Interviews

Peter M ten Klooster, PhD, assistant professor at the University of Twente in Enschede in the Netherlands, discusses why achieving early remission for patients with rheumatoid arthritis is important to payers and how it can result in...

Mary Jane Konstantin of AxisPoint Health (AGS), explains why member engagement is important for value-based care and details how the use of big data helps improve patient outcomes while lowering the cost of care.

Kiersten Combs, vice president of US Cardiovascular & Metabolic Disease, and Jim McDermott, vice president of US Medical Affairs and Metabolism, both at AstraZeneca, highlight how the use of Farxiga and other SGLT2 inhibitors impact payers...

Lynn Barr, CEO and founder of Caravan Health, a mission-driven company bringing population health to life by building accountable care organizations, discusses the Medicare Shared Savings “Pathways to Success Program” and explores the...

Beau Norgeot, MS, of Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute at the University of California, explains how artificial intelligence (AI) impacts the cost of care for patients with complex diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis, and...

Parvaneh Heidari, PhD student at Monash University, explains why it is recommended that health policy makers globally identify an appropriate out-of-pocket amount to ensure costs do not affect medication adherence among patients with...

Jean Liew, MD, senior fellow in the Division of Rheumatology at the University of Washington, discusses the health care burden patients with both cardiovascular disease and psoriatic arthritis experience and explains why the development of...

In order to better understand why inadequate risk adjustment could counterproductively reduce payments to groups, First Report Managed Care spoke with Christina A Nguyen, AB, and co-author Mary Beth Landrum, PhD, both from Harvard Medical...

Kaleb Michaud, PhD, and Elizabeth Mollard, PhD, explain why the use of mobile applications among patients with rheumatoid arthritis have the potential to reduce flares, increase adherence to medications, and lengthen the interval between...

Nirav N Shah, MD, attending anesthesiologist and interventional pain management specialist at Northshore University Health System, explains how neuromodulation can help lessen pain caused by rheumatologic conditions as well as reduce opioid...