Medicaid Enrollment Surges By More Than 1 Million In April

The tool can help clinicians stratify patients into high-risk and low-risk categories.

On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we speak with Virginia Wang, PhD, and Matthew L. Maciejewski, PhD, who talk about their recent study on racial disparities in home dialysis, and what more needs to be done to increase uptake and reduce disparities in home dialysis for non-White patients.

Older age was also a risk factor for hospitalization and death in patients with myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN) who contract COVID-19, the investigators found.

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.

Ten states remain that have not expanded Medicaid and they are unlikely to do so; FDA was aware of contaminated infant formula months before the most recent recall; Sen. Tammy Duckworth asks the Federal Trade Commission to investigate AmeriSourceBergen over its distribution practices around the brand-name of mifepristone (Mifeprex).

Research suggests allergic diseases may increase risk of osteoarthritis (OA), for which there is currently no effective cure.