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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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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.
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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.Posted in -
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.
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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.Date of event: -
The Science of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias (ADRD) for Social Scientists Program
This two-day program aims to provide social science researchers with biomedical and clinical foundations of ADRD.Date of event: