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Dr Craig Thiele Discusses Collaborating to Bring Value to Consumers
Health plans, providers, and consumers have to collaborate in order to bring value, Craig Thiele, MD, chief medical officer at CareSource, said at the America's Health Insurance Plans' National Conferences on Medicare and Medicaid, and Dual Eligibles Summit.
Health plans, providers, and consumers have to collaborate in order to bring value, Craig Thiele, MD, chief medical officer at CareSource, said at the America’s Health Insurance Plans’ National Conferences on Medicare and Medicaid, and Dual Eligibles Summit.
Getting relevant and timely data to providers that they can use when caring for patients is key, he added.
“One of the things we started doing was sharing emergency room data with providers who are in value-based models and they’re using that information to identify high-risk members,” Dr Thiele said.
Expanding Access to Gene Therapies: Addressing Patient Burden, High Costs
December 3rd 2024Gene therapies can be life-changing for people, but the high cost plus the burden of treatment remain barriers to access and utilization, explained Kevin Niehoff, PharmD, BCMAS, of IPD Analytics.
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Finding Health Care Best Practices From Successes Around the World
December 2nd 2024The US can learn from what other countries are doing well to implement the best programs to improve patient access to care, especially for those who have the worst outcomes, explained Nadine J. Barrett, PhD, MA, MS, FACCC, of Wake Forest University and the Association of Cancer Care Centers.
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Expert Insights on How Utilization Management Drives Physician Burnout
November 26th 2024On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we speak with the author of a study published in the November 2024 issue of The American Journal of Managed Care® to explore the link between utilization management and physician burnout.
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sGFAP May Predict Progression Independent of Relapse in BCDT-Treated MS
November 29th 2024The findings show that increases in serum glial fibrillary acidic protein throughout B-cell depletion therapy are associated with disability worsening despite not relapsing—known as progression independent of relapse activity.
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Advent of Ponatinib for Ph+ ALL Expected to Influence New Guidelines
November 29th 2024With ponatinib (Iclusig) receiving an accelerated approval from the FDA earlier this year for the treatment of Philadelphia chromosome-positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia (Ph+ ALL), updated guidelines could be on the horizon.
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