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Ed Cohen Describes the Major Medication-Related Quality Gaps in Transitions of Care Programs
Ed Cohen, PharmD, FAPhA, senior manager, product development, corporate innovations at Walgreens, explains that patient education and medication adherence are 2 major gaps in transitions of care.
Ed Cohen, PharmD, FAPhA, senior manager, product development, corporate innovations at Walgreens, explains that patient education and medication adherence are 2 major gaps in transitions of care. He says that the focus of Walgreens is to ensure that patients have an understanding of the medications they are prescribed, and how to take them. The company also confirms that patients are refilling their medications as prescribed.
Dr Ed Cohen adds that community and retail pharmacies traditionally provide bedside delivery of medications in transitions of care programs. Without this practice, some hospital goals cannot be met.
“Even our company, when we 1st entered into a collaboration with a health system to partner in transitions of care, our role was centered around bedside delivery of medication,” he says. “That particular hospital found that they were not able to attain their goals [of] reducing preventable readmissions around medication without the component of bedside delivery.”
Balancing Cost and Quality in Oncology: A Value-Based Care Perspective
January 30th 2025Travis Brewer, vice president of payer and public health strategy/relations at Texas Oncology, shared that value-based oncology care can achieve both cost efficiency and high-quality outcomes through integrated multidisciplinary teams, flexible payment models, and targeted treatment approaches.
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Unlocking Access: Exploring Mental Health Care Among Medicaid Managed Care Enrollees
January 23rd 2025On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we speak with the author of a study published in the January 2025 issue of The American Journal of Managed Care® to examine the association between quantitative network adequacy standards and mental health care access among adult Medicaid enrollees.
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An Argument for Outpatient Bispecific Antibody Delivery: Dr Kirollos Hanna
January 25th 2025Bispecific antibodies have altered the multiple myeloma (MM) treatment landscape, but some practices still lack enough familiarity with these therapeutics to deliver them in outpatient settings.
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