August 2024

The proportion of allergists accepting Medicaid in the US varied significantly among and within states.

This commentary explores how 2 recently published studies evaluating the clinical benefit of the FDA’s accelerated approval program for oncology drugs came to different conclusions.

A novel machine learning system effectively stratifies emergency department use and hospitalization risk of older patients with multimorbidity who take multiple medications and provides appropriate medication recommendations.

Medicare Advantage customer service supports a less healthy, higher-need population, indicating that it should be designed and staffed to effectively serve complex, high-need patients.

Hospitals pursue a broad range of efforts to improve quality, with those participating in bundled payments attempting to reduce postacute care to a greater degree than nonparticipants.

This article describes the trajectory of adherence patterns among users of sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors. The authors found that baseline factors were unable to predict the adherence trajectory groups.

Real-world cross-validation of insurer and hospital price transparency data finds low overlap but high concordance between data sources.

This article reviews the obesity epidemic in America and discusses inadequate insurance coverage.

The authors advocate for a consideration of 2 distinct phases of obesity management (ie, active weight loss and maintenance of weight loss) to allow substantially more people access to antiobesity medications.

Compared with usual care, a dementia care management program improved various cost of care and utilization metrics in a Medicare managed care population at 12 months.