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White Bagging Policies Endanger the Lives of Cancer Patients

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Insurers and PBMs are increasingly implementing white-bagging policies, which require oncology practices to obtain physician-administered infusions and other medications from designated specialty pharmacies often owned by or affiliated with insurers and their PBMs.

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Side Effects are Limiting GLP-1 Drug Efficacy: How Can Personalization Offer a Solution?

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By integrating digitization and machine learning, there is an opportunity to deliver personalized care to all patients and scale precision dosing with minimal physician involvement, maximizing the effectiveness and accessibility of these drugs. appeared first on MedCity News.

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Emerging Investigators Are Pivotal for Meeting Current, Future Drug Development Needs

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We must engage, train and support more physicians as investigators to enable the opportunity for their patients to have access to clinical trials. As an industry, we should be adding anywhere from 10% to 20% new investigators every year to meet the patient access needs for clinical trials.

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Access and Diversity in Clinical Trials Requires Supporting the Investigators

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When we bring physicians from underserved communities into research through a reimagined model, we can impact better health outcomes rooted in quality data that allows us to thrive from more diversity and better representation while providing patients with greater access to new care options.

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Putting Patients First: Seeking To Solve Long-standing Challenges With Clinical Research Participation and Access

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Clinical research as a care option is a means of connecting patients with clinical research as part of their ongoing health care, located where they receive that care, and offered by their trusted provider.

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Shifting Focus from Medication Costs to Medication Value

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To realize true, sustainable savings in total cost of care, the healthcare system needs to reconsider the support — or lack of support — it provides throughout patients’ medication experiences and the snowball effect that creates on a lifetime of healthcare costs.

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First Do No Harm: Support Legislative Efforts to Combat the Adverse Drug Event Epidemic 

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The Hippocratic oath can’t stop with direct patient care; the healthcare industry and its key stakeholders must address persistent public health problems systematically. We have the tools to reduce medication harm by half or more; it is long past time to make this a public health priority.

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