Bridgette Thom

Prior Authorization, Quantity Limits, and Step Therapy for Antiemetics This cross-sectional study evaluates whether antiemetic drugs for patients with cancer who have Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplace or Medicaid plans are subject to utilizatio...

#Priorauthorization #UtilizationManagement for costly 2nd-line 💊 is understandable but nearly one-half of plans have quantity limits for generic ondansetron, a cheap ($16 for 60 8mg tabs) & effective 1st-line drug

Make this make sense.
 
#fixPriorAuth
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Columbia Agrees to $200 Million Fine to Settle Fight With Trump

Surely this will be the payment that finally gets the extortionist to stop demanding money

Congrats to you both!!

It’s so weird how we’re all just working like this is still a normal country.

I thought this was Boston. But, it's Greenland.

White House says no one will be fired over the Signal scandal because no one involved was trying to cure cancer.

Democrats need to make this an ad and just play on repeat until 2026

KFF donut chart showing Medicaid covered about one-fifth of all spending on hospital care in 2023. The chart shows the distribution of spending on hospital care by payer, 2023: Medicaid is 19%, Medicare is 25%, Private health insurance is 37%, Other third-party payers is 10%, other health insurance programs is 7%, and out of pocket is 3%.

Medicaid accounted for 19% of all spending on hospital care in 2023, or $283 billion out of $1.5 trillion.

Absorbing cuts in Medicaid spending could be challenging for hospitals and may accelerate the pace of hospital closures, including in rural areas. on.kff.org/41HDoKR

NIH terminates ongoing grants for LGBTQ+ research Saying that "research programs based on gender identity are often unscientific," the agency wrote to scientists to cancel current grants.

NIH terminates ongoing grants for LGBTQ+ research

Striking how easily you can get millions of people to vote for a boot on their own face just by lying to them about the boot going on someone else's face.

Go Kiara! Such important work.

MEDICAID Basics
Over 50% of the spending for Medicaid goes to cover those with DISABILITIES and the AGED

38% of those on Medicaid are CHILDREN. /1

DOGE By The Numbers
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Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s idea of efficiency is stopping research on curing cancer.

I hate it here.

If only that breast cancer commercial ended with a notice about all the research funding cuts the current administration is pushing through and how it has immediate negative impacts on breast cancer research and screening.

You and me both, my friend. See you out there!

The NIH capping the indirect cost rate (IDC) for grants at 15% can best be described as a direct assault on Universities. It’s such a bureaucratic, innocuous sounding thing that actually means that research universities will be kneecapped. Thousands of employees across the US will lose their jobs.

Cover of The Lancet: "Health institutions may be hesitant to criticise the new administration publicly, but this timidity is a mistake. Trump's actions must be called out for the damage they are doing."

Oh, hell yeah

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Oh no!! It’s the worst! Get well soon.

Nothing to see here…

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I hear there are stories coming, but putting the brakes on our country’s world-leading medical research system feels like a five alarm fire and I don’t see a newspaper that even has it on the front page yet

My daughter did the same at that age. I was a little sad when she learned the real name for it.

I have so many questions for the PI

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Yes, yes, and yes