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Edmund Pezalla, MD, MPH, Analyzes the Future of Medicare Advantage Plans
Edmund J. Pezalla, MD, MPH, national medical director, Aetna Pharmacy Management, suggest that the healthcare industry will continue to move in the direction of providing patients incentives to make use of health risk assessment tools and screenings.
Edmund J. Pezalla, MD, MPH, national medical director, Aetna Pharmacy Management, suggest that the healthcare industry will continue to move in the direction of providing patients incentives to make use of health risk assessment tools and screenings. He says many of his organization’s programs have already been actively reducing or eliminating copays for preventive services as well as for certain sorts of critical medications.
“Benefit designs need to support delivery system reform by encouraging the right sorts of behaviors by both the consumers as well as the providers,” Dr Pezalla stated.
Empowering Teams Begins With Human Connection: Missy Hopson, PhD
April 16th 2025Missy Hopson, PhD, Ochsner Health, discussed in detail the challenges of strengthening the patient-centered workforce, the power of community reputation for encouraging health care careers, and the influence of empowered workforces on patient outcomes.
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Personalized Care Key as Tirzepatide Use Expands Rapidly
April 15th 2025Using commercial insurance claims data and the US launch of tirzepatide as their dividing point, John Ostrominski, MD, Harvard Medical School, and his team studied trends in the use of both glucose-lowering and weight-lowering medications, comparing outcomes between adults with and without type 2 diabetes.
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Orca-T showed lower rates of graft-vs-host disease or infection compared with allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) or acute leukemias in the Precision-T trial, Caspian Oliai, MD, MS, UCLA Bone Marrow Transplantation Stem Cell Processing Center, said.
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Navigating Sport-Related Neurospine Injuries, Surgery, and Managed Care
February 25th 2025On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we speak with Arthur L. Jenkins III, MD, FACS, CEO of Jenkins NeuroSpine, to explore the intersection of advanced surgical care for sport-related neurospine injuries and managed care systems.
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