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COVID-19 Boosters Crucial for Patients With Cancer Despite Low Uptake

July 17th 2025

Despite offering significant protection against severe COVID-19, patients with cancer, a high-risk group, showed low uptake of booster vaccinations.

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Ensuring Coverage of Faster Biomarker Testing in Lung Cancer: Robert Kratzke, MD

By Hayden E. Klein
Robert Kratzke, MD

July 15th 2025

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Cachexia Worsens Prognosis in Older Patients With Advanced SCLC

By Jared Kaltwasser

July 9th 2025

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Insurance Gaps Threaten Cancer Treatment Success

By Maggie L. Shaw

July 7th 2025

Analyzed by birth cohort, the authors found each successive birth cohort had a 7.7% decline in SCLC rates. | Image credit: shidlovski

Decline in SCLC Incidence Expected to Accelerate Through 2050

By Jared Kaltwasser

June 29th 2025

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The Economics of Transthyretin-Mediated Amyloidosis: Balancing Equity and Access in Resource Allocation

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Advancing Immunotherapy in Endometrial Cancer: A Managed Care Perspective on Personalized Care

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January 20th 2018

Dr Roger Brito Discusses Implementing Alternative Payment Models and Its Challenges

Aetna is focusing on the healthcare triangle (patients, providers, and payers) and connecting those lines, said Roger Brito, DO, national director for oncology, Aetna.

January 19th 2018

This Week in Managed Care: January 19, 2018

This week in managed care, the top stories included the announcement that Kentucky is the first state approved to require patients work to receive Medicaid benefits; FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, MD, reveals a new program to improve clinical trial transparency; research finds the worst cases of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder could lower life expectancy.

January 19th 2018

Risk-Targeted Lung Cancer Screening Shows Modest Benefits

Samantha DiGrande

Although risk targeting may improve screening efficiency in terms of early lung cancer mortality per person screened, the gains in efficiency are modest in terms of life-years, quality-adjusted life-years, and cost-effectiveness, according to a study recently published in Annals of Internal Medicine.

January 19th 2018

Terrill Jordan Discusses the Process of Customizing an EMR to Adapt to OCM

In order to adapt to the Oncology Care Model (OCM), Regional Cancer Care Associates had to undergo the process of adjusting and customizing its electronic medical records, explained CEO Terrill Jordan.

January 19th 2018

Horizon, RCCA Launch Pilot to Close Care Gaps Between Cancer Treatments

Mary Caffrey

New Jersey's largest payer will track a host of measures, including some that will evaluate the quality of end-of-life care.

January 18th 2018

Dr Mark Fendrick: Setting Cost-Sharing Based on Value, Not Price, in Cancer Care

We should try to remove barriers that are not only in place, but getting higher for clinicians and patients to get evidence-based care, said A. Mark Fendrick, MD, director of the Center for Value-Based Insurance Design at the University of Michigan.

January 18th 2018

Electronic Health Record Problem Lists: Accurate Enough for Risk Adjustment?

Timothy J. Daskivich, MD, MSHPM Garen Abedi, MD, MS Sherrie H. Kaplan, PhD, MPH Douglas Skarecky, BS Thomas Ahlering, MD Brennan Spiegel, MD, MSHS Mark S. Litwin, MD, MPH Sheldon Greenfield, MD

Electronic health record (EHR)-based comorbidity assessment had low sensitivity for identifying major comorbidities and poorly predicted survival. EHR-based comorbidity data require validation prior to application to risk adjustment.

January 18th 2018

Study Finds Protein Markers May Better Predict Drug Response in Patients With AML Than Genetic Mutations

AJMC Staff

A study finds that protein markers may be a better predictor of drug response than genetic mutation are in patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). As a result, some patients who could benefit from treatment may not be eligible under current approval specifications.

January 16th 2018

Poor Baseline LIPI Associated With Worse Outcomes for ICI Treatment in Patients With NSCLC

Jaime Rosenberg

Poor baseline Lung Immune Prognistic Index (combining derived neutrophils ratio greater than 3 and lactate dehydrogenase greater than upper limit of normal), or LIPI, was associated with worse outcomes for immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) treatment in patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), but not with results of chemotherapy, according to a study in JAMA Oncology.

January 16th 2018

What We're Reading: Language of Medicine; Uninsured Number Grows; 3D Mammograms

AJMC Staff

The language used by doctors contributes to why patients don't understand what they are told; the number of American adults without health insurance grew 1.3 percentage points from the end of 2016 to the end of 2017; women are increasingly faced with the decision between 2D and 3D mammograms.

January 14th 2018

Julie Wolfson: Supporting AYAs Before and After Treatment

The challenges that adolescents and young adults face before and after treatment are all unique to an individual patient, according to Julie Wolfson, MD, of the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine.

January 13th 2018

FDA Approves Olaparib for Breast Cancer With a BRCA Gene Mutation

Jaime Rosenberg

The approval expands the use of olaparib to include the treatment of patients with BRCA-mutated HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer. The FDA also expanded the approval of Myriad’s BRCAnalysis CDx, a companion diagnostic to olaparib, to include the detection of BRCA mutations.

