Health Care Delivery

A settled class-action lawsuit paves the way for 5 million New Yorkers on Medicaid to have expanded dental coverage; 2 hospitals broke federal law by denying a woman whose life was in danger an abortion; mask mandates in most health care settings are being lifted around the United States.

A. Mark Fendrick, MD, co–editor in chief of The American Journal of Managed Care® and director of the V-BID Center at the University of Michigan, discusses how the Braidwood ruling can affect the efficacy of preventive care.

Survey findings indicate the program was an essential service during the pandemic.

A session led by Irina Koyfman, DNP, NP-C, RN, at the National Association of Managed Care Physicians (NAMCP) Spring Managed Care Forum 2023 detailed the potential of chronic care management billing for physicians who are not currently doing it and recommendations for optimizing the process.

Accelerating the safe implementation guideline-directed medical therapy has also been shown to reduce heart failure–related morbidity and mortality, underscoring the need for more integration into current care.

The study examined the prevalence of prescription medications in jails and state prisons for individuals with chronic conditions, such as asthma, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, hepatitis B and C, HIV infection, depression, and severe mental illness, compared with the general population.

The deal creates a new force in the world of value-based health care.

FDA accelerates approval of drug for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS); hundreds of thousands could lose Medicaid coverage under Republican debt bill including work requirements; the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) reports that half a million veterans have filed claims for health benefits related to toxic exposures.

The potential ethical implications for goals of care discussions between surrogate decision makers and health care providers concerning patients who reside in a state of cognitive motor dissociation were investigated in this new study from a team at Columbia University and New York Presbyterian Hospital.

A new literature review underscores how acne is separate from acne vulgaris and requires a comprehensive clinical approach unique from those for active acne.

On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we feature several leaders in diversity, equity, and inclusion advancing health equity in their respective organization’s policy and practice initiatives.

The Biden administration and drug manufacturers are looking at different ways to keep free access to COVID-19 vaccines; mifepristone remains available without new restrictions while a court battle continues; the goal to reduce HIV in the US by 2030 may fall short, some warn.

Clinicians treating patients with polycythemia vera are too reliant upon phlebotomy, data suggest.

Older age, more comorbidities, and having higher baseline inflammatory markers were among these factors.

These findings underscore the need for improved bleed protection and hemophilia care for those with all severities of the disease.

Although many topical or systemic antibiotics exist to treat acne vulgaris, the common inflammatory skin disease is not fully treatable.

Little is known about the risk of bleeding in patients with bleeding disorders who undergo major surgeries or outcomes for those managed perioperatively at hemophilia treatment centers.

Individuals with severe type 2 asthma and chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps may benefit from the biologic treatment, dupilumab.

In several abstracts presented at this year's American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting, Mitzi Joi Williams, MD, FAAN, Joi Life Wellness Neurology Clinic, explores multiple sclerosis–related outcomes in diverse patient populations.

Although children with type 1 diabetes (T1D) are slightly more likely to experience long-term educational underachievement than their peers without T1D, those who also have a psychiatric disorder have significantly lower odds of achieving educational milestones.

Although the 28-day mortality for patients with respiratory failure did not differ between patients with and without respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), complications were more common in those with RSV.

Jessica Allegretti, MD, MPH, medical director of the Crohn's and Colitis Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, reviews emerging therapeutics being investigated for the prevention and treatment of Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI).

Sleep and genetics play individual roles in increasing a person’s risk for asthma, but their combination also heightens that risk.

Most patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) said they can go about their daily activities without restriction, the authors found, because of gains in functional status and quality of life (QOL).

Although new guidelines from the CDC say that masks need not be worn in counties where transmission level for COVID-19 isn’t high, many health systems still plan to mask.