More on Cost-effectiveness (From Health Management, Dec. 2007)

The speed of adoption of new practices in medicine is extremely slow. We need systems to test new protocols, make sure they’re safe and effective, and get them out into the world more rapidly.

This week on Tuning Into The C-Suite Briana Contreras spoke with Dr. Scott Hayworth, president and CEO of New York-based CareMount Medical. In this interview, the two discussed the importance of patients staying in contact with their doctors for the sake of reducing public health risks and to discuss ongoing care options with them.

The National Health Service provides some lessons — both good and bad — around models of coverage expansion.

MHE's Briana Contreras spoke with CEO of Scripta, Eric Levin. The two discussed the current state of the pharmacy benefit market and how the Scripta organization has been assisting its clients and their prescriptions prior to the COVID-19 pandemic and during.

States can use federal money that would otherwise support ACA marketplace premium tax credits to set up programs that offer health insurance to low-income people whose incomes are too high to make them eligible for Medicaid.