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.
|Podcasts|June 3, 2020
Kathi Mooney of Huntsman Cancer Institute Speaks on Hospital-at-Home Programs
Author(s)Peter Wehrwein, Briana Contreras
Kathi Mooney, Ph.D., RN, FAAN, interim senior director of population sciences at the Huntsman Cancer Institute in Salt Lake City, discusses hospital-at-home programs and how they are common in countries with single-payer systems and include patients with conditions ranging from cellulitis to heart failure. The benefits include the familiarity of home surroundings, avoidance of hospital-acquired infection, and less de-conditioning from being in a hospital bed.
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