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GLP-1s, artificial intelligence and the Inflation Reduction Act are among the topics featured in the education sessions of the specialty pharmacy meeting in Las Vegas. The keynote speaker is William McRaven, a retired four-star admiral and former chancellor of the University of Texas system.

Lack of health insurance and not having a healthcare provider are two of the biggest factors that contribute to skipping a mammogram.

These programs aim to enhance the recruitment, training and retention of direct care workers who deliver vital home and community-based services to older adults and individuals with disabilities.

Gregory P. Brown, J.D., partner at Hill Ward Henderson, a law firm based in Tampa, talked about potential upcoming complications for healthcare employers and employees.

These awards cover research on a variety of crucial health areas including asthma, heart failure, migraine prevention and more.

Genes may help identify which cases of ductal carcinoma in situ are most likely to become invasive breast cancer.

UnitedHealth has found 22 screenshots, allegedly from Change Healthcare files, that were posted for about a week on the dark web. Some of these contained personal health information. The extent of data release is not yet known.

It is somewhat mind-boggling in 2024 that more than one-third of pharma organizations still rely on manual entry of data into Excel spreadsheets to track duplicate discounts that can cost millions of dollars a year in lost revenue

Five facts based off of findings on women's health.

Results published in the journal Ophthalmology find no risk reduction from daily one-gram capsules of omega-3 fatty acids.

Leaders at UC Davis Health created an emerging therapies committee to review and prepare for the wave of treatments that cost millions of dollars.

Joseph Zabinski, PhD, MEM, vice president, head of commercial strategy and AI, OM1, chatted with MHE editors on the significance of patient acceptance in AI adoption in healthcare, overall and in the dermatology space, stressing trust and transparency.

After the onboarding of cell and gene therapy bogged using normal pharmacy and therapeutics (P&T) committee procedures, UC Davis Health set up an emerging therapeutics committee to streamline and speed up the process of delivery expensive cell and gene therapies.

This decision may lead to faster approval of new treatments for multiple myeloma.

The executive order was created to acknowledge the challenges faced by families in accessing affordable, high-quality care, mainly due to the gap between costs and what families can afford.

Andel, principal of CommonHealth Solutions LLC, weighed in on potential strategies and challenges for Part D plans in navigating medication formulary limitations during catastrophic coverage phases in this second part of a two-part video series.

One result of the Inflation Reduction Act shifting a greater proportion the cost of drugs during the catastrophic phase of coverage to the Part D plans result may be narrower formularies.

Adam Colborn outlined four trends in state-level action on pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) and drugs in an interview prior to this presentation at the annual meeting of Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) today.

Psychiatrists and psychologists also had lower in-network reimbursement rates.

A group of researchers recently aimed to investigate the prognosis of patients with NSCLC that lacked a spouse, family members, or friends to support them during cancer treatment.

Panelists discussed reaching beyond large patient advocacy groups for input and how clinical trial endpoints may paint an incomplete picture of a drug's true value to patients.

Ross Margulies, J.D., M.P.H., a partner at the Foley Hoag law firm, discusses whether proposed transparency rules in the pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) legislation that Congress is considering might apply to the PBM-affiliated group purchasing organizations.

Ross Margulies, J.D., M.P.H., a partner at the Foley Hoag law firm, discusses proposals to “delink” what pharmacy benefit managers are paid from the price of drugs.

The pipeline for NASH treatments is robust, with six therapies in phase 3 development. Speakers at the annual AMCP meeting discuss Rezdiffra, the first drug approved specifically for NASH, and how to think about coverage issues.

According to the co-author of a poster presented at the annual AMCP meeting hosted in New Orleans this week, the interest in the study where the data was found stemmed from the prevalence of PPD in adults, especially women after giving birth.

Factors preventing biosimilar access include pharmacy benefit manager contracts and pharmacies not communicating with providers, a survey finds.

Ross Margulies, J.D., M.P.H., a partner at the Foley Hoag law firm, says there is broad agreement on transparency provisions and a ban on spread pricing in Medicaid.

The Access to Prescription Digital Therapeutics Act remains a top priority for the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP), according to Jennifer L. Mathieu, AMCP senior vice president of professional and government affairs.

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