Nathan H. Walcker on Expectations for Stakeholders Attending Tampa IVBM Meeting

Candida auris was first reported in the United States in 2016; the highly contagious fungal infection has been labeled an “urgent threat” by the CDC, and its spread may have aided by underresourced public health systems.

On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we speak with Jennifer Schneider, MD, co-founder and chief executive officer of Homeward, a value-based care provider aiming to improve access to high-quality care in rural communities through tech-enabled clinical services, partnerships with local physicians and health plans, and community-level demographic data.

Using the DataDerm database has uncovered disparities in prescription patterns, but it’s still early in the process of understanding why those disparities might exist, said Robert Dellavalle, MD, PhD, MSPH, and Ramiro Rodriguez, MD, both of University of Colorado School of Medicine.

On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we speak with Elizabeth Cuevas, MD, division chief of Allegheny Health Network’s (AHN) Center for Inclusion Health, on prevalent health inequities facing marginalized communities and strategies to identify and address these issues.

Lower levels of certain biomarkers were predictive of treatment response for graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) at day 28, investigators found.

Biosimilars may not be perfect, they are, at the very minimum, helping to make cancer therapies a little bit more accessible, Andre D. Harvin, PharmD, MS, executive director of pharmacy, oncology, Cone Health.