Expert Calls for Improved Home Care Options for Those With Debilitating Diseases

Medicare Advantage enrollees, particularly Hispanic and Asian or Pacific Islander decedents, use less end-of-life home health care than those enrolled in traditional Medicare.

The annual wellness visit is beneficial for patients, providers, and payers with an emphasis on preventive care for early intervention.

The CELESTIAL-301 trial evaluating SynKIR-310, a novel chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy, has dosed its first patient with relapsed/refractory B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma (B-NHL).

On 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.

Although long-term nursing home stay or death decreased before the COVID-19 pandemic, the trend slowed during the pandemic across all racial and ethnic groups.

First-line maintenance (1LM) niraparib significantly extends progression-free survival (rwPFS) and time to next treatment (rwTTNT) in patients with epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC), with the greatest benefit observed in those considered homologous recombination-deficient (HRd) and those with BRCA-mutated (BRCAm) tumors.