Coverage of our peer-reviewed research and news reporting in the healthcare and mainstream press.
An article in Healthline centered around the question of "why don’t people with high deductibles make changes?" As the article explored the question, they cited a study published in The American Journal of Managed Care® (AJMC®). The study, “Impact of Consumer-Directed Health Plans on Low-Value Healthcare,” found that high-deductible health plans encouraged patients to cut healthcare spending indiscriminately instead of cutting low-value services specifically. The AJMC® published study was also highlighted in articles published in Health Exec’s, Becker’s Hospital Review’s, and Twin Cities Business’s articles on how unnecessary medical spending does not decrease with high-deductible plans. The authors of the study concluded that consumer-directed health plans in their current form may represent too blunt an instrument to specifically curtail low-value healthcare spending.
The National Pharmaceutical Council’s CER Daily Newsfeed on Wednesday mentioned an article published on AJMC.com. “Survey: Disconnect in Perceptions of Healthcare Experience Among Stakeholders,” found that there is a significant disconnect between patients, physicians, and employers in their perceived values and priorities in healthcare.
Health Data Management highlighted an AJMC® published study in its article on a health IT tool that aids care for patients with chronic disease: population health coordinators. The study, “Chronic Disease Outcomes From Primary Care Population Health Program Implementation,” found that the use of central population health coordinators led to greater improvement in short-term chronic disease outcome measures compared with patients in practices not assigned a central program health coordinator. The study was also mentioned by Medical Xpress in its article on centralized population health coordinators improving care for patients with chronic disease. The study authors concluded that a population health management program using a health IT tool improved process and outcome measures for patients with diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and hypertension.
Urticaria Diagnosis Challenged by Overlapping Pruritic Skin Conditions
April 23rd 2025Urticaria is complicated to diagnose by its symptomatic overlap with other skin conditions and the frequent misclassification in literature of distinct pathologies like vasculitic urticaria and bullous pemphigus.
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New Research Challenges Assumptions About Hospital-Physician Integration, Medicare Patient Mix
April 22nd 2025On this episode of Managed Care Cast, Brady Post, PhD, lead author of a study published in the April 2025 issue of The American Journal of Managed Care®, challenges the claim that hospital-employed physicians serve a more complex patient mix.
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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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ACOs’ Focus on Rooting Out Fraud Aligns With CMS Vision Under Oz
April 23rd 2025Accountable care organizations (ACOs) are increasingly playing the role of data sleuths as they identify and report trends of anomalous billing in hopes of salvaging their shared savings. This mission dovetails with that of CMS, which under the new administration plans to prioritize rooting out fraud, waste, and abuse.
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