State of the Industry 2013: Payer Profitability

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.

A screening program in eight countries found early-stage type 1 diabetes in about 1 in 350 children with no family history of the disease.

Healthcare leaders should be preparing now for important changes in prior authorization and other areas of healthcare.

UC Davis Health’s Tiffany Phung, Pharm.D., and Tim Cutler, Pharm.D., say staff-driven ideas protect research independence in industry partnerships.

UC Davis Health’s Tiffany Phung, Pharm.D., and Tim Cutler, Pharm.D., say research justifies services and opens doors to limited distribution drugs.

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.