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Julia is an associate editor for The American Journal of Managed Care® (AJMC®) and joined AJMC® in 2022. She produces written and video content covering multiple disease states, and assists in the screening process for manuscripts submitted to AJMC®.

She has a BA in English language and literature from Rutgers University. You can connect with Julia on 

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Glaucoma is a leading cause of blindness in the US, making awareness of the condition vital to obtaining the best outcomes.

FAQs About Glaucoma as Awareness Month Concludes

. Her work focuses on disparities and systemic inequities in care and access to the health system, as well as the impacts of health policy on various racial, gendered, and socioeconomic communities. She seeks perspectives from experts in internal medicine, health equity, community outreach, clinical research, mental health, and legislative policy.

, she delved into rare disease coverage at HCPLive

, a sister publication, where she fostered connections that extended beyond the research community into that of health advocacy, paving the way to her current role. Her work has been featured in 

NewsBreak, CHEST Today, Contemporary Pediatrics, Contemporary OB/GYN, Dermatology Times, Drug Topics, Managed Healthcare Executive, RamaOnHealthcare, and CGTLive.

Prior authorization remains a major health care barrier, causing delays and frustrations for insured adults seeking necessary treatments.

Prior Authorization Ranked Top Barrier to Health Care Access After Cost

Kempton Presley is Chief Executive Officer of 

, a leading health care technology company focused on medication adherence. With more than 2 decades of experience in the health care payer space, Presley is an accomplished executive focused on driving growth for technology-enabled service organizations through analytics, strategy, and client success.

Addressing poor medication adherence should be a top priority in health plans to ensure short- and long-term benefits in health outcomes and financial stability.

Contributor: From Outreach to Outcomes—4 Steps to Stronger Medication Adherence

, a national, independent nonprofit organization whose mission is to supply objective, unbiased information for all stakeholders to improve health care quality, access, and affordability. FAIR Health possesses the nation’s largest collection of commercial health care claims data, which grows at a rate of about four billion claim records a year. Certified by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services as a national Qualified Entity, FAIR Health also receives data representing the experience of all individuals enrolled in traditional Medicare Parts A, B, and D. Ray is a lawyer with extensive experience in public policy, health data, and executive leadership. From 2016 through 2022, Ray was the Executive Director of the Massachusetts Center for Health Information and Analysis (CHIA), an independent regulatory agency with authority to collect data and perform analyses of the Massachusetts health care system to support policymaking, public health, and health care improvement efforts. Prior to CHIA, Ray was a commissioner and the acting executive director of the Massachusetts Group Insurance Commission, the largest self-insured purchaser in the New England commercial health care market. Before that, Ray spent seven years as the Executive Director of the Massachusetts Health Data Consortium, a multi-stakeholder nonprofit working on state and federal health care IT, health information exchange, and data interoperability projects with all the major health care stakeholders in Massachusetts. Ray has been an instructor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where he taught the class “Health Data and Public Policy” and ran an executive education program on health equity, artificial intelligence, and data ethics. Ray has also worked as a lawyer in the public and private sectors, as a consultant, and as the executive director of a Massachusetts quasi-public authority that provided internet and distance learning services to K-12 schools, state agencies, and municipalities.

Patients on commercial insurance were more likely to have at least 1 chronic condition, which can affect health care spending overall.

Contributor: The Majority (57.5%) of Commercially Insured Patients Had 1 or More Chronic Conditions in 2024

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