March 2024

This article reviews barriers to diabetic eye health across Alabama and highlights a partnership with Genentech and the American Diabetes Association to address this issue.

Through accountable care organizations, physicians are leveraging data and partnerships to create an efficient, quality-oriented system focused on improving patient outcomes and addressing health disparities.

Getting weight loss drugs into the hands of those who need them could be a matter of changing pricing models to give more patients access to the medication they need.

At an Institute for Value-Based Medicine® event cohosted by The American Journal of Managed Care® and Optum, speakers emphasized that innovation is urgently needed in primary care delivery to address the broken US health care system.

At an Institute for Value-Based Medicine® event held in Phoenix, Arizona, experts from Banner Health and Aetna discussed how health inequities and social determinants of health can affect primary care in patients with any type of insurance.

“These autosomal diseases, from an inheritance standpoint, affect men and women equally, but because of their impact on the gynecological system and menses, women are often affected much more than men," hematologist Donna DiMichele, MD, explains.