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PAPER OF THE WEEK: In 1998, Research Highlighted Importance of Comorbidities in HIV Care
These findings highlighted that adherence to drugs is not the sole issue to address in patients with comorbidities also serving as vital factors in designing managed care plans.
Welcome to Paper of the Week, which looks back at important papers over the past 25 years of The American Journal of Managed Care® and why they matter today.
Amid innovations within HIV treatment and care, this week’s 1998 paper spotlighted how the prevalence of comorbidities such as anemia and syphilis impacted delivery of care for out-of-treatment drug users.
Analyzing data derived from a managed care model, researcher Isaac D. Montoya, PhD, found that a high rate of male and female drug users with HIV had syphilis and anemia. These findings highlighted that adherence to drugs is not the sole issue to address in patients with comorbidities also serving as vital factors in designing managed care plans.
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Managed Care Reflections: A Q&A With A. Mark Fendrick, MD, and Michael E. Chernew, PhD
December 2nd 2025To mark the 30th anniversary of The American Journal of Managed Care (AJMC), each issue in 2025 includes a special feature: reflections from a thought leader on what has changed—and what has not—over the past 3 decades and what’s next for managed care. The December issue features a conversation with AJMC Co–Editors in Chief A. Mark Fendrick, MD, director of the Center for Value-Based Insurance Design and a professor at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor; and Michael E. Chernew, PhD, the Leonard D. Schaeffer Professor of Health Care Policy and the director of the Healthcare Markets and Regulation Lab at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts.
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