviewed to identify facilitators of and barriers to electronic consultation for specialty care delivery.

Refining a Diagnostic Code List to Investigate Low-Acuity Utilization by Veterans

The authors updated a diagnosis list to identify low-acuity emergency department visits by veterans and applied it to examine trends and predictors of veterans’ low-acuity utilization.

Why Community Engagement Must Be Matched by Structural Food Policy

Community programs like Go for Bold improve health, but lasting, equitable gains require complementary structural food policies—including taxes, reformulation, and labeling—to shift environments and sustain change.

Discharge Timing and Associations With Outcomes Following Heart Failure Hospitalization

A retrospective multicenter study found that patients with heart failure discharged by noon had higher short- and long-term mortality and increased early readmission rates compared with afternoon discharges.

Understanding Barriers to Diabetic Eye Care for Alabama’s Underserved Patients

Eye care access for underserved patients with diabetes is limited and poorly understood. We identified barriers and innovative solutions to improve overall care and establish evidence-based practices.

Cost of Behavioral Messaging Interventions for Cardiovascular Medication Adherence

This article evaluates the programmatic cost of 3 behavioral mobile messaging interventions aimed at improving cardiovascular medication adherence in The Nudge Study.

Cost of Behavioral Messaging Interventions for Cardiovascular Medication Adherence

This article evaluates the programmatic cost of 3 behavioral mobile messaging interventions aimed at improving cardiovascular medication adherence in The Nudge Study.

Lp(a) and Getting a Head Start Against Heart Disease: Jeremy Wigginton, MD

Lipoprotein a (Lp[a]) is a valuable tool for assessing a patient's risk of cardiovascular disease, which can facilitate earlier intervention efforts and reduce health care costs, argued Jeremy Wigginton, MD.

LDCT Screening Cost-Effectiveness for Familial Lung Cancer Risk in Taiwan

Low-dose CT (LDCT) screening for individuals with a family history of lung cancer was cost-effective using Taiwan-based parameters; future work should incorporate real-world program data and subgroup analyses.

Assertive Community Treatment for Complex and Costly Patients

Assertive community treatment, a strongly evidence-based practice for delivering care to individuals with schizophrenia and low health care engagement, is applicable to disengaged, medically complex patients.

Top 5 Most-Read Cardiovascular Content of 2025

New treatments, care gaps, and cardiac monitoring were major focuses in cardiovascular news this year.

Transforming Alzheimer Disease Research Into Real-World Care: Q&A With B. Joy Snider, MD, PhD

In 2025, each issue of Population Health, Equity & Outcomes has featured a profile of a health system leader transforming care in their area of expertise. This issue spotlights a conversation with B. Joy Snider, MD, PhD, professor of neurology at Washington University in St Louis.

Impact of an Intensive Outpatient Clinic Model on Health Care Utilization and Cost

An intensive outpatient clinic model significantly reduced health care spending, hospital admissions, and emergency department visits among complex Medicaid patients over a 2-year period.

Hyperpolypharmacy and Readmission Risk Among Medicare Beneficiaries: The Role of Postdischarge Care

This study assessed the impact of hyperpolypharmacy on hospital readmission risk in 2 Medicare populations and identified effects of postdischarge ambulatory care.

Preoperative Acute Care Spending Predicts Costs in Bundled Payment Programs

Preoperative acute care costs significantly predicted postoperative costs in Bundled Payments for Care Improvement model year 3 surgeries, suggesting that accounting for preoperative factors may improve bundled payment outcomes.

Value-Based Care Interventions and Management of CKD Progression

Patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) stages 3b or 4 experienced slower decline in estimated glomerular filtration rate 20 months after enrollment in a value-based kidney care program.

Early SYRUS Data Highlight Safety, Efficacy of AZD0486 in Relapsed/Refractory B-Cell ALL: Ibrahim Aldoss, MD

AZD0486 demonstrated encouraging safety and dose-dependent efficacy in heavily pretreated adolescent and adult patients with relapsed/refractory B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), according to early findings from the phase 1/2 SYRUS trial and Ibrahim Aldoss, MD, of City of Hope.

Study Finds Flaw in Method for Key Oncology Value-Based Care Model

McKesson and The US Oncology Network find EOM attribution often mislabels cancer episodes—especially oral therapy—threatening value-based care accuracy and accountability.

Do Localized Disasters Impact Clinical Measures of Health Care Quality?

This study examines the impact of geographically limited disasters on health care quality performance scores of Medicare Advantage contracts, finding limited impact on performance scores.

Quality of Life: The Pending Outcome in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis

Because evidence gaps in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis research hinder demonstration of antifibrotic therapies’ impact on patient quality of life (QOL), integrating validated health-related QOL measures into trials is urgently needed.

Preventing Tomorrow’s High-Cost Claims: The Rising-Risk Patient Opportunity in Medicaid

For Medicaid care management, focusing on rising-risk patients is more effective than targeting high-cost claimants, whose spending tends to decrease over time due to regression to the mean.

Effects of Individualized Nurse-Led Care Plans on Olaparib Treatment Duration

A nurse-led personalized care program conducted through a specialty pharmacy prolonged medication persistence among patients with cancer receiving olaparib.

Frequent Primary Care Visits May Lower Costs for Higher-Risk Commercially Insured Adults

Tory M. Wolff, MBA, discusses his study showing that frequent routine primary care visits may lower costs for higher-risk commercially insured adults.