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UMass Medical School’s nationally recognized thought leader on transitioning to a single-payer health care system, Katharine London, is a featured speaker at the Boston Bar Association’s “Single Payer Health Care: Why? How & When?” event May 14.
The Autism Insurance Resource Center honored Disability Evaluation Services Client Service Manager Kathleen Nichols with the Champion Award for her unwavering commitment to serving people with disabilities in Massachusetts.
UMass Medical School's Joyce A. Murphy, MPA, executive vice chancellor of the Commonwealth Medicine division, has joined the Board of Directors at both Meridian Bancorp, Inc. and East Boston Savings Bank.
The complexities of gene therapies, current and future indications and budget impacts as outlined by UMass Medical School's Nicole Trask, PharmD, are featured in a Managed Healthcare Executive article.
The Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) has awarded the AMCP Foundation Best Poster Award in the Residents and Fellows category to UMass Medical School resident Sage Bagwell, PharmD.
For the third year, UMass Medical School’s Work Without Limits, is teaming up with the American Association of People with Disabilities to bring Disability Mentoring Day to Massachusetts on April 27.
Clinical pharmacists from UMass Medical School are set to share their work at the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) Managed Care & Specialty Pharmacy Annual Meeting on April 24 at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center.
Hepatitis C is curable, with a new class of drugs boasting success rates of 90 percent or more. But the costs of these treatments can pose serious cost issues for state Medicaid programs and other health plans, notes Pavel Lavitas, PharmD, BCPS.
The Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy has elected Nicole Trask, PharmD, of UMass Medical School to a two-year term as secretary of the AMCP Northeast Regional Affiliate.
UMass Medical School will bestow the inaugural Warren J. Ferguson Scholarship award to Precious Bedell, a tireless advocate for improving the lives of people affected by incarceration, at the Academic & Health Policy Conference on Correctional Health.
Amid constant change in the world of medicine and health care, insurance adjusters must keep a close eye on the latest advances, notes David Nowell, PhD.
The new crop of hepatitis C drugs released over the past few years are both highly effective and highly expensive, says Pavel Lavitas.
A UMass Medical School health policy expert will share our deep long-term services and supports (LTSS) expertise when presenting at The World Congress 3rd Annual Managed Long Term Services and Supports Summit.
UMass Medical School pharmacists will display some of our pivotal opioid management work and present a NASH budget impact model at the American Drug Utilization Review Society (ADURS) conference February 22-24, 2018 in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Well-trained claims adjusters can play a key role in evaluating valid work-related injuries while also protecting against fraud, says David Nowell, PhD.