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Edmund Pezalla, MD, MPH, Analyzes the Future of Medicare Advantage Plans
Edmund J. Pezalla, MD, MPH, national medical director, Aetna Pharmacy Management, suggest that the healthcare industry will continue to move in the direction of providing patients incentives to make use of health risk assessment tools and screenings.
Edmund J. Pezalla, MD, MPH, national medical director, Aetna Pharmacy Management, suggest that the healthcare industry will continue to move in the direction of providing patients incentives to make use of health risk assessment tools and screenings. He says many of his organization’s programs have already been actively reducing or eliminating copays for preventive services as well as for certain sorts of critical medications.
“Benefit designs need to support delivery system reform by encouraging the right sorts of behaviors by both the consumers as well as the providers,” Dr Pezalla stated.
Empowering Community Health Through Wellness and Faith
April 23rd 2024To help celebrate and recognize National Minority Health Month, we are bringing you a special month-long podcast series with our Strategic Alliance Partner, UPMC Health Plan. In the third episode, Camille Clarke-Smith, EdD, MS, CHES, CPT, discusses approaching community health holistically through spiritual and community engagement.
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Commonwealth Fund Report Details Pervasive Racial and Ethnic Disparities in US Health Care, Outcomes
April 18th 2024Using 25 health system performance indicators, the Commonwealth Fund 2024 State Health Disparities Report evaluated racial and ethnic disparities in health care and health outcomes both within and across US states and highlighted the urgent need for equitable health care policies and practices in the US.
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Overcoming Employment Barriers for Lasting Social Impact: Freedom House 2.0 and Pathways to Work
April 16th 2024To help celebrate and recognize National Minority Health Month, we are bringing you a special month-long podcast series with our Strategic Alliance Partner, UPMC Health Plan. Welcome to our second episode, in which we learn all about Freedom House 2.0 and the Pathways to Work program.
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The Biden administration recently launched the Global Health Security Strategy, a new effort to combat the spread of infectious diseases; lawmakers zeroed in on the risks of massive consolidation in health care during the first congressional hearing on the Change Healthcare hack; the FDA recently announced the recall of a pair of heart devices linked to numerous deaths and injuries.
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