What is revenue cycle management in healthcare?

As economists offer up their best guesses for the US economy over the coming year, healthcare leaders know one thing for sure: no matter what happens, they need solid revenue cycle management (RCM) processes to remain financially sound and deliver high-quality care. Revenue cycle management connects the financial and clinical aspects of care by ensuring…

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Summit Lung Cancer Drug Falls Short on Key Survival Goal in Global Study, Putting FDA Approval in Doubt

Despite achieving statistically signficant improvement in progression-free survival in North American and European patients, Summit’s drug ivonescimab fell short of the other Phase 3 goal measuring overall survival. It’s the first Phase 3 readout for an emerging class of bispecific antibodies that treat cancer by blocking two targets, PD-1 and VEGF. The post Summit Lung…

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Cost impact of BTKi selection in Medicare patients with CLL

That is the title of my paper out today in the Journal of Comparative Effectiveness Research written with co-authors Adam Kittai, Dipen Patel, Nadine Zawadzki, Vikram Shetty, Yazan Barqawi, and Joanna Rhodes. The abstract is below. Aim: To estimate cost savings associated with covalent Bruton’s tyrosine kinase inhibitor (cBTKi) choice in patients with treatment-naive (TN) and…

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Challenges with Effective Price Transparency Analyses

Promoting price transparency in health care is a policy approach with bi-partisan support in Congress and the public at large. This analysis examines the vast troves of price transparency data that payers are required and finds unlikely prices, inconsistencies, and other oddities that pose major challenges for efforts to use it to promote competition and…

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