Coverage of our peer-reviewed research and news reporting in the healthcare and mainstream press.
The November issue of the Nashville Medical News highlighted 2 meetings conducted by The American Journal of Managed Care® (AJMC®) in an article that ran on page 4-6. The meetings, Patient-Centered Oncology Care in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the Institute for Value-Based Medicine in Nashville, Tennessee, featured speakers Kashyap Patel, MD, CEO of Carolina Blood and Cancer Center, and Stephen Schleicher, MD, MBA, physician and Tennessee Oncology's chair of the Quality and Value Committee at OneOncology, respectively.
A piece in Forbes, “Teva Pharmaceuticals to Resume Production of Scarce Childhood Cancer Drug Vincristine,” featured an article from AJMC®’s sister site The Center for Biosimilars® titled “Senate Bill From Collins, Smith Aims to Tackle Drug Shortages.” The article focused on a bipartisan bill introduced in the Senate that aims to address the growing issue of drug shortages.
An article by mHealth Intelligence, titled “Congress Mulls Federal Support for Specialist Consults Via Telehealth,” cited a study published in the January 2018 issue of AJMC®: “A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Cardiology eConsults for Medicaid Patients.” The study showed that a randomized trial of eConsults for cardiology referrals from primary care resulted in significant reductions in total cost of care compared with traditional face-to-face consultations.
Dr Kathy Zackowski Discusses the Importance of Rehabilitation Research and Trials in MS
April 26th 2024Kathy Zackowski, PhD, National MS Society, expresses the inherent value of quality rehabilitation trials for broadening clinical understandings of multiple sclerosis (MS) and bettering patient outcomes.
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Examining Low-Value Cancer Care Trends Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic
April 25th 2024On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we're talking with the authors of a study published in the April 2024 issue of The American Journal of Managed Care® about their findings on the rates of low-value cancer care services throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Empowering Community Health Through Wellness and Faith
April 23rd 2024To help celebrate and recognize National Minority Health Month, we are bringing you a special month-long podcast series with our Strategic Alliance Partner, UPMC Health Plan. In the third episode, Camille Clarke-Smith, EdD, MS, CHES, CPT, discusses approaching community health holistically through spiritual and community engagement.
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Kaiser Permanente was hit by a data breach in mid-April, impacting 13.4 million health plan members; GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) sued Pfizer and BioNTech for allegedly infringing on its messenger RNA technology patents in the companies’ COVID-19 vaccines; the CDC announced the first-known HIV cases transmitted via cosmetic injections.
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