Bryant Hoyal, VP of Client Services, Strategic Accounts at Relatient suggests filling appointment schedules with patients based on their specific needs through best practices is an efficient way to drive revenue, as well as balance workflows for staff. Outside of scheduling tools, Hoyal stressed the importance of being a data-driven organization to understand and control the workflow of your practice.
Melody Chang, R.Ph., says payers cover bispecific and CAR-T drugs but not the monitoring that lets community practices deliver them safely at lower cost.
Continuous glucose monitoring cut mean A1C from 8.8% to 7.2% over 26 weeks in adults with type 2 diabetes not on insulin, 0.9 points more than routine care in the CONNECT trial.
American Oncology Network’s Melody Chang, R.Ph., says 18% of its first 70 outpatient bispecific patients had CRS, all low grade with no hospitalizations.
Garza, an expert on hidradenitis suppurativa at Johns Hopkins, says increasing incidence of the disease on the Japanese island of Okinawa offer some "tantalizing clues" about reasons for the rising incidence.