This week, the top managed care stories included Purdue Pharma filing for bankruptcy; new data showing the number of people who get screened for HIV at least once falls far short of what CDC recommends; findings that most US hospital markets are now highly concentrated.
The lack of awareness for HPV vaccination contributes to skewed public knowledge, which leaves many at risk for HPV related cancers.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi unveiled her plan to lower drug prices by giving the government the ability to negotiate prices for up to 250 of the costliest drugs, including insulin; slapping pharmaceutical companies with penalties if they refuse to negotiate; and seeking Medicare rebates from drug makers if they raise prices beyond inflation.
Research on associations between the female hormonal life course and type 2 diabetes was shared at the 55th Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes 2019 in Barcelona, Spain.
The researchers of the study argue that emergency departments (EDs) should not just be leveraged to diagnose HIV; they must also be proactive and initiate treatment, as well as facilitate follow-up case management and linkage to care outside of the ED.
More women and their children are surviving today than ever before; the FDA has been quietly pressuring several companies to stop offering patients genetic test results that indicate how their genes may react to certain drugs; there has been an uptick in the number of US illnesses and deaths resulting from a rare mosquito-borne virus.
There are intrinsically 3 parameters for a care delivery system to become a value-based model: delivering the right care, at the right time, and at the right price.
Terazosin, a drug used to treat enlarged prostate, may also be able to slow the progression of Parkinson disease.
CMS made an “error of law” when it tried to expand a site-neutral payment system, a federal judge ruled.
Individuals with HIV are often susceptible to opportunistic pulmonary infections, but the lung lesions resulting from these infections can be mistaken for lung cancer, according to a new study that aimed to characterize features of OPIs versus tumors in patients with HIV.
Patients with polycythemia vera and essential thrombocythemia may be able to reduce their symptoms through a low-cost drug used to treat rheumatoid arthritis (RA), according to a new study in British Journal of Haematology.
Getting Americans in rural areas the right care at the right time is an issue that must be tackled at all levels. Ongoing efforts to coordinate care management and resources can prove beneficial for the rural communities that need it most.
Tennessee has unveiled its proposal to turn the state's Medicaid program into a block grant; the number of abortions across the country have dropped to the lowest levels since the procedure became legal nationwide; New York has temporaily banned the sale of e-cigarettes and nicotine e-liquids.
Acute myeloid leukemia is the most common acute adult cancer diagnosed in the United States; 61,000 Americans are living with this disease and more than 10,000 will die of it this year.
CMS' new radiation oncology payment model is slated to begin on January 1, 2020, but the significant billing changes that the model requires will require more time.
The importance of sleep is magnified for patients with Alzheimer disease (AD), who commonly experience sleep disturbances due to changes in their neurotransmitter systems. However, the impact of AD and other dementias on sleep is also seen among caregivers of patients with dementia.
As rising drug costs continue to take up a larger portion of the total cost of care, practices in the Oncology Care Model find themselves in control of a shrinking portion of total costs, according to anecdotes from an academic medical center and a community-based practice during the National Comprehensive Cancer Network’s Policy Summit held September 12 in Washington, DC.
Sessions and posters from the 35th Congress of the European Committee for Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis discussed various ways to measure patient-reported outcomes in multiple sclerosis.
The Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI) Tuesday released their final Healthy Marketplace Index, which also showed that 69% of markets studied showed an increase in concentration.
The FDA grants fast track designation of AstraZeneca's dapagliflozin; California to conduct public awareness campaign against vaping; no new US measles cases.
Researchers found that post-chemotherapy minimal residual disease (MRD) subtypes were associated with a pattern of failure and time to failure.
Oncologists may be able to use circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) to guide treatment decisions and predict which patients will have disease recurrence, according to 2 studies in JAMA Oncology.
Amgen recently announced early phase 3 CANDOR study data, showing the triple-drug combination of carfilzomib (Kyprolis), along with dexamethasone and daratumumab (Darzalex, sold by Janssen), met its primary end point of progression-free survival in patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma, with a 37% reduction in the risk of progression or death.
The leaders of the Energy and Commerce Committee sent letters to 3 private equity firms seeking information. The committee has already unanimously voted out the No Surprises Act to protect consumers.
The sleep timing preferences and patterns of adolescent girls are linked to an increased risk for obesity, with weaker, albeit non-significant, associations observed in boys, according to a new study.
The researchers found that HIV significantly increases the risk of atrial fibrillation—a leading cause of stroke—at the same rate as or higher than known risk factors, including diabetes and hypertension.
Oxycontin manufacturer Purdue Pharma files for bankruptcy; the rise in uninsured immigrants may be associated with fear of the Trump administration's crackdown on immigrants; an investigation has found that some cannabidiol (CBD) products are being spiked in Maryland.
Up to 12% of pharmacy spending may be on high-cost, low-value drugs that can be removed from formularies.
Using national electronic health record information on more than 40 million patients over a 20-year period, researchers have found that the proportion of Americans older than 18 years who have had a prior HIV test could be as low as 6.4%. However, they noted several limitations of their analysis.
Intensive lifestyle intervention focusing on weight loss may reduce cardiovascular events in selected type 2 diabetes patients yet have a detrimental treatment effect in some, according to recent research.