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Medicare Part B Spending on Macular Degeneration Treatments Associated With Manufacturer Payments to Ophthalmologists

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Sean R. Dickson, JD, MPH1,2; Katelyn E. James, BA1 September 8, 2023   Key Points Question  Do ophthalmologists who accept payments from manufacturers of age-related macular degeneration (ARMD) drugs prescribe higher-cost therapies? Findings  In this cross-sectional study of 2013 to 2019 Medicare Part B data including 21 584 ophthalmologists, ophthalmologists who accepted manufacturer payments from ARMD drug manufacturers were significantly less likely to… Read more »

New York committed to a Master Plan for Aging

New York Just Committed to a Master Plan for Aging

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By Nora Obrien-Suric and Bob Blancato July 12, 2023 ASA is partnering with West Health, The SCAN Foundation and The John A. Hartford Foundation on a series of posts, virtual and On Aging programming to foster Multisector Plans for Aging across the country. This is the second in the blog post series. Note that Multisector… Read more »

Blog post supporting local multisector plans for aging in rural communities

Supporting Local Multisector Plans for Aging in Rural Communities

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By Pauline Delange Martinez June 13, 2023 ASA is partnering with West Health, The SCAN Foundation and The John A. Hartford Foundation on a series of posts, virtual and On Aging programming to foster Multisector Plans for Aging across the country. This is the second in the blog post series. Note that Multisector Plan for… Read more »

Join the Movement: Every State Should Have a Multisector Plan for Aging

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By Amy Herr, Erin Westphal and Scott Bane January 11, 2023 ASA is partnering with West Health, The SCAN Foundation and The John A. Hartford Foundation on a series of posts, virtual and On Aging programming to foster Multisector Plans for Aging across the country. This is the first in the blog post series. To… Read more »

Perceptions and Uses of Telehealth in the Care of Older Adults

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     By Liane Wardlow, PhD, Carly Roberts, MPH, and Laurie Archbald-Pannone, MD, MPH, on behalf of The Collaborative for Telehealth and Aging December 9, 2022 Clinicians identify challenges in using tele-health with older adults, yet they continue to use it at high rates. We conducted a nation-wide survey of US clinicians to assess the… Read more »

Telehealth with older adults: Getting it right

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      By Kevin Biese MD, Steven M. Handler MD, Liane Wardlow PhD, Zia Agha MD November 1, 2022 Telehealth has tremendous potential to improve healthcare access, efficiency, and safety; the COVID pandemic has only made this more evident. The high number of excess deaths1 and decreased utilization of medical care early in the pandemic,2 especially… Read more »

How states can act to limit drug price increases, saving employers and workers billions

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    By Sean Dickson October 20, 2022 The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 mandates that Medicare-covered drug sales will be protected from price increases that exceed inflation, but the mechanics of this “inflation penalty” have generated some confusion. A top Medicare official recently noted that the per-pill value of the Medicare inflation penalty will be calculated based on average… Read more »

How Venture Philanthropy Can Disrupt Health Care: Lessons from Civica Rx

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By Shelley Lyford October 12, 2022 Health care costs in the United States are simply untenable, threatening the financial health and personal well-being of Americans. Domestic spending on health care quadrupled from 1980 to 2018 and now accounts for 17% of GDP and 24% of government spending. Yet health outcomes in the U.S. lag well… Read more »