Insurance

Although most insurance providers, including Medicare and private insurers, cover medical nutrition therapy for individuals with chronic kidney disease, few patients ever meet with a registered dietician.

Public insurance, less education and health care access and resources contribute to risk of developing diabetic eye disease complications, according to results presented at the virtual American Academy of Ophthalmology annual meeting.

Socioeconomic and insurance status appeared associated with increased mortality after prostate cancer surgery among Black men, who were twice as likely as white men to die of the disease, according to study results published in Cancer.

Insurance status was independently associated with acute-on-chronic liver failure in patients with cirrhosis in an analysis of data from North America published in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology.

Eli Lilly announced on Tuesday it will introduce a $35 insulin copay card for anyone with commercial insurance and those without insurance in response to the economic crisis caused by COVID-19, according to an industry press release.

Published results showed inferior overall survival among pediatric, adolescent and young adult patients with soft tissue sarcoma who had low-income public insurance compared to patients with private insurance.

More than half of people with commercial insurance who began pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, persisted with it for 12 months, compared with a third of those with Medicaid, according to findings published in Clinical Infectious Diseases.

Many young physicians, fellows and residents look at their financial situation and do not think of themselves as owning any significant assets, never mind being wealthy. This may be understandable, as most young doctors have low income during their training years and, even when having higher incomes once they are in practice, may be saddled with significant debt from student loans.