Medicare Improvement Project Linked to Health Law Takes Next Step

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 latest semaglutide (Ozempic; Novo Nordisk) approval is set to tackle a major need for patients with both type 2 diabetes (T2D) and chronic kidney disease (CKD), addressing their cardiovascular (CV) and kidney disease risks.

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.

Kirollos Hanna, PharmD, BCPS, BCOP, FACCC, director of pharmacy at Minnesota Oncology, discusses how the prospect of patient longevity, amidst advancing therapeutics, factors into oncology care.

The gene therapy delandistrogene moxeparvovec-rokl showed clinically meaningful benefits and disease stabilization at 2 years in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD).