Authors

David Weber Hood, MS
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Journey to Anticoagulant Access Following Payer Rejection of Apixaban

Formulary restrictions can create treatment barriers for patients with atrial fibrillation, including unnecessary delays in treatment and prescription abandonment, with vulnerable populations at greater risk.

Mary Ann Chapman, PhD
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Utilization Management and Physician Burnout

This survey assesses physician experiences with utilization management and burnout and investigates whether there is a link between them.

Wei Yang, MD
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Challenges of Fracture Risk Assessment in Asian and Black Women

Differences in bone density and FRAX fracture risk scores among Black and Asian women yield greater discordance in fracture risk estimation compared with White women.

Courtney Benjamin Wolk, PhD
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Impact of the Collaborative Care Model on Medical Spending

Modest spending on integrated mental health services in primary care, facilitated by use of new collaborative care billing codes, did not increase overall health care costs.

Jinghua He, PhD
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Impact of Delayed Adoption of Novel Atrial Fibrillation Treatments

Using direct oral anticoagulants as a case study, the authors examined how delayed adoption of novel treatments could impact patient health outcomes and cost.

Matthew J. DePuccio, PhD, MS
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Approaches for Overcoming Barriers to Cross-Sector Data Sharing

The authors identified challenges to cross-sector data sharing and the approaches used to overcome these challenges in the Mid-Ohio Farmacy, a partnership to address food insecurity.

Sun-Kyeong Park, PhD
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Hospital Outcomes of Male Breast Cancer in the United States

This is the first study to estimate the hospital lengths of stay and costs of male breast cancer at the US population level.

Sydney M. Dy, MD
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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.

Robert J. Rocchio, PharmD
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Behavior-Based Diabetes Management: Impact on Care, Hospitalizations, and Costs

The Diabetes Care Rewards program offers a business case for health plans to promote engagement through use of contingent incentives, thus improving health outcomes and lowering costs.

Sara Turbow, MD, MPH
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Association Between Interhospital Care Fragmentation, Readmission Diagnosis, and Outcomes

In this analysis of the National Readmissions Database, the authors investigated the association between interhospital fragmentation of care, reason for readmission, and patient outcomes.

Kathryn A. Hasenstab, MEM, BME
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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.

Trista M. Benítez, MPH
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Inappropriate Wrist MRI: Did Guidelines Have an Impact?

This article analyzes the use of MRI in a national sample of patients with wrist pain before and after consensus guideline publication.

Diane L. Seger, RPh
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A Machine Learning Technology for Addressing Medication-Related Risk in Older, Multimorbid Patients

A novel machine learning system effectively stratifies emergency department use and hospitalization risk of older patients with multimorbidity who take multiple medications and provides appropriate medication recommendations.

Eva Luo, MD, MBA

Head of Clinical Innovations at CityBlock Health

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Contributor: Addressing Physician Burnout—Work-Life Balance and Traditional Workplace Improvement Interventions

Initiatives to address physician burnout should be prioritized in a post-pandemic world, with physician shortages affecting the country.

Mamta Thawal, BSc
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Covishield India: Demystifying Myths Through an Early Multicenter Safety Study

This was a multicenter study carried out in India to study the adverse and systemic effects of the indigenously developed Covishield vaccine.

Zain Ahmed, MD
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Telehealth User Experiences During COVID-19: A Case Study of Outpatient Cardiovascular Clinics Affiliated With a Large Academic Practice

In cardiovascular clinics during COVID-19, notable barriers to successful telehealth use included obtaining diagnostic information needed to deliver high-quality care and technology-related challenges for patients.

Jason Swartz, MBOE
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Managing Total Knee Replacement Under Value-Based Payments

This article describes the approach that a large primary care group at risk for value-based payments chose to deploy in managing clinical and financial outcomes of knee osteoarthritis jointly with orthopedic surgeons.

Urvish Jain
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Value Realization: An Unattained Challenge for Integrated Practice Units

As value realization eludes integrated practice units (IPUs), the authors examine 6 key value drivers for IPU teams to competitively drive volumes and hone their multidisciplinary competencies.

Sarah Beck, MDiv
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Subjective and Objective Impacts of Ambulatory AI Scribes

Although the vast majority of physicians using an artificial intelligence (AI) scribe perceived a reduction in documentation time, those with the most actual time savings had higher relative baseline levels of documentation time.

Yochai Eisenberg, PhD
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Reply to “Industry-Informed Perspectives on the Benefits of Rideshare-Based Medical Transportation”

The authors of “Rideshare Transportation to Health Care: Evidence From a Medicaid Implementation” respond to a letter to the editor.

Steven E. Goldberg, MD, MBA
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Health Care Utilization and Cost of Diagnostic Testing for Respiratory Infections

Syndromic reverse transcriptase–polymerase chain reaction tests for respiratory infections were associated with lower health care resource utilization and costs, implicating potential for improved value in patient care.

Sarah McLarty, PharmD
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Provider and Patient Insights Into the Cancer Care Journey

A survey was conducted to determine opportunities to aid primary care providers and patients in the difficult journey of an oncology patient.

Abraham Homer, MS
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Virtual Reality Is a Game-Changer During Blood Draws for Pediatric Patients With SMA

In honor of Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) Awareness Month, Abraham Homer, MS, the gaming technology supervisor and creative technologist at Children's Hospital Colorado, shared how virtual reality transformed care for patients with SMA.

Jacqueline Ruffing, MHA
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Teamwork Enhances Patient Experience: Linking TEAM and Net Promoter Scores

In 1386 providers, better teamwork related to higher patient Net Promoter Score (NPS), and the relationship between provider experience and NPS was mediated by teamwork.

Lynn Nonnemaker, PhD
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Care Quality Metrics in Medicare During COVID-19 Pandemic

Medicare Advantage outperformed traditional Medicare on clinical quality measures before and during the COVID-19 pandemic; mid-pandemic, however, traditional Medicare narrowed the gap on some in-person screenings.

Christopher L. Moertel, MD

Christopher L. Moertel, MD, serves as medical director of the Pediatric Neuro-Oncology and Neurofibromatosis Programs and professor of pediatric hematology and oncology at the University of Minnesota.

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How Mirdametinib Improves QOL for People With NF1-Associated Plexiform Neurofibromas

Christopher L. Moertel, MD, University of Minnesota, discusses the trial data that helped get mirdametinib approved and what providers can do to keep measuring quality of life (QOL) improvements.

Thomas C. Pomfret, PharmD, MPH, BCPS
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Cost-Benefit Analysis of Sacubitril/Valsartan in a Medicaid Population

The cost avoidance of heart failure–related hospitalizations and emergency department visits may outweigh the additional drug cost in Medicaid members adherent to sacubitril/valsartan.

Guann-Ming Chang, MD, MS
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Impact of Care Coordination on 30-Day Readmission, Mortality, and Costs for Heart Failure

Enhancing coordination of care has the potential to increase the value of heart failure care.

John D. Clark, MD, PhD
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Differences in Savings and Quality by Type of ACO Model

2016-2018 Next Generation Accountable Care Organization (ACO) and Medicare Shared Savings Program cost and quality data show similar performance, suggesting that increasing financial risk to health systems may not affect performance.

Rodney L. Dunn, MS
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Accountable Care Organizations and Use of Surgery Among Patients With Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementias

The decision to pursue surgery in patients with Alzheimer disease and related dementias is challenging. Accountable care organizations may influence decisions to pursue surgery in this population.