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Health Care Utilization in Veterans With Alzheimer Disease

Veterans with Alzheimer disease (AD), identified using clinical notes, have higher health care utilization than veterans without AD.

Contributor: Beyond the Sloganeering—A Data-Driven Analysis of Recent 340B Growth

This contributor column discusses a recent study that shows the 340B Program’s explosive growth is overwhelmingly due to utilization increases, not price.

Assessment of Variation in Ambulatory Cardiac Monitoring Among Commercially Insured Patients

Ambulatory cardiac monitors’ clinical and economic outcomes vary; one long-term continuous monitor brand showed greater arrhythmia diagnosis, fewer retests and cardiovascular events, and lower health care resource use and costs.

An Accelerated Hospital Observation Pathway to Reduce Length of Stay for Patients With COVID-19

For select patients hospitalized due to COVID-19, an academic urban hospital implemented an observation pathway that incorporated mobile health technology, reducing hospital length of stay by more than 2 days.

Leveraging Longitudinal Clinical Laboratory Results to Improve Prenatal Care

Collaboration between a clinical laboratory and a managed care organization improved prenatal care and outcomes through real-time, actionable, laboratory-derived insights and care coordination.

Biosimilar Adoption, Legislative Action With PBMs: JC Scott

JC Scott, CEO and president of The Pharmaceutical Care Management Association, discusses current efforts in increasing biosimilar adoption and pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) reform.

A Learning Health Care Community: Integrating Research and Practice at Scale

This article presents a case study of how stakeholders in one state came together to integrate practice and research that is a step beyond a learning health care system.

The Biosimilar Shift: Trending Infliximab Biosimilar Utilization and Associated Cost Savings for Commercial Insurance

Infliximab biosimilars created price competition causing insurance claims costs for infliximab originator and infliximab biosimilars to decrease, generating significant savings to the health care system.

Exploring Amivantamab's Potential in Colorectal Cancer: Dirk Arnold, MD, PhD

Dirk Arnold, MD, PhD, medical director, Asklepios Tumour Biology Centre, discusses the trial design of a study comparing amivantamab with standard chemotherapy to potentially improve treatment outcomes.

Contributor: Top 3 Future Therapies to Drive Hemophilia Treatment Market Growth

The trends in the hemophilia treatment market are gaining momentum with increasing incidences of hemophilia A and B and staggering need for their treatments, including gene, anti-tissue factor pathway inhibitor, and factor replacement therapies.

Proposed Framework for Patient-Centered Outcomes-Based Measures in Alternative Payment Models

Synthesis of multistakeholder perspectives from a mixed-methods study identifies guiding characteristics for outcomes-based quality measures in future, more patient-centered alternative payment models.

Real-World Evidence Standards Bridge Research, Clinical Decision-Making: Cate Lockhart, PharmD, PhD

Real-world evidence helps pharmaceutical companies and payers communicate more effectively.

Contributor: How Health Care Companies Can Use Upskilling to Navigate the Great Resignation

The Great Resignation is sending health care workers out of the industry in massive numbers, and this, coupled with the ongoing transformation of health care, is creating the perfect storm. Alleviating their stress, burnout, and disengagement is a necessary first step. But the proper development, training, and upskilling is also crucial.

Knowledge, Attitude, and Practices Regarding ChatGPT Among Health Care Professionals

This web-based cross-sectional study indicated that health care professionals in China had poor knowledge, positive attitudes, and proactive practices in regard to ChatGPT.

Out-of-Pocket Spending for Cardiac Rehabilitation and Adherence Among US Adults

Among commercial and Medicare supplemental beneficiaries with cost sharing, higher out-of-pocket spending for the first cardiac rehabilitation session was associated with lower program adherence.

Distinct Health Care Use Patterns of Patients With Chronic Gastrointestinal Diseases

Patients with complex chronic disease can be grouped by varying propensity for health care continuity patterns, which could be harnessed to personalize health care utilization interventions.

AHA Telemetry Guidelines Improve Telemetry Utilization in the Inpatient Setting

Using Plan-Do-Study-Act cycles, the studied intervention reduced hospital inpatient telemetry time by 51.25% while increasing American Heart Association (AHA) guideline–based usage.

Challenges With Implementing the Diabetes Prevention Program for Medicare Beneficiaries in an Integrated Health System

This study presents challenges of implementing the CDC-approved Diabetes Prevention Program for Medicare beneficiaries at a large, integrated health care delivery system.

Temporal Shift in Prevalence of Heart Failure Diagnoses and Comorbidities Within 2 US Integrated Health Systems

The analysis highlighted a shift in heart failure diagnoses, with hypertensive heart disease with and without chronic kidney disease as prevalent diagnoses, underlining coding variability and implications for research.

Accountable Care Organizations and HPV Vaccine Uptake: A Multilevel Analysis

The authors evaluated whether adolescents receiving care at accountable care organizations (ACOs) vs non-ACOs were more likely to initiate and complete the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination series.

Pharmacists and Transitions of Care From Emergency Department to Home

Pharmacists’ roles in transitions of care continue to evolve. Evaluation of pharmacist-led interventions as patients transition from emergency department to home is needed.

Determinants of Hospital Charges and Costs in Acute Myocardial Infarction: A Report from the Myocardial Infarction Cost Study (MICS) Group

Participating Faculty: Payer and Provider Solutions to Utilization Management Challenges in the Management of Rare Hematologic Cancers

Endoscopist-Directed Sedation Rarely Fails: Implications for the Value of Anesthesia Assistance for Routine GI Endoscopy

Failed sedation for routine gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy is extremely rare, warranting a return to endoscopist-directed sedation, rather than costly anesthesia-assisted sedation, as the default sedation standard.

The Hepatitis B Care Cascade Using Administrative Claims Data, 2016

Analysis of a large, nationally representative claims database to longitudinally monitor enrollees with hepatitis B showed that 36% received recommended care and 18% were prescribed treatment.

Interventional Analytics in Skilled Nursing Facilities Associated With Reduced Readmissions

A retrospective analysis of 30-day risk-adjusted readmission rates among skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) between 2017 and 2022 compared those that had implemented an interventional analytics platform and other SNFs.

Pharmacist Hypertension Management Using an Electronic Health Record–Based Approach

The authors studied the impact of a pharmacist intervention on blood pressure control compared with usual care.

Benefit Design and Consumer Information: Results From a Randomized Trial

Findings from a randomized controlled trial on reducing information barriers for consumers selecting primary care clinics in a tiered network design demonstrate limited marginal effect of the intervention.

Questions Linger About COVID-19’s Origin

Contributor: How Payers Are Applying AI to Solve the Problem of Incomplete Data—3 Use Cases

In this column, Calum Yacoubian, MD, outlines how artificial intelligence, specifically, natural language processing, can help address gaps in patient data.