May 18th 2024
Data from real-world and clinical-trial settings on frontline monotherapy treatment with the KRAS inhibitor sotorasib both show similar progression-free survivals and a high likelihood that the treatment’s efficacy is not affected with dose reduction.
AHIP and the Transforming Provider-Patient Landscape
June 21st 2013The impacts the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will have on healthcare delivery will reach far beyond the clinical level. For that reason, America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), a strategic partner of The American Journal of Managed Care, knows that cultivating collaborative discussions about health law implementation is only common sense.
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Medicare and Commercial Inpatient Resource Use: Impact of Hospital Competition
Hospitals in more competitive markets had significantly lower costs per discharge for both Medicare and privately insured patients.
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The Affordable Care Act: Implications for Clinical Practice and Research
May 21st 2013In "What Does the Affordable Care Act Actually Do?," presented by Ivor Douglas, MD, Associate Professor, University of Colorado Denver, Chief, Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine Director, Medical Intensive Care, Denver Health Medical Center, at the ATS 2013 International Conference, Dr Douglas noted that fundamental issues driving the Affordable Care Act (ACA) include access, quality, and cost.
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Dr. Colin Cooke Highlights Healthcare Reform's Effects on Pulmonary Medicine
May 21st 2013Colin Cooke, MD, MSc, Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, says that hospitals with higher readmission rates that treat patients with acute myocardial infarction, congestive heart failure, and pneumonia will be penalized due to healthcare reform.
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