Dr Dan Malone Highlights the Key Strength of ISPOR's Annual Meeting
May 20th 2015The international representation and participation at the ISPOR 20th Annual Meeting was one of the key aspects of the meeting, held May 18-20 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, said Dan Malone, PhD, RPh, incoming president of ISPOR.
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Dr Peter P. Yu Talks About the Importance of Patient-Centered Oncology Care
May 18th 2015The American Journal of Managed Care's Patient-Centered Oncology Care meeting is an important event for anyone interested in "crossing the chasm" that appears between providers and the rest of the healthcare world, explained Peter P. Yu, MD, president of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.
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Dan Leonard Addresses Barriers to Patient Involvement in Research
May 15th 2015The industry has seen a lot of progress when it comes to involving patients more and earlier in the research progress, Dan Leonard, president of the National Pharmaceutical Council, said at the Pharmaceutical Quality Alliance's 10th Annual Meeting.
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Carolyn Quattrocki on Getting Creative to Sign Up Consumers for the Insurance Exchange Coverage
May 12th 2015The Maryland Health Connection, the state's insurance exchange, employed a number of strategies in during the second open enrollment period to get consumers signed up, explained Carolyn Quattrocki, executive director of the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange, the agency that operates Maryland Health Connection.
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Dr Anthony Slonim Highlights the Benefits of AJMC's ACO Coalition
May 1st 2015Given the diverse stakeholders in attendance, the hallway conversations at the ACO and Emerging Healthcare Delivery Coalition Spring 2015 meeting in San Diego, California, were just as interesting as the sessions, according to Anthony D. Slonim, MD, DrPH, president and chief executive officer for Renown Health, and co-chair of Coalition.
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Thomas P. Miller Explains What He Heard at the Oral Arguments of King v. Burwell
April 30th 2015Although the Supreme Court oral arguments of King v. Burwell mostly went the way people were expecting, there were a few surprises, said Thomas P. Miller, JD, resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, who was able to sit in the courtroom the day of the arguments.
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Dr Robert A. Gabbay Talks About the Importance of Patient-Centered Diabetes Care
April 18th 2015Having people from different parts of the diabetes care equation talking together at the 3rd Annual Patient-Centered Diabetes Care Meeting is what will move the industry forward, according to Robert A. Gabbay, MD, PhD, chief medical officer and senior vice president at Joslin Diabetes Center and the editor-in-chief of Evidence-Based Diabetes Management journal.
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Margaret O'Kane Says AJMC Has Helped Share Learnings Across Healthcare
April 13th 2015Medical research tends to be very segmented, but The American Journal of Managed Care (AJMC) has played an important role over the last 20 years in sharing new techniques and findings in managed care, said Margaret E. O'Kane, MHA, president of the National Committee on Quality Assurance.
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Kent Thiry on Creating Reimbursement Stability in Medicare Advantage
April 6th 2015Medicare Advantage has the potential to be the most powerful part of the solution for American healthcare, but the government needs to create reimbursement stability in order for that to happen, said Kent Thiry, chief executive officer of DaVita Healthcare Partners Inc.
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Dr Austin Frakt on the Problem of Corporate Wellness Programs
April 1st 2015The biggest problem with corporate wellness programs is that they are not as effective as they are claimed they will be, according Austin Frakt, PhD, health economist and researcher and the primary author of The Incidental Economist.
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Dr Joseph Gifford Explains the Importance of CMS Moving to Value-Based Payments
March 27th 2015HHS Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell's announcement that CMS would move to value-based payments was a nail in the coffin for those skeptics who believed the push for value contracting would pass, according to Joseph Gifford, MD, chief executive of the Providence-Swedish Health Alliance.
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Dr David Blumenthal on AJMC's Contribution to Managed Care
March 18th 2015Over the past 20 years, The American Journal of Managed Care has been a great addition to the literature on advanced care models and innovation in healthcare systems, said David Blumenthal, MD, president of The Commonwealth Fund.
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King v. Burwell Decision Could Exacerbate Disparities in the US
March 4th 2015Although the decision in King v. Burwell will not directly affect states that have set up their own health insurance exchanges, they could see some benefits, according to David Blumenthal, MD, chief executive officer of The Commonwealth Fund.
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Dr David Blumenthal Weighs in on the Effect of King v. Burwell Decision
March 3rd 2015On March 4 the Supreme Court will hear arguments in the case of King v. Burwell, which determines the fate of subsidies in the 34 federally facilitated marketplaces, and David Blumenthal, MD, chief executive officer of The Commonwealth Fund, outlined the potentially catastrophic effects if the Court were to side with the plaintiffs.
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Dr Ira Klein Discusses the CMS Oncology Care Model
February 26th 2015The goals of the new CMS Oncology Care Model align very nicely with what payers want, according to Ira M. Klein, MD, MBA, FACP, national medical director, clinical thought leadership, office of the chief medical officer, Aetna.
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Dr Robin Henderson Says Mental Health Providers Can Be Their "Own Worst Enemy"
February 25th 2015Some of the challenges with bringing as much focus to the mental well-being of patients as their physical conditions has to do with problems the healthcare industry created itself, according to Robin Henderson, PsyD.
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Dr Jeffrey Brenner Talks Hospital Super Utilizers in Camden, NJ
February 20th 2015The first job of the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers was to dig into the data of the city's hospitals and see who was using them. Half of the population, it turns out, according to Jeffrey Brenner, MD, chief executive officer of the Coalition.
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Dr Debra Patt Discusses Community Oncology Practices
February 12th 2015As community oncology clinics affiliate with hospital systems to become hospital outpatient departments, patients begin to feel the burden of higher costs of care, according to Debra Patt, MD, from Texas Oncology, a community-based practice.
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