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ACO Rollout Continues With 89 New Networks
The next round of accountable care organizations is out at last.
On Monday, the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced the selection of 89 new ACOs. That’s more than triple the number of ACOs selected in the previous round. As of July 1, the newly anointed networks became responsible for providing better, cheaper care to 1.2 million seniors on Medicare.
The Medicare ACO program was created under the 2010 federal health law, and there had been some worry among health care providers about what would happen to the program if the Affordable Care Act was ruled unconstitutional.
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Source: Kaiser Health News
Powles Highlights “Transformative” Benefit of EV Plus Pembro While Sharing Long-Term Data for EV-302
February 15th 2025The lead investigator for EV-302 said not long ago, survival of 12 to 14 months in this type of bladder cancer was considered an achievement; in this study, median overall survival was 34 months after treatment with enfortumab vedotin (EV) and pembrolizumab (pembro).
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Analysis Looks at Benefits, Toxicity of ADC Combinations in Advanced Bladder Cancer
February 15th 2025City of Hope's Salvador Jaime-Casas, MD, discusses a systematic review of recent trials examining objective response rate and adverse events of antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) combinations in advanced urothelial cancer.
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