Cultural consciousness

The experimental Healthy Opportunity Pilots (HOP) program reduced Medicaid spending by addressing the social needs of enrollees in 33 counties in North Carolina, according to evaluation results published in JAMA.

Featured in this latest episode of Tuning In to the C-Suite podcast is Paul Fronstin, director of health benefits research at EBRI, who shed light on the evolving landscape of health benefits with editors of Managed Healthcare Executive.

The study included 145 patients who were prescribed Calquence, Imbruvica, or Venclexta to treat CLL or SLL and filled the medications through the IHSSP at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

In this latest episode of Tuning In to the C-Suite podcast, Briana Contreras, an editor with MHE had the pleasure of meeting Loren McCaghy, director of consulting, health and consumer engagement and product insight at Accenture, to discuss the organization's latest report on U.S. consumers switching healthcare providers and insurance payers.

In the aftermath of the fires in California and the hurricanes in the Southeast, health insurers relaxed some deadlines for members and helped affected employees.

Progressive pulmonary fibrosis is not a diagnosis so much as a disease behavior and a clinical phenotype, says Anna-Maria Hoffmann-Vold, M.D., Ph.D., of Oslo University Hospital and the expert featured on this MHE K-Cast.