Employers seek to soften health cost blow

People with advanced Parkinson’s disease who also have a sleep disorder cost about $50,000 a year to treat, $13,000 more than similar patients without one, according to an AbbVie-funded claims analysis.

Geisinger Health Plan President Jeremy Gaskill says the possibility that a growing number of patients won't have health insurance could put tremendous financial pressure on the plan's providers.

γδ T cells infiltrate small cell lung cancer tumors and can kill them without the MHC-I machinery these tumors typically switch off, and patients with more of them trended toward longer survival on anti-PD-L1 immunotherapy.

Upstream payment accuracy should reduce avoidable noise before it reaches those downstream functions.

The results come several months after the FDA approved Lisraya for dermatomyositis.

Psychedelic therapies are nearing FDA decisions, but people with HIV, many covered by Medicaid, have been left out of nearly all trials, commentary authors argue.

Christopher Stanley, M.D., MBA, says Henry Ford Health now projects its 2027 employee healthcare insurance premiums to increase half as much as what had been expected, partly because of Populance’s to bring about cost-effective care.

Rybrevant Faspro won accelerated approval for recurrent or metastatic HNSCC after a trial showed a 42% response rate in previously treated patients.