Year-End Spending Bill to Feature Reforms for Pharmacy Benefit Managers and Telehealth Access
December 18th 2024The health care provisions include key reforms targeting pharmacy benefit managers, extensions of Medicare telehealth flexibilities, and measures aimed at combating the opioid crisis and preparing for future pandemics.
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A Standardized Care Pathway Increases Optimal Dialysis Starts
The authors observed a significant increase in optimal starts for dialysis and in peritoneal dialysis rates after implementing a standardized end-stage renal disease transition pathway.
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Health Equity & Access Weekly Roundup: December 15, 2024
December 15th 2024Recent analyses spotlight inequities in health care, from the financial burdens faced by employees at small firms due to higher insurance costs to disparities in data and ovarian cancer survival among racial and ethnic groups.
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Experts Pinpoint AI, Predictive Analytics as Key to Addressing Health Care Challenges
December 13th 2024Experts at the Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare (CAQH) Connect 2024 emphasized the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI) and predictive analytics in addressing health care challenges, advancing equity, and reducing clinician burden.
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New Study Evaluates Quality-of-Life Instruments for Patients With PAH
December 12th 2024A systematic review of quality-of-life tools available specifically for pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) reveals that although several instruments demonstrate strong psychometric properties and reliability, significant gaps remain in these tools' validation and methodological rigor.
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Comparing CAR T-Cell Therapies for LBCL: Insights From CART-SIE Study
December 12th 2024Real-world study compares the efficacy and safety of axicabtagene ciloleucel (axi-cel) and tisagenlecleucel (tisa-cel), finding that axi-cel provides superior progression-free survival but with higher toxicity.
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Characteristics of Accountable Care Organizations’ Preferred Skilled Nursing Facility Networks
December 12th 2024Medicare accountable care organizations use preferred skilled nursing facility networks for postacute care management, although the size, structure, and resource allocation of networks vary widely.
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In Myeloid Neoplasms, Next-Generation Sequencing Can Be Inappropriate—and Money-Wasting
December 12th 2024A Yale School of Medicine team has created lists of criteria to help clinicians determine when next-generation sequencing (NGS) is appropriate for a patient with a myeloid neoplasm (MN), and when it is not.
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Elacestrant Shows Real-World Effectiveness in Metastatic Breast Cancers
December 11th 2024Patients with ER-positive/HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer who received elacestrant experienced a significant reduction in disease progression or death compared with standard-of-care endocrine therapy.
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ASH 2024 Showcases Real-World Data Demonstrating Efficacy of Ruxolitinib Across Multiple Conditions
December 10th 2024Two posters presented at the 2024 American Society of Hematology meeting bolster evidence supporting the long-term clinical benefits of ruxolitinib for polycythemia vera and chronic graft-vs-host disease.
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An Integrated Practice Unit Tool for the Military Health System
Researchers developed and tested an assessment tool to measure coordinated care for traumatic brain injury against the criteria of an integrated practice unit.
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6-Year Data Support Fixed-Duration Ven-Obi for Untreated CLL
December 10th 2024Long-term data support the safety and efficacy of venetoclax (Venclexta) and obinutuzumab (Gazyva) in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), though questions remain about which patients would benefit most from the regimen.
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