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• Revising Payment to Medicare Advantage Plans to Reflect the Rapid Growth in Enrollment

  Medicare Advantage enrollment is projected to represent the majority of Medicare beneficiaries enrolled in both Part A and Part B by 2023. This event will discuss this trend and the financial implications.

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  Webinars > Medicare and Medicaid
• Women and Adolescent Girls Face Barriers Accessing Contraceptives – Even in Blue States Like California

  States dedicated to ensuring women receive the care they need should fix existing gaps in contraceptive access.

  By Dima M. Qato, PharmD, MPH, PhD

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  Evidence Base > Hospitals and Health Systems
• It’s Time to Let Pharmacists Prescribe COVID-Fighting Pills Like Paxlovid

  To reduce hospitalization and death, pharmacists should have the same prescribing abilities as doctors for COVID anti-viral drugs Paxlovid and Lagevrio, USC School of Pharmacy
  Dean Vassilios Papadopoulos writes in a new MarketWatch op-ed.

  By Vassilios Papadopoulos, DPharm, PhD, DSc (hon)

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  Perspective > Patient and Physician Behavior
• The Unequal Causes and Costs of Dementia

  Dementia and its costs aren’t equally borne by all populations. Studies indicate that, compared to older non-Hispanic white adults, older Black adults are about twice as likely to have dementia, and older Hispanic adults about one and one-half times as likely.

  By Johanna Thunell, PhD and Julie Zissimopoulos, PhD

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  Evidence Base > Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia