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Advances in Personalized Actinic Keratosis, Nonmelanoma Skin Cancer Treatments: Paul Nghiem, MD, PhD

Paul Nghiem, MD, PhD, discusses individualized therapies and the evolving role of AI in improving outcomes for actinic keratosis and related skin conditions.

Pricing and Insurance Networks in Outpatient Surgery Markets

This article examines how prices, insurer payments, and patient payments for outpatient surgeries differ by site of care and network status.

Integrating Mental Health Care Services Into HIV Comprehensive Care

Distinguishing between need and receipt of integrated services reveals that mental health care improves the likelihood of medication adherence among people living with HIV.

Medicare Advantage Coverage Restrictions for the Costliest Physician-Administered Drugs

Four large Medicare Advantage insurers manage access to expensive physician-administered drugs with a combination of prior authorization, step therapy, and Part D formulary design.

Modeling the Economic Value of Cardiometabolic Virtual-First Care Programs

Using a microsimulation approach, this study modeled the potential multiyear health and economic benefits of participating in cardiometabolic virtual-first care programs.

Specialty and Operator Status Influence Electronic Health Record Use Variation

Operators demonstrated specialty-specific differences in electronic health record efficiency, timeliness, and after-hours use, highlighting how workflow and training shape documentation behaviors across medical disciplines.

Insights Into Patient Portal Engagement Leveraging Observational Electronic Health Data

This analysis of more than 250,000 adults at least 50 years old with chronic conditions showed lower portal use among older, non–English-speaking, and Black patients, underscoring digital health equity gaps.

Impact of Payment Models on Medical Specialist Physician Practice Patterns

This article explores the impact of payment models (fee for service vs salary based) on practice patterns, including wait times and care for patients with chronic diseases.

Antihyperglycemic Treatment Patterns for Chronic Kidney Disease and Type 2 Diabetes

This study characterized antihyperglycemic medication use after chronic kidney disease onset among patients with type 2 diabetes to uncover potential unmet needs in clinical practice.

Combined Effect of Continuous Glucose Monitoring and Semaglutide: Analysis of Administrative Claims

Claims data reveal larger hemoglobin A1c decreases in people with type 2 diabetes who use continuous glucose monitoring and semaglutide compared with semaglutide alone.

Patient-Centered Communication and Outcomes in Heart Failure

Among community patients living with heart failure, excellent and good patient-centered communication was associated with a reduced risk of death.

AI’s Future in Health Care Depends on Data Standardization, Collaboration: Erin Weber, MS

Erin Weber, MS, CAQH, is hopeful that artificial intelligence (AI) will empower people rather than replace them.

Changes in Electronic Notification Volume and Primary Care Provider Burnout

Primary care provider burnout was analyzed before and after a national initiative to optimize the electronic health record inbox notification system at the Veterans Health Administration.

Exploratory Study of Selected Stakeholder Insights Into Continuous Glucose Monitoring in T2D With Risk-Sharing Agreements

A small expert panel was selected to share professional experiences with risk-sharing agreements and advance the cost-effective utilization of continuous glucose monitoring–centered care in type 2 diabetes (T2D).

Community Health Workers’ Critical Role in Trust Building Between the Medical System and Communities of Color

The authors interrogate elements of routine medical practice in New York City to argue for reforms of hospital culture through relational trust-building capabilities of community health workers.

Hypoglycemia Upon Hospital Admission From Long-term Care: Health Care Resource Use

This analysis of a hospital billing database describes inpatient length of stay, intensive care unit length of stay, comorbidities, and costs for patients with diabetes after admission with hypoglycemia from long-term care or home.

Access to Consultative Dermatologic Care via Physician-to-Physician Asynchronous Outpatient Teledermatology

Direct access of primary care physicians to dermatologists via asynchronous teledermatology improves a health system’s ability to increase patient access to dermatologic care.

Baloxavir vs Oseltamivir: Reduced Utilization and Costs in Influenza

Baloxavir, compared with oseltamivir, was associated with lower health care resource utilization and costs in patients with influenza, particularly those at high risk of secondary complications.

Predicting Hospitalizations for Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease

The authors developed an algorithm that uses medical claims to identify patients with chronic kidney disease who are at greatest risk of being hospitalized within 90 days.

Telemedicine Utilization and Preventive Services Among a Rural Population

Telemedicine use in rural areas was associated with a higher likelihood of utilizing preventive services.

Reply to “Beyond the ‘Overdiagnosis’ Narrative: Understanding Adult ADHD Through DSM-5”

The authors of “Overdiagnosis of Adult ADHD Is Exacerbating the Stimulant Shortage” reply to a letter to the editor.

Insurance-Related Differences in Chronic Conditions Data Warehouse Comorbidities of Medicare Beneficiaries

Chronic Conditions Data Warehouse comorbidity data vary by insurance status. Analyses using these data that fail to account for insurance status are subject to information bias.

Small Practice Participation and Performance in Medicare Accountable Care Organizations

Medicare beneficiaries attributed to small practices in accountable care organizations (ACOs) achieve greater savings than beneficiaries attributed to large practices in ACOs.

Evaluating Smoking Cessation Service at an Emergency Department Clinical Observation Unit

This study aimed to evaluate the impact of a smoking cessation service in a group of patients admitted to a short-stay unit in the emergency department.

Improving Patient-Centered Care in Diabetes With Comparative Effectiveness Research

Actions to Improve Quality: Results From a National Hospital Survey

Hospitals reported widespread adoption of quality improvement (QI) changes to improve on CMS quality measures, and QI adoption was associated with improved performance on quality measures.

Survey Highlights Patient, Caregiver Concerns About Topical Corticosteroids for Inflammatory Skin Disease

Inability to Access Health Care Due to COVID-19 Among Medicare Beneficiaries

Up to one-fifth of Medicare beneficiaries were unable to access health care due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.

Medicare Advantage–Pharmacy Partnership Improves Influenza and Pneumococcal Vaccination Rates

Patients whose pharmacy receives notification of their immunization gap have twice the odds of receiving immunizations compared with those whose pharmacy does not receive the notification.