AJMC® in the Press, April 5, 2024

Ongoing mortality gaps persist among Black and American Indian/Alaska Native patients with colorectal cancer, despite some overall improvements.

On this episode of Managed Care Cast, Brady Post, PhD, lead author of a study published in the April 2025 issue of The American Journal of Managed Care®, challenges the claim that hospital-employed physicians serve a more complex patient mix.

These guidelines act as an update to the 2016 guidelines for the use of nonoccupational postexposure prophylaxis (PEP) after exposure to HIV.

Using commercial insurance claims data and the US launch of tirzepatide as their dividing point, John Ostrominski, MD, Harvard Medical School, and his team studied trends in the use of both glucose-lowering and weight-lowering medications, comparing outcomes between adults with and without type 2 diabetes.

Primary care nurse practitioners were found to use low-value care at lower or relatively similar rates compared with the general clinician population.

The Trump administration's termination of 694 NIH grants totaled $1.81 billion by April 2025, generating significant uncertainty and concern regarding the future of US health research, especially for minority populations.