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Investigators sought to better understand increasing price trends, including those seen among disease-modifying drugs to treat multiple sclerosis (MS) and other neurological diseases.

Heart failure has been shown to be a contributing factor in more deaths in rural vs urban counties in which cardiovascular disease was pinpointed as the underlying cause of death.

Length of stay outliers are associated with hospital-acquired infections, complications, and discharge to facility, as opposed to nonmodifiable risk factors like age and comorbidities.

Citing 2021 as the year of the pharmacist, this year's CVS Health’s Health Trends Report discusses pressing issues for pharmacists to monitor, including availability of COVID-19 vaccines to communities nationwide, as well as integration of telehealth and behavioral health services.

In a briefing, the White House COVID-19 Team discussed the first guidance from the CDC on activities that individuals fully vaccinated against COVID-19 can safely resume, and Anthony S. Fauci, MD, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, gave an update on antiretroviral drug development.

Every week, The American Journal of Managed Care® recaps the top managed care news of the week, and you can now listen to it on our podcast, Managed Care Cast.

According to new research, 88% of trials initially matched to patients were eventually classified as false positives when manually screened by a provider.

A retrospective study looking at pediatric patients hospitalized in 4 New York hospitals in 2020 with COVID-19 or multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) found that acute kidney injury (AKI) occurred in 11.8% of patients.

Asthma and immunology specialists responding to a survey about physical activity for patients with asthma were mostly unaware of any guidelines but seemed willing to learn more about how to incorporate them into practice.

In preparing for the upcoming implementation of the Interoperability and Patient Access final rule by CMS, best practices for health plans include prioritizing data mapping, sensitivity codes for privacy, and consumer-friendly language in accessible data for patients.

Despite receiving specialty referrals and multiple prescriptions medications, nearly 40% of patients with an unexplained chronic cough are not given a proper diagnosis.

Despite benefitting from organ transplants similarly to other patients with kidney failure, a new study found patients with kidney failure associated with sickle cell disease (SCD) are less likely to receive transplants.

A lack of pharmacies in rural America could complicate COVID-19 vaccine rollout; over 200,000 Americans enrolled in Affordable Care Act plans during special period; wealthy, older residents in Florida receive COVID-19 vaccines.

On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we speak with Sheri Winsper, the senior vice president for quality measurement at the National Quality Forum, to discuss how the forum plans to devise national telehealth quality metrics.

Most orphan drug spending does not actually go to patients with rare diseases, a new study shows.

The first batch of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine will be shipped today to states and pharmacies nationwide; Anthony Fauci, MD, says elementary school-aged children very likely to able to be vaccinated by first quarter 2022; special clinics nationwide try to treat COVID-19 survivors who continue to experience long-term symptoms.

Every week, The American Journal of Managed Care® recaps the top managed care news of the week, and you can now listen to it on our podcast, Managed Care Cast.

Jeffrey Hogan, Northeast regional manager of the Rogers Benefit Group and member of the Board of Directors for the Connecticut Business Group on Health, discussed how his organization helped providers navigate some of the challenges posed by the pandemic.

The FDA granted emergency use authorization (EUA) for the distribution of the nation's third COVID-19 vaccine, and on Sunday, a CDC panel will meet to decide on recommendations to put it into practice.

Use of a specialty pharmacy to take over the management of prior authorization (PA) requests for a dermatology practice significantly reduced the time to a decision and also decreased the time it took to fill the medication.

The substitution of telemedicine for many in-person HIV services during the COVID-19 pandemic has produced mixed results, with persons living with HIV increasingly lost to follow-up despite favorable views of this method of care delivery.

An FDA advisory panel Friday unanimously endorsed the third US COVID-19 vaccine, a 1-shot vaccine produced by Janssen, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson (J&J), and an emergency use authorization by the FDA is expected to follow shortly.

On this edition of Managed Care Cast, we present a short excerpt from a January webinar titled “Color and COVID-19: The Virus’ Disproportionate Impact” hosted by the MJH Life Sciences™ COVID-19 Coalition about how the pandemic has had an unequal, devastating impact on communities of color.

Multimorbidity affects 1 in 4 US adults and leads to increased health care use and lower quality of life.

Older patients are at greater risk of death in the earliest stages of dialysis, while females possibly are at a higher risk than men, a review of studies found.

Patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) healthy enough not to have seen a specialist have higher hospitalization rates than the general population, according to a recent study.

The Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus disease 2019 vaccine can be stored at higher temperatures; the Biden administration pledges $4 billion over 2 years to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance; Medicare payments will soon decrease for hundreds of hospitals.

Hypertension, anemia, and infection were the most common adverse events associated with mantle cell lymphoma (MCL), while hepatotoxicity, stroke, and renal failure were the costliest per patient.

An article by Willis Towers Watson discusses how employers are supporting their respective workforce amid the pandemic, with education of approved vaccines and effective communication channels with state and local health departments referenced as key actions to be taken at this time.

On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we highlight a new feature on AJMC.com, the website of The American Journal of Managed Care®, called Clinical Spotlight, where our editors provide a series of interviews with leading experts in certain specialties.