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CMS Issues Sweeping End-Of Year Rule on Medicare Advantage and Medicare Part D

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CMS is proposing setting a 20% coinsurance/equivalent copayment limit for behavioral health services, eliminating cost-sharing for opioid treatment program services, and capping inpatient psychiatric service cost sharing to 100% of Medicare Fee-For-Services levels.

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Reinventing Transplant Care: From Inpatient Tradition to Outpatient Innovation

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Pharmacy Times : How does the team ensure smooth transitions from inpatient to outpatient transplant care, particularly regarding medication management? So there were a lot of things. It's not just about, “Oh, let’s give them their nausea medicine,” but let’s make sure we get it to them correctly and in a timely fashion.

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Impact of Patient Access to Care on Rates of Febrile Neutropenia Post Inpatient Administration of a Colony-Stimulating Factor

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Literature suggests a 3% difference in the rate of FN between CSF agents filgrastim (Neupogen; Amgen)/filgrastim biosimilars and pegfilgrastim (Neulasta; Amgen)/pegfilgrastim biosimilars. A retrospective chart review was performed. Forty-four of 88 charts met the inclusion criteria and were evaluated using the Fisher exact test.

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UK scientists trial Humira biosimilar for COVID-19 in care homes

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Adalimumab – sold by AbbVie as Humira as well as in biosimilar form by companies including Novartis’ Sandoz unit, Amgen and Biogen/Samsung joint venture Bioepis – will be used in the phase 2 AVID-CC study to see if it can prevent progression to respiratory failure in people with coronavirus infections.

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OTC Assessments With Recommendations and Counseling Should Be a Billable Encounter

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Unicorns Don’t Exist: Rethinking the Generalist Model in Oncology Pharmacy

Pharmacy Times

For effective patient care, we need smart people to design workflows for operationalizing 505(b)(2) drugs, integrating the next biosimilar we have to stock, and managing the compounding of a new hazardous drug. We need people to coordinate and track prior authorizations, write persuasive appeal letters, and keep patients updated.

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Evaluation of a Pharmacy-Delivered Oncofertility Intervention

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