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What We're Reading: Continued Lack of Awareness of Premium Subsidies
What we're reading, October 26, 2015: One-third of uninsured in California are unaware of premium subsidies and medical school enrollment among black men is down.
Unaware Uninsured
With open enrollment for the Affordable Care Act just days away, a new survey has found that more than one-third of uninsured Californians are unaware of premium subsidies, reported the LA Times. In contrast, only 16% didn’t know about the tax penalty for not having coverage.
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Bringing Drug Prices in Line With Value
Experts taking part in a panel hosted by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health said that drug makers cannot be allowed to continue setting any price they choose for medications. Instead, the prices of these treatments need to be brought in line with the value they provide, reported Reuters. The experts viewed calls to allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices as unrealistic or problematic.
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Fewer Black Men Applying to Medical School
Kaiser Health News reported that although more black men than before are graduating from college, the number applying to medical school has dropped and is now lower than the number who applied in 1978. This is the only minority group with a decrease in applications.
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Examining Low-Value Cancer Care Trends Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic
April 25th 2024On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we're talking with the authors of a study published in the April 2024 issue of The American Journal of Managed Care® about their findings on the rates of low-value cancer care services throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Dr Dalia Rotstein: Physicians Must Be Aware MS Affects People of All Backgrounds
April 24th 2024Dalia Rotstein, MD, MPH, emphazises the importance of awareness that multiple sclerosis (MS) impacts patients from various backgrounds as clinicians think through ways to improve access to care and research efforts in MS.
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Navigating Health Literacy, Social Determinants, and Discrimination in National Health Plans
February 13th 2024On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we're talking with the authors of a study published in the February 2024 issue of The American Journal of Managed Care® about their findings on how health plans can screen for health literacy, social determinants of health, and perceived health care discrimination.
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What We’re Reading: Abortion Privacy Rules; Alzheimer Drug Hurdles; Nursing Home Staffing Overhaul
April 23rd 2024New health privacy rules aim to protect patients and providers in an evolving abortion landscape; some physicians express concerns about efficacy, risks, and entrenched beliefs in treating Alzheimer disease; CMS addresses longstanding staffing deficits in nursing homes.
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Award-Winning Poster Presentations From AMCP 2024
April 23rd 2024At the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) 2024 annual meeting, multiple poster presentations concerned with health equity, data collection, glucagon-like peptide-1 agonists, and more were acknowledged for their originality, relevance, clarity, bias, and quality.
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