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The Community Oncology Alliance (COA) is aligned with keeping patient care in the hands of the community pharmacies and practices, and it is important that these organizations stick together to achieve the best quality of care, says Judith Alberto, MHA, RPh, BCOP, director of clinical initiatives, COA.

In the pharmaceutical landscape, the lack of effective, curative therapies, particularly in critical areas such as cancer treatment,1 underscores the urgent need for innovative solutions.

Part of President Joe Biden’s election year pitch to Latino voters includes a promise to lower health care costs.

The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the normal course of cancer screening and detection in the US. A nationwide analysis of the extent of this disruption using cancer registry data has not been conducted.

April 17, 2024 - States have implemented their own regulations to address pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) operations, some of which may prove better routes than national legislation, according to a report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO).

As two former secretaries of Health and Human Services, we are all too familiar with the struggle of finding narrow openings for bipartisanship.

ACOs are groups of providers that assume responsibility — and occasionally, financial risk — to care for a group of patients.

In the article, “Attacks on Pharmacy Benefits Managers Won’t Reduce Drug Prices,” Ike Brannon pleads with the reader not to see pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) as “the bogeymen they have been made out to be,” and he attempts to recast them as champions of healthcare industry savings.

On April 10, 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) posted the Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) proposed update for fiscal year (FY) 2025, along with proposed policy and regulation changes.

UnitedHealth Group said on Tuesday it expects the hack of its Change Healthcare unit to cost the company up to $1.6 billion this year but maintained its 2024 earnings forecast, suggesting a less severe impact of the cyberattack than many on Wall Street had feared.