In short, this new crop of pass-through, transparent vendors represents a new paradigm, a high-performance drug management alternative, that merits the close inspection of benefits managers and benefits advisors. Brian Klepper is a health care analyst and advisor focused on identifying, vetting, and...
A great deal has been written about healthcare cost trends for the US nationally and to some degree at the state level, but few analysts have focused their attention at the metropolitan area level. Since metropolitan areas tend to represent economically coherent geographic areas, decision-making ...
First, disparities and inequities in health status are persisting, partly because health programs have often “picked the low-hanging fruit” by focusing on narrowly defined, high-impact interventions such as vitamin A, immunizations, community case management of childhood illness, family planning, ...
The propensity score matching–based subgroup analysis involved propensity score matching between those having most of their primary care evaluation and management visits through the employer-sponsored comprehensive primary care program (the treatment group) vs not using employer-sponsored clinics (the ...
Relaxing patient satisfaction incentives may encourage physicians to prioritize the benefits of truthful therapeutic discourse, despite the risks of dissatisfying some patients. In a nationally representative sample, higher patient satisfaction was associated with increased inpatient utilization and with increased...
Many of the secondary or added benefits of population screening were not modeled. These include, most notably, the impact of cascade testing of at-risk relatives after the initial screening and returning BRCA1/2 results to males. The uptake of cascade testing in Australia has been estimated at...
Role of the Sponsors: The funders of this study had no role in the design and conduct of the study; collection, management, analysis, and interpretation of the data; preparation, review, and approval of the manuscript; or decision to submit the manuscript for publication. References 1. Niefel...
While these affect the retention or dissatisfaction of HRH, the country’s health sector financing and health workforce management schemes are also inseparable from international political and economic conditions. Reductions in government expenditures in health, privatization as health financing strategy, and...
The SSVF program is a partnership between the VA and nonprofit organizations nationwide providing case management, assistance accessing both VA and non-VA health benefits, and health care navigation services. One service offered through the SSVF program is temporary financial assistance (TFA),...
The increasing availability of real-world evidence (RWE) about safety and effectiveness of direct non-vitamin K oral anticoagulants (DOACs) for the management of atrial fibrillation (AF) offers the opportunity to better understand the clinical and economic implications of DOACs versus vitamin K antagon...