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What We're Reading: Treasury Lost Funds in Favor of ACA Insurers
What we're reading, September 30, 2016: HHS prioritized payments to Obamacare insurers over the Treasury; the CDC is concerned flu vaccinations may be down; and UnitedHealth Group and University of California come together for new partnership.
The Obama administration has prioritized payments to Obamacare insurers over the Treasury department. According to The Wall Street Journal, HHS collected fees from unions, employers, and insurance companies and favored paying those funds to insurers instead of giving the Treasury its full portion of fees. The Affordable Care Act required HHS to collect set amounts of money, but when there were shortfalls, the agency didn’t make the required payments to the Treasury.
The CDC is worried a recommendation it made earlier this year could reduce the number of people who get the flu vaccine. The flu shot is recommended for everyone 6 months or older, but the recommendation to avoid using the nasal spray version of the vaccine could prevent people from getting protected, reported The Washington Post. The nasal spray had failed to protect children for 3 years in a row. The CDC director is concerned that not having the spray could mean lower vaccination rates.
UnitedHealth Group and the University of California Health System are creating a new health plan option. Through a 10-year partnership, the 2 will form an accountable care organization for large, self-funded employers, according to California Healthline. Plus, UnitedHealth will open a research lab in San Francisco, offering researchers and physicians with university access to a national database of patient records, including claims on more than 150 million people going back 20 years.
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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Polatuzumab Vedotin and R-CHP Appropriate for Untreated DLBCL
April 24th 2024Population pharmacokinetic and exposure-response analyses revealed a favorable benefit-risk profilane for the treatment combination of polatuzumab vedotin and rituximab, cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, and prednisone (R-CHP).
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Drs Raymond Thertulien, Joseph Mikhael on Racial Disparities in Multiple Myeloma Care Access
December 28th 2023In the wake of the 2023 American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting and Exposition, Raymond Thertulien, MD, PhD, of Novant Health, and Joseph Mikhael, MD, MEd, FRCPC, FACP, chief medical officer of the International Myeloma Foundation, discussed health equity research highlights from the meeting and drivers of racial disparities in multiple myeloma outcomes.
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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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