Samyukta Mullangi, MD, MBA, oncology fellow at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and incoming medical director at Thyme Care, spoke on financial toxicity, heterogeneity of cancer, and other complex factors in oncology care systems that may perpetuate disparities in health care outcomes and delivery among patients.
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Dr Clyde Yancy: Redefine Greatness Through a Quest for Health Equity in Heart Failure
March 8th 2023Speaking at the 72nd American College of Cardiology Scientific Session in New Orleans on Sunday, Clyde W. Yancy, MD, MSc, the vice dean for diversity and inclusion at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University, challenged the audience to rethink what success looks like in health care.
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Reaching Rural America: Value-Based Care Solutions for Systemic Health and Social Inequalities
March 7th 2023On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we speak with Jennifer Schneider, MD, co-founder and chief executive officer of Homeward, a value-based care provider aiming to improve access to high-quality care in rural communities through tech-enabled clinical services, partnerships with local physicians and health plans, and community-level demographic data.
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Dr Sashi Naidu: Partnering With Molecular Diagnostic Labs Facilitates Advanced Cancer Care
March 6th 2023Carolina Blood and Cancer Care Associates’ No One Left Alone initiative works to dismantle cancer health disparities and increase health care equity among its rural patient population. Sashi Naidu, MD, director of research, discusses delivering next-generation sequencing testing to patients.
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Kirk Campbell, MD, FASN, vice chair for diversity, equity, and inclusion in the Department of Medicine at Mount Sinai Health System in New York, spoke on health equity efforts by his organization to improve clinical outcomes through demographic data collection, educational research, and workforce training.
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42 Health Systems Picked for PCORI Plan to Move Clinical Research to Practice
March 3rd 2023Seeking to speed up the execution of evidence-based care practices, the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) announced the 42 health systems across the country who will join a 5-year program to build capacity and implementation to improve health care outcomes.
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Building Community-Level Solutions to Address Health Disparities: A Q&A With Dr Joneigh Khaldun
March 2nd 2023Joneigh Khaldun, MD, MPH, FACEP, vice president and chief health equity officer for CVS Health, speaks on the launch of her organization’s Community Equity Alliance that aims to address structural barriers to equitable care in underserved communities through partnerships with local academic and health care institutions.
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ACCESS Tests Effect of Eliminating Co-pay on CV Outcomes
March 1st 2023Braden Manns, MD, MSc, a nephrologist and health economics researcher at the University of Calgary in Canada, will present the results of a randomized trial evaluating the impact of removing co-payments for drugs that treat chronic conditions on cardiovascular outcomes during the American College of Cardiology Scientific Sessions in New Orleans, Louisiana, on Sunday, March 5.
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Providers Need to Be Aware of Disparities in Reproductive, Infertility Care
March 1st 2023Reproductive and infertility care providers need to be aware of economic, racial, and ethnic disparities that act as barriers to care, and to work to lessen the impact of these barriers, according to a recent review.
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AHN’s Center for Inclusion Health Personalizing Equitable Care Delivery for Marginalized Communities
February 28th 2023On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we speak with Elizabeth Cuevas, MD, division chief of Allegheny Health Network’s (AHN) Center for Inclusion Health, on prevalent health inequities facing marginalized communities and strategies to identify and address these issues.
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National Primary Care Scorecard Highlights Needs for Funding, Workforce Development, and Care Access
February 23rd 2023A newly published national report reveals a lack of financing, a shrinking workforce, gaps in care access, and nearly no federal funding for research within the US primary care space.
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Joneigh Khaldun, MD, MPH, FACEP, vice president and chief health equity officer for CVS Health, speaks on the goals of the Community Equity Alliance in improving health care disparities, particularly for cardiovascular health and mental health outcomes, within underserved communities.
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Telehealth Involves More Than Making a Phone Call, Says Oncology Consultants’ Wagner
February 19th 2023We’ve found through health equity initiatives that the search for the right telehealth modality is never ending, explained Oncology Consultants of Houston’s Susan Sabo-Wagner, MSN, RN, OCN, executive director of clinical strategy.
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Dr Sashi Naidu: NOLA Initiative Is Helping Overcome Fragmented Oncology Care
February 17th 2023At Carolina Blood and Cancer Care Associates, the No One Left Alone (NOLA) initiative is working to break down cancer health disparities among its patients by addressing the social determinants of health that may be preventing equitable access to care.
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Population Health Strategies to Advance Health Equity: A Q&A With Dr Paul G. Alexander
February 15th 2023Paul G. Alexander, MD, MPH, executive vice president and chief health equity and transformation officer, RWJBarnabas Health, speaks on strategies his organization implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic to address continuity of care and communication challenges in underserved communities and further efforts to improve health equity.
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Addressing Maternal Mortality in Medicaid by Focusing on Mental Health
February 15th 2023On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we speak with Inland Empire Health Plan, a managed care plan serving more than 1.4 million residents on Medi-Cal in California, about a new maternal mental health program aimed at supporting new mothers, both before they give birth and afterward.
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Cases of SCC-Related Hospitalizations Increasing Among Patients With Multiple Myeloma
February 15th 2023Throughout this study's 12-year period, the average annual percent change showed an uptrend for all groups in hospitalization for spinal cord compression (SCC), and this was higher for non-Hispanic Black patients vs Hispanic patients and non-Hispanic White patients.
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Dr Mary Cushman: Has an "Awakening of Consciousness" Improved Certain Treatment Disparities?
February 11th 2023Mary Cushman, MD, professor of medicine at the University of Vermont, and director of the thrombosis and hemostasis program at the University of Vermont Medical Center, talks about racial disparities in pulmonary embolism treatment.
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Dr Kirk Campbell Discusses Mount Sinai’s Educational Research, Clinical Initiatives on Health Equity
February 9th 2023Kirk Campbell, MD, FASN, Vice Chair for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Department of Medicine at Mount Sinai Health System in New York, spoke on educational initiatives implemented by Mount Sinai to train resident physicians, medical students, and senior faculty on health equity, as well as further research efforts to address disparities.
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Bloodstream Infection Risk Associated With Race, SES Among Patients on Hemodialysis
February 7th 2023Data released in the CDC’s latest Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report indicate that patients with end-stage kidney disease on hemodialysis who are Black, Hispanic/Latino, or of lower socioeconomic status (SES) are at greater risk of Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infections, with Hispanic/Latino ethnicity cited as an independent risk factor.
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Intermountain Healthcare and Story Health Partner to Optimize Rural Heart Failure Care
February 7th 2023On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we speak with Tom Stanis, CEO and cofounder of Story Health, and Phillip Wood, Intermountain Ventures program director, on how their partnership came about, how it is going so far, and the future of their collaboration.
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Certain Patient Groups Continue to Be Underrepresented in PD Studies in the Netherlands
February 4th 2023With greater attention being paid to the heterogenous patient population, researchers questioned whether this has resulted in a more diverse group of patients included in Parkinson disease (PD) studies in the Netherlands.
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