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An interview with The American Journal of Managed Care about the PAN Challenge grant.

The Patients' Access to Treatments Act of 2015 was introduced earlier this year to rein in the high cost-sharing requirements for specialty drugs.

Feelings remain mixed among patients, medical records staff, and physicians on a number of functions associated with electronic patient records.

Priority has seen about a 40% reduction in acute inpatient hospitalizations, 50% reduction in emergency department (ED) visits, and a 30% drop in per-member-per month costs among 300 of its chronically ill enrollees.

The newly insured came to Medicaid with medical issues that had gone unaddressed for years. The same problem has been cited by insurers who have asked for large rate increases for 2016 for plans on the exchanges.

The 17th annual HealthCare's Most Wire Survey indicates that hospitals are beginning to utilize information technology to send and share information across care settings.

CDC report estimates that the Affordable Care Act could lead to 111,000 fewer new coronary heart disease events and 95,000 fewer CVD-related deaths by 2050.

The top story of the week was Aetna's purchase of Humana, which signals a growth in government managed care. In addition, the 340B drug discount program came under fire after a report from the Government Accountability Office.

The concept of value may be, and is, interpreted differently among healthcare stakeholders, and not only do cancer patients define value differently from policy makers, but also from other patients.

How can the US increase value for the money we spend in maternity care? This is an important question that must be considered more broadly than individual patient choices or clinician decisions.

President Barack Obama has nominated Andy Slavitt to become the new administrator of CMS.

The rule for restaurants and other food retailers is delayed until December 2016 to allow more discussions on how it will apply in many specific situations. Food labeling with calorie counts is mandated by the Affordable Care Act.

By an overwhelming majority, the House of Representatives approved the 21st Century Cures Act, which stands advance big data and precision medicine and strengthen the National Institutes of Health and FDA.

A study published in the journal AIDS and Behaviour found community-based HIV prevention programs resulted in $6.5 billion in savings to Ontario's healthcare system.

There is an important mismatch existing between the types of treatments proposed by patients and clinicians and those being researched.

Individuals living with a combination of diabetes and cardiovascular disease are more likely to have a shorter life expectancy, researchers from the University of Cambridge found.

As information technology is becoming ever more prevalent in patient care, researchers analyzed the role these technologies play in patient care in an emergency department setting in a study published in JMIR mHealth and uHealth.

A study published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons evaluated whether the reducing resident duty hours improved surgical outcomes of patients.

A study of Kaiser Permanente cancer patients found that two-thirds of teen and young adult patients received aggressive care at the end of life. The special issue on the topic comes as CMS proposes paying doctors or nurses to discuss advanced care planning.

Healthcare spending for children covered by employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) rising faster than the rest of the ESI population, Health Care Cost Institute report finds.

A new study published in Neurology, has shown that long-term inflammation in older patients with diabetes can also hasten their cognitive decline.

As CMS continues to transform the Medicare program to a quality- and outcomes-based system, the agency is proposing to support patient- and family-centered care for Medicare beneficiaries by enabling them to discuss advance care planning with their providers.

Kaiser Permanente's highly successful integrated healthcare delivery model has been a tough act for other healthcare systems to follow, and new research suggests their nurses might be the key.

Despite efforts by states to introduce legislation to make healthcare pricing information more accessible for consumers, most states still receive an F grade, according to the third annual Report Card on State Price Transparency Laws.

Cigna and Providence-Swedish Health Alliance ACO in Western Washington recently launched a care collaboration initiative that will benefit more than 7100 individuals who are covered by a Cigna health plan.

While a better understanding has led to a drop in the colorectal cancer death rate by half, the progress made in the last few decades has not been equal across the United States, according to a study published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention.

Till Kalydeco was approved, cystic fibrosis patients primarily received only disease management support to extend their lives.

The study found that 45% of those who used heroin were addicted to opioid prescription drugs. CDC cites several studies showing clear connections between the rise of opioid abuse and heroin use and deaths, especially since 2010.

In part 1 of "First Do No Harm," Ms Madden noted important new research suggesting that the majority of patients with HER2+ breast cancer who are treated with the anti-HER2 agent trastuzumab do not receive sufficient cardiac monitoring. In part 2, she discusses the implications of this recent study for patients with this aggressive form of breast cancer and protective strategies against preventable harms of their treatment.

The widespread use of screening mammography increases the probability of detecting smaller cancers without a decline in the detection of large cancers.