Mary Beth Nierengarten

Antiretroviral Drugs Help HIV-infected Patients to Maintain Work Productivity

05/24/2012

San Francisco—Employees with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) incur considerably higher healthcare costs than non-HIV employees, but absenteeism costs do not drive the cost difference. Among the antiretroviral (ARV) drugs used to treat HIV,...

San Francisco—Employees with...

05/24/2012

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Conference Insider

Anti-TNF Therapy and Solid Cancer Risk

02/22/2012

Mary Beth Nierengarten ;

Chicago—Patients treated with anti–tumor necrosis factor (TNF) therapy for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are not at increased risk of solid cancers compared with patients receiving nonbiologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs),...

Chicago—Patients treated with...

02/22/2012

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Feature Story

Reining in the High Cost of Drugs the German Way

11/22/2021

Mary Beth Nierengarten ;

Addressing high costs of medications and health care as a whole is more urgent than ever, prompting the question, should the United States be looking to other country’s models to improve our health care system?

Addressing high costs of...

11/22/2021

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Partial Medicaid Expansion and ACA Enhanced Matching

03/20/2019

Mary Beth Nierengarten ;

Utah is the latest state to ask approval for partial Medicaid expansion with enhanced federal funds, capping enrollment for nonelderly adults up to 100% of the federal poverty level and using per capita caps to constrain federal costs. If...

Utah is the latest state to ask...

03/20/2019

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Choosing Therapy for Type 2 Diabetes Based on Patient-Related Variables

06/10/2015

Mary Beth Nierengarten ;

With the expanding availability of multiple drugs to treat patients with type 2 diabetes, treatment can now be better tailored to the needs of each patient.

With the expanding availability...

06/10/2015

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Depression and Mortality Associated with Rheumatoid Arthritis

02/14/2013

Mary Beth Nierengarten ;

Washington, DC—Identifying and managing depression in people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), particularly men, is important based on the results of a study showing an increase in all-cause mortality associated with depression in RA...

Washington, DC—Identifying and...

02/14/2013

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AMCP Comments on Proposed CMS Changes to Part D Reporting Requirements

02/21/2012

Mary Beth Nierengarten ;

Future changes to Part D Reporting Requirements proposed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for contract year 2013 may pose new challenges to Part D plan sponsors if enacted. Responding to a request by CMS for comments on...

Future changes to Part D...

02/21/2012

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News Connection

Mycophenolate Mofetil Superior to Azathioprine for Lupus Nephritis

01/24/2012

Mary Beth Nierengarten ;

Results of a randomized, double-blind, double-dummy, phase 3 study [N Engl J Med. 2011;365(20):1886-1895] found that patients with active lupus who underwent 36 months of maintenance therapy with mycophenolate mofetil after successful...

Results of a randomized,...

01/24/2012

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Cover Story

Federal Oversight of Managed Care a Priority

03/01/2024

Mary Beth Nierengarten ;

In 2022, Medicare Advantage plans covered 50% of Medicare enrollees, costing the federal government $403 billion, while 81% of Medicaid enrollees received care through managed care for $254 billion. The Health and Human Services Office of...

In 2022, Medicare Advantage...

03/01/2024

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Policy Change: The Impact of 340B Cuts on Hospitals

01/11/2018

Mary Beth Nierengarten ;

A recent policy change significantly cut the amount hospitals are reimbursed for drugs paid for by Medicare.

A recent policy change...

01/11/2018

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