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A New Approach to Cancer Bundled Payments in Medicare—The Enhancing Oncology Model
Schaeffer Nonresident Senior Fellow Bob Kocher discusses the elements of CMMI’s new Enhancing Oncology Model, explores its likelihood of success, and discusses its relative shortcomings in a new JAMA Health Forum Viewpoint.
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New Randomized Trial Shows Simple Letters Promote Better-Informed Opioid Prescribing
Letters successfully encouraged clinicians to check patients’ prescribing records, says study co-author Mireille Jacobson.
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2023 Clinical Trial Recruitment Lab (CTRL) Request for Pilot Project Proposals – Closed
CTRL is seeking proposals for pilot projects that test strategies and solutions designed to address barriers to recruitment for Alzheimer’s disease clinical trials.
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Telling Doctors Their Patients Fatally Overdosed Reduces Opioid Prescriptions Up to One Year Later
Those clinicians who received the letter wrote 7% fewer prescriptions than clinicians who hadn’t received the notification.
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Protected: Curing What Ails Healthcare Markets Conference Proceedings
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Social and Biomedical Scientists Come Together to Address the Burden of Alzheimer’s Disease
Social scientists are uniquely poised to evaluate the implications of Alzheimer’s costs, yet they often lack knowledge of the biomedical foundations of the disease.
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Shame Won’t Solve America’s Obesity Crisis: How Congress Can Help
If saving lives is the objective, then logic, clinical evidence and compassion dictate that Medicare should pay for preventing and treating obesity, starting now.
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High-Tech Map Promotes Access to Medicine and Pharmacy Services
A USC-developed interactive mapping tool shows the location of every pharmacy in the United States — and which neighborhoods are “pharmacy deserts.”
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New Dialysis Studies Inform Delivery of Care, Ways to Improve Patient Outcomes
Researchers analyzed the effects of clinic ownership and dialysis timing on patient outcomes.
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The Inflation Reduction Act Is Already Killing Potential Cures
The law’s price controls do away with incentives for research and development of life-saving drugs.
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