AMCP Nexus 2021: What’s Promising, What’s Problematic About Prescription Digital Therapeutics
October 21st 2021A panel discussion on prescription digital therapeutics identified them as a sweet spot for value-based agreements and collection of real-world evidence. But should they be paid for through the pharmacy benefit? And is there enough evidence available for payers and PBMs to make sound coverage and formulary decisions? For answers, stay tuned.
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AMCP Nexus 2021: How SCAN Turned Healthcare Disparity Talk Into Action
October 20th 2021The Southern California Medicare Advantage health plan zeroed in on medication adherence among its Black and Latinx members and took a multifaceted approach, which included cultural humility training and pairing staff and members had language and a cultural background in common.
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Loucks, manager of specialty clinical pharmacy programs and formulary at Kaiser Permanente Washington, discusses metrics that might give healthcare providers an incentive to address healthcare disparities and concrete steps that could be taken to turn the talk about addressing healthcare disparities into a reality.
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AMCP Nexus 2021: What the Future May Hold for Mavacamten
October 19th 2021If the new drug is approved, a Mayo Clinic expert on hypertrophic cardiomyopathy sees the new medication as probably being among the second-line choices for patients who don’t respond to beta blockers and calcium channel blockers.
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Manik Bhat Discusses "Managing Mission and Growth" and the Sacrifices Made by His Parents
October 14th 2021In this video segment, Bhat discusses his early career as community health worker in East Baltimore and starting and leading the growth of Healthify, a company that helps healthcare organizes address the social determinants of health. Healthify has recently been acquired by Wellsky and Bhat's title is vice president of SDOH operations and sales. Bhat also discusses the sacrifices his parents made for him and his brother and their work ethic.
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Matthew Bennett of Evernorth Care Delivery Shares Greatest Influences in Work, Life are His Parents
October 13th 2021Matthew Bennett is senior vice president of Evernorth Care Delivery, a health services company and subsidiary of Cigna. Bennett is one of the emerging health leaders featured in the October 2021 issue of Managed Healthcare Executive. In this video he talks about the career achievement that has given him the greatest satisfaction, dissects his recent promotion and who has had the greatest influence on his life.
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Ellen Beckjord, Ph.D., M.P.H., vice president of population health and clinical transformation at UPMC Health Plan in Pittsburgh, is one of the emerging health leaders featured in the October 2021 issue of Managed Healthcare Executive. In this video she talks about the career achievement that has given her the greatest satisfaction and the person who has had the greatest influence on her life.
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Disease-associated Genetic Variants Common Among Those With Early-onset Afib, Study Finds
October 6th 20211 in 10 patients with early-onset atrial fibrillation have gene variants associated with a cardiac disease, most commonly some form of cardiomyopathy, according to research conducted by Vanderbilt researchers. Results would justify routinizing genetic testing of young afib patients, the researchers said.
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This week, MHE editors Briana Contreras and Peter Wehrwein chat with MHE Editorial Advisory Board Member Cindy Hundorfean for the latest episode of the Meet the Board podcast series. Hundorfean, who is CEO of Allegheny Health Network, told MHE a few things about her time with the Cleveland Clinic, where Allegheny Health Network stands in the competitive Pittsburgh healthcare market and what the organization is doing to improve the health of the population.
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