September 20th 2024
The author discusses a program to prevent kidney decline and progression to dialysis by offering education, support services, and help navigating the health care system to those most at risk.
September 10th 2024
Dr Anne Morse on Assessment, Risk of Sleep Disorders in Adolescents
July 23rd 2021Anne Marie Morse, DO, pediatric neurologist and sleep medicine specialist, Geisenger, speaks on early data findings of the Wake Up and Learn program which suggested a greater risk of sleep pathology among adolescents than typically observed.
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AASM, Sleep Research Society Issue Guidance on Work Shift Duration for Employers
July 21st 2021The Academy of Sleep Medicine and the Sleep Research Society issued guiding principles for employers on designing optimal work shift durations in the workplace, which address risk factors, countermeasures, and shared decision-making implications.
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In Most of the US, Self-insured Employers Lack Power at the Bargaining Table With Hospitals
July 20th 2021In this episode of Managed Care Cast, the lead author of an article in the July issue of The American Journal of Managed Care describes the latest research that looks at the power of self-insured employers to negotiate hospital prices and the relationship between employer market power and hospital prices.
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New cases of COVID-19 are rising in all 50 states for the third consecutive day; stark increase in alcohol-associated liver disease hospitalizations reported amid the pandemic; nearly 2 dozen reports of mysterious health incidents have been observed among US personnel in Vienna, Austria.
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Assessing Investment in Telehealth, Value-Based Care Amid Return to In-Person Care
July 18th 2021Michael Thompson, president and chief executive officer of the National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions, speaks on the growth of telehealth and value-based care amid the COVID-19 pandemic, and the influence they will have on care delivery strategies in the years to come.
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MA Primary Care Payment Models Influenced Telemedicine Usage During the Pandemic, Research Shows
July 16th 2021Larger primary care practices in downside risk–only payment models and capitation saw the highest telemedicine utilization rates by their patients enrolled in Medicare Advantage (MA) plans.
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HHS officials say that fully vaccinated individuals do not need to get a booster shot; FDA issues a warning on link between the Johnson & Johnson vaccine and a rare neurological condition; California counties sue pesticide manufacturer over widely used bug killer that may cause brain damage in children and fetuses.
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Team Creates Algorithm to Allocate Gene Therapy for Patients With Inherited Vision Loss
July 11th 2021The development of a successful gene therapy for RPE65-associated inherited retinal disease is a major breakthrough, but it also prompts difficult questions about which patients are good candidates for the therapy.
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Quelling COVID-19 Also Capped Clostridioides difficile—Will It Continue?
July 6th 2021This episode of Managed Care Cast features interviews with experts who discuss how the same efforts to stamp out COVID-19 also reduced Clostridioides difficile and the prospects for such mitigation efforts to continue.
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Ambulance response services in rural communities face increasing recruitment and expense burdens; data from Israel show a decline in Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine efficacy in preventing symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection; the US Supreme Court will hear a case on 340B drug payment cuts.
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Dr Anne Morse on Contributors to Impaired Sleep in Adolescents, Pandemic-Related Implications
July 5th 2021Anne Marie Morse, DO, pediatric neurologist and sleep medicine specialist at Geisinger, discusses biologic, lifestyle, and pandemic-related factors associated with poor sleep quality in adolescents.
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Contributor: 3 Technologies to Support Health Plans Post COVID-19
July 5th 2021Health insurance companies are anticipating a swell in pent-up demand for delayed or forgone health services in 2020, as well as increased costs associated with distributing COVID-19 vaccines to millions of Americans. To offset the potentially precarious business impact caused by these converging factors, insurers are turning to technology for help.
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How Physicians, Purchasers Are Aligning Interests to Accelerate Value-Based Care Delivery
July 4th 2021Roundtable discussions between health care purchasers and physician practices highlight their aligned interest in having patients managed by a primary care physician, with other topics such as behavioral health, social determinants of health, and telehealth referenced as well.
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