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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

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2015, 2016. And then 2016 after CMMI finished the evaluation, it looked good, nothing happened. And those people have a higher, not just dementia, but other multiple chronic conditions. What we didn’t have was the payment model to deliver the comprehensive dementia care. Malaz: Yeah. Is it any stage of dementia?

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Drug Pricing Reform Gathers Steam (Part 1): White House Drug Pricing Plan Offers Laundry List of Existing Democrat Priorities

FDA Law Blog

One proposal is a cap on out-of-pocket costs, primarily to help beneficiaries with expensive chronic conditions that can face large, even catastrophic, out-of-pocket spending every year. The Plan supports legislative action to control total drug costs and patient out-of-pocket (“OOP”) costs for Medicare Part D beneficiaries.