@MariaPisu1

Rhythm, RUTH, Wii Can, economic burden of cancer...follow my cool projects for cancer survivors with Michelle Martin @ UAB Division of Preventive Medicine.

Joined June 2012
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Lay Health Worker–Led Intervention May Improve Care for Low-Income and Minority Patients With Cancer - The ASCO Post ascopost.com/news/june-2021/…

Lay Health Worker–Led Intervention May Improve Care for Low-Income and Minority Patients With Cancer

In a study reported in JCO Oncology Practice, Manali I. Patel, MD, MPH, and colleagues found that a lay health worker­–led intervention was associated with improved documentation of goals of care,...

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Gabrielle@GRocqueMD6 Aug 2021
Share your experience during the #COVID19 pandemic to inform #breastcancer #ClinicalTrials! @TheTBCRC is looking for patients with early stage or #MetastaticBC to take an anonymous online survey. Survey link is: mrprcbcw.hosts.jhmi.edu/redc…. Please share and spread the word. #BCSM
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"On average, older adults on Medicare spent $5,801 out-of-pocket for health care in 2017 — 36% of the average annual Social Security benefit of $16,104"
Judith Graham@judith_graham6 Jul 2021
Imagine: you can spend $56 billion on improving care for older adults. How would you spend it? A relevant question in light of a new Alzheimer's drug that could cost that much annually -- and more. My latest. khn.org/news/article/paying-…

Paying Billions for Controversial Alzheimer’s Drug? How About Funding This Instead? - KFF Health...

Aduhelm, approved by the Food and Drug Administration last month despite questions about its efficacy, could be prescribed to at least 1 million patients a year, for a price tag of about $56 billion....

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Retweet if you want @SpeakerPelosi and @senatemajldr to impeach and remove Donald Trump so he cannot run in 2024
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If you don't quite understand what horror the Trump administration inflicted today on transgender and non-binary people seeking medical care and why we're scared, let me tell you a quick story. [TW: transphobia, trans death] (thread)
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NEW! Revised definitions of #CancerSurvivor and #CancerSurvivorshipResearch announced by @theNCI. Learn more on the redesigned NCI Office of Cancer Survivorship’s website! cancercontrol.cancer.gov/ocs… #cancersurvivorship
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Time to pay attention to this Kaiser Family Foundation/LA Times Survey Of Adults With Employer-Sponsored Insurance - Section 2: Affordability of health care and insurance kff.org/867a0e8/
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not surprising but very important to show this
Yousuf Zafar, MD MHS@yzafar29 Aug 2019
Compared to pts w/o a #cancer diagnosis, those w/cancer & high-deductible health plans were more like to delay/forgo cancer care Critical lesson for payers: high cost sharing for cancer care might increase costs & worsen outcomes due to delays. ascopubs.org/doi/abs/10.1200… @JOP_ASCO
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Rural hospitals are closing. This data is so important. #Cancer patients traveling longer distances are more likely to: -Face greater cost -Get admitted to ICU -Get care at sites w/o oncology care Great work @GRocqueMD @StephWheelerUNC @MariaPisu1 et al @JCO_ASCO @DukeForge
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KFF@KFF16 May 2019
NEW: On May 19, average out-of-pocket spending for people with employer coverage meets the average deductible. It’s what we call Deductible Relief Day. Since 2009, deductibles are 150% higher, and people cross this threshold two months later. bit.ly/2W7V7Kk
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Removing #costsharing increased primary care #access & did not negatively affect total #costofcare. Patients experienced a lower total healthcare spending trend through decreases in medical #utilization, driven by less use of the ED. @AJMC_Journal @UM_VBID businesswire.com/news/home/2…
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Check out what we found abt #costofcare conversations from #Cancer survivors and staff at @ONealCancerUAB. @RWJF @UABSOM @UABNews | Ann Intern Med | ACP | bit.ly/2VQuTMs
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Honored to have been part of this effort and to provide guidance on how to do #costofcare conversations for #Cancer patients ! @RWJF @ONealCancerUAB @UABSOM @UABNews
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@AnnalsofIM6 May 2019
If you’re not talking to patients about #costofcare, you should start. A #free supplement to @AnnalsofIM funded by @RWJF includes 8 articles that can help plan your discussions. First up, learn 7 Habits for highly effective cost of care conversations ow.ly/4qbi50u13JK.
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Our recent article in @CAonline highlighting the high level of unmet social support needs in #GeriOnc @CARG_Research @myCARG
ACS Journal Cancer@JournalCancer4 Dec 2018
High levels of unmet social support needs exist among older adults w/ cancer, particularly in informational & medical sub-domains. A proposition of new care models to address these issues: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… #GeriOnc @myCARG @UAB_ICOS @UABCancerCenter
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High levels of unmet social support needs exist among older adults w/ cancer, particularly in informational & medical sub-domains. A proposition of new care models to address these issues: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… #GeriOnc @myCARG @UAB_ICOS @UABCancerCenter
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Why Do Cost-of-Care Conversations Matter? Providers can get the answer to this question in a practice brief co-developed by Avalere with @RWJF project grantees avale.re/2DMWTqG
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Conversations about cost between patients & providers don’t happen enough. As part of a project supported by @RWJF, we built an online resource library of tools to help change this & ensure transparency. Check out the tools at TalkCostofCare.org. #TalkCostofCare
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