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Ohio Becomes Medicaid's First Value-Based Purchaser
Ohio is transforming its Medicaid program by tying payments to quality, value-based outcomes, as the first in the nation to take such a step, the state announced Monday.
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The Office of Ohio Health Plans (Ohio Medicaid) is working with Catalyst for Payment Reform, a large private organization that includes General Electric and Walmart as members, to develop new language for 2013 contracts that ties managed care payment to quality outcomes, reported the Dayton Daily News
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"Today, we pay the same for care, whether it's good or bad, free of mistakes or full of mistakes," Catalyst for Payment Reform Executive Director Suzanne Delbanco told the . "We want to have a payment system that's more connected to the care that people receive."
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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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FDA Greenlights Dupilumab for Chronic Spontaneous Urticaria, Marking First Approval in a Decade
April 18th 2025Marking the first approval in over a decade for this challenging condition, the FDA has approved dupilumab (Dupixent) to treat chronic spontaneous urticaria in patients 12 years and older whose hives and itching remain uncontrolled by antihistamines.
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