January 12th 2018

Dr Jeff Patton Discusses Preparing for OCM, Seeing Improved Outcomes and Savings

It’s very unusual to see significant cost savings in the first year of a program; that was true of all the pioneer ACO programs, said Jeff Patton, MD, CEO of Tennessee Oncology.

January 12th 2018

Over Half of Octogenarians, Nonagenarians With NSCLC Do Not Receive Treatment

Jaime Rosenberg

More than half of octogenarians and nonagenarians with stage III non–small-cell lung cancer did not receive treatment, according to a study in CANCER. Older age, black race, and living in a lower educated census tract were found to be risk factors for not receiving treatment.

January 11th 2018

Dr Peter Aran on Involving Providers in Development Process of New Reimbursement Models

Involving providers in the development process of new reimbursement models increases the chance that the initiative will be successful and works against caregiver burnout, said Peter Aran, MD, medical director of Population Health Management at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Oklahoma.

January 11th 2018

AstraZeneca's Osimertinib on Track for First-Line Treatment of NSCLC With a Specific Mutation

Allison Inserro

AstraZeneca’s epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) inhibitor, osimertinib (Tagrisso), is on the fast track in 2018 to become a first-line treatment for adult patients with locally-advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) whose tumors have EGFR mutations.

January 11th 2018

Lenvatinib, Pembrolizumab Combination Therapy for Patients With RCC Granted Breakthrough Therapy Designation

Jaime Rosenberg

Eisai’s multiple receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitor lenvatinib and Merck’s anti–PD-1 therapy pembrolizumab as a combination therapy for patients with renal cell carcinoma received the designation based on results from the renal cell carcinoma cohort in Study 111.

January 10th 2018

Sarah Cevallos on Her Advice for Practices Looking to Participate in OCM

Don’t underestimate the power that it takes to make sure a value-based program is working, said Sarah Cevallos, chief revenue cycle officer, Florida Cancer Specialists.

January 9th 2018

US Cancer Mortality Rates Continue to Drop, According to New Report

Jaime Rosenberg

A report from the American Cancer Society estimated new cancer cases and deaths for 2018 and took a look at the most recent data to determine cancer incidence through 2014 and mortality through 2015.

January 9th 2018

Dr Roger Brito: What Patients Should Know About Alternative Payment Models, OCM

The healthcare triangle (patients, payers, and providers) begins with the patient, so we should include the patient in some of the decision-making, said Roger Brito, DO, national director for oncology, Aetna.

January 9th 2018

FDA Approves Denosumab for Prevention of Skeletal-Related Events in Patients with Multiple Myeloma

Jaime Rosenberg

The approval will expand the currently approved indication for the prevention of skeletal-related events in patients with bone metastases from solid tumors to also include patients with multiple myeloma.

January 7th 2018

Combination Therapy May Benefit Subset of Patients With CLL Who Have Poor Response to Ibrutinib

AJMC Staff

A subset of patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) with highly expressed CD49d have poorer outcomes while on Bruton’s tyrosine kinase (BTK) inhibitor ibrutinib, which antagonizes B-cell receptor (BCR) signals. However, a team of researchers may have found a way to treat these patients.

January 7th 2018

Dr Mark Fendrick on Indication-Based Drug Pricing in Cancer Care

The fact that you have certain drugs that treat numerous cancers, and that they may treat 1 cancer different or better than another, would suggest that we should probably have differential pricing models, said A. Mark Fendrick, MD, director of the Center for Value-Based Insurance Design at the University of Michigan.

January 6th 2018

Study Examines Cost-Effectiveness in Multiple Myeloma Treatments

Kaitlynn Ely

New drugs to treat multiple myeloma (MM) have provided clinical benefits, but a study published in the Journal of Managed Care & Specialty Pharmacy found not all of them can be considered cost effective.

January 6th 2018

Study Examines Cost-Effectiveness in Multiple Myeloma Treatments

Kaitlynn Ely

January 5th 2018

Patients With Small-Cell Lung Cancer Face Barriers to Combined-Modality Therapy

Jaime Rosenberg

While chemotherapy with thoracic radiation has been established as the standard of care for the initial treatment of non-metastatic small-cell lung cancer, a large proportion of patients do not receive these treatments and in turn have lower overall survival, according to a study published in JAMA Oncology.

January 5th 2018

AJMC® in the Press, January 5, 2018

AJMC Staff

Coverage of our peer-reviewed research and news reporting in the healthcare and mainstream press.

January 5th 2018

Bo Gamble on COA's Role in 2018

Bo Gamble, director of Strategic Practice Initiatives at the Community Oncology Alliance (COA), believes that broadening communication and education is COA’s main goal in 2018.

January 4th 2018

Judy Berger on What Southwest Airlines Is Doing in Oncology

Southwest Airlines has set up a split fill program, pharmacy benefit manager, health advocacy program, and a cancer resource guide for employees, said Judy Berger, senior manager, benefits planning, Southwest Airlines.

January 4th 2018

Judge Dismisses Challenge to 340B Cuts, Final Rule Goes Into Effect

Jaime Rosenberg

A federal judge dismissed a move to block 340B cuts days before CMS’ final rule on it went into effect.

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