In a session presented at America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP’s) National Health Policy Conference, federal health officials and health plan representatives highlighted successes of the country’s ongoing COVID-19 vaccine rollout, placing particular emphasis on the role equity plays in distribution.
On this episode of Managed Care Cast, Sarah Carroll, MPH, director of the Center for Care Transformation at AVIA, discusses the challenges of implementing digital health in underserved populations and the potential of these solutions to better address health disparities in the United States.
A review of evidence finds that oxygen therapy may be beneficial for all patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension, not just those who develop severe hypoxemia.
Posttraumatic headache (PTH) with a migraine phenotype is associated with persistent symptoms following concussion, compared with nonmigraine PTH or no PTH, according to study results published in JAMA Network Open.
Many people who experience long-term symptoms from COVID-19 were asymptomatic when initially infected; COVID-19 patients with intellectual disabilities were shown to be more susceptible to hospitalization and death; the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine neutralizes the more contagious variant first identified in Brazil.
An abstract presented today at this year’s virtual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections lays out promising phase 1 results on a 90-day dapivirine vaginal ring for HIV prevention.
Citing 2021 as the year of the pharmacist, this year's CVS Health’s Health Trends Report discusses pressing issues for pharmacists to monitor, including availability of COVID-19 vaccines to communities nationwide, as well as integration of telehealth and behavioral health services.
Female patients and those under age 50 have a greater risk of severe asthma exacerbations and a lower health-related quality of life, despite having better lung function compared with male and older patients.
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a nationwide decrease in critical vitreoretinal surgical procedures deemed as urgent or emergent, according to findings published in JAMA Ophthalmology.
In a briefing, the White House COVID-19 Team discussed the first guidance from the CDC on activities that individuals fully vaccinated against COVID-19 can safely resume, and Anthony S. Fauci, MD, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, gave an update on antiretroviral drug development.
The House of Representatives is expected to grant final approval to the COVID-19 relief bill by Tuesday; FDA probes major baby food companies selling products containing unsafe levels of toxic heavy metals; FDA issues emergency authorization for novel test to detect past COVID-19 infection.
Robin Gelburd, JD, president of FAIR Health, discusses the dramatic increase in telehealth claims throughout 2020.
Anita Makkenchery, MD, MPH, and Brandy Farrar, PhD, discuss how the pandemic has highlighted the need for community health workers and what sets them apart from other health care professionals.
Patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) who are treated with selexipag within 6 months of their diagnosis had a reduced risk of morbidity/mortality compared with patients who were treated longer than 6 months after diagnosis.
Every week, The American Journal of Managed Care® recaps the top managed care news of the week, and you can now listen to it on our podcast, Managed Care Cast.
Vamshi Rao, MD, attending physician of Neurology at Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago discusses how new treatments will influence future care guidelines for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA).
A recent study tries to discern if treatment for chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) or CLL-like disease accelerates the risk of myeloid neoplasms.
Although 90% of patients with severe asthma choose to continue using a biologic, patients with worse disease control at baseline or with lower socioeconomic status (SES) may be more likely to cease biologic use, according to a poster presented at the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology 2021 Annual Meeting.
Asthma and immunology specialists responding to a survey about physical activity for patients with asthma were mostly unaware of any guidelines but seemed willing to learn more about how to incorporate them into practice.
In preparing for the upcoming implementation of the Interoperability and Patient Access final rule by CMS, best practices for health plans include prioritizing data mapping, sensitivity codes for privacy, and consumer-friendly language in accessible data for patients.
The American system of insurance doesn’t work, noted Robert K. Massie, Jr, PhD, MA, of the Society for Progress.
The FDA approved axicabtagene ciloleucel (Yescarta) for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed or refractory follicular lymphoma following 2 or more lines of systemic therapy.
Despite receiving specialty referrals and multiple prescriptions medications, nearly 40% of patients with an unexplained chronic cough are not given a proper diagnosis.
A review published in Cancer examines the efficacy and drawbacks of tools used to evaluate health-related quality of life in immuno-oncology clinical trials.
Preliminary study results point to a possible connection between increasing global temperatures and an increased risk of hospitalization during the course of multiple sclerosis (MS).
Elderly onset rheumatoid arthritis (RA) can be brought under control with a lower methotrexate (MTX) dosage than that required for young-onset disease.
Despite the level of disease severity of atopic dermatitis, children with the condition usually have at least 1 other inflammatory or atopic comorbidity, according to new study results.
According to an abstract to be presented at the American Academy of Neurology’s 73rd Annual Meeting, gold may be better at improving balance and fall risk among patients with Parkinson disease than Tai Chi. In addition, patients are more likely to continue the golfing exercise.
The FDA has granted full approval to lorlatinib, expanding its indication to include frontline treatment for patients with anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK)-positive metastatic NSCLC.
Study results show that patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and comorbid asthma may have a greater risk of hospitalization from COVID-19 if they use bronchodilators or steroids plus bronchodilators.
