Bridging the Gap in Health Care Inequities: Considerations in Treatment Selection, Part 1

With surveys demonstrating that care disparities in atopic dermatitis (AD) may exist among pediatric patients with the chronic skin condition, investigators set out to determine AD’s prevalence by sociodemographic subgroup.

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.

Kicking off the 2023 Greater Philadelphia Business Coalition on Health annual conference, Mark Fendrick, MD, of the University of Michigan, delivered a keynote exhorting the audience of employers and payers to implement the principles of value-based insurance design (VBID) in order to improve individual and population health and drive toward equity.

On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we speak with Bruce W. Sherman, MD, of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, about a recent study on wage-level disparities affecting the utilization of mental health resources, for which he was lead investigator; the study article appears in the April issue of The American Journal of Managed Care®.

The effect of education on survival outcomes was evaluated both overall and as it related to cardiovascular disease (CVD).

At the Pharmacy Quality Alliance (PQA) 2023 Annual Meeting, the strategy advancement lead at Humana talked more about Humana’s health equity strategy and areas that pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) and health plans can influence.