TKG PACT Executive Briefings - 3-Minute Market Insights
Welcome to the TKG PACT Executive Briefing, where in 3-minutes we highlight healthcare’s critical market access issues, policies, challenges, or trends. This resource offers condensed, 3-minute episodes of market insights.
Our passion is on achieving the Quintuple Aim of enhancing patient experience, improving population health, reducing costs, improving the work life of health care providers and staff., and enhancing health equity in all aspects of care delivery.
I’m Dr. Warren Smedley, thank you for joining us.
Episodes
58 episodes
Medication Adherence for Patients with Severe Mental Illness.
Medication Adherence for Patients with Severe Mental Illness.Adherence to prescribed medication regimens improves outcomes for patients with severe mental illness, such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorders, and major depressive dis...
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Season 4
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Episode 14
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3:53
CRISPR Gene-Editing Therapy
Introduction to Gene-Editing Therapy: CRISPRCRISPR is a relatively new medical advancement that was inspired by the natural defense mechanism found in some microbes, such as bacteria. To protect themselves against invaders like vi...
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Season 4
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Episode 13
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3:35
Introduction to Targeted Therapies: CAR T-cell Therapy
Introduction to Targeted Therapies: CAR T-cell Therapy T-cell Transfer Therapy is a special type of immunotherapy that takes a person’s own T-cells (a type of immune cell), adds specific antigens to the T-cells that can identify th...
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Season 4
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Episode 12
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3:30
Provider Insights on the Impact of 340B Pricing
Provider Insights on the Impact of 340B Pricing.We frequently get asked for insights on how the 340B Drug Pricing Program may... or may not... be impacting the prescribing choices of participating covered entities. The Heal...
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Season 4
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Episode 11
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3:54
The Federal NOPAIN Act
Today’s topic is the The Federal NOPAIN Act.The Federal “Non-Opioids Prevent Addiction In the Nation Act” (or, the “NOPAIN Act”), Senate bill S.586, was signed into law in December 2022. It takes effect this coming January as part of the...
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Season 4
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Episode 10
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3:19
High Value Pharmacy Enterprise Framework
The High-Value Pharmacy Enterprise Framework.The High-Value Pharmacy Enterprise Framework is a collection of evidence-based and expert recommended best practices designed to enhance health system pharmacy operations by ensuring sa...
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Season 4
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Episode 9
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4:23
Introduction to Targeted Therapies: Monoclonal Antibodies
Introduction to Targeted Therapies: Monoclonal AntibodiesTargeted Therapy is the foundation of Precision Medicine. Targeted therapy is a type of personalized treatment that targets specific proteins that control how cells grow, di...
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Season 4
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Episode 8
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3:32
Pharmacist Collaborative Practice Agreements (CPAs)
All 50 states now allow pharmacists and physicians to enter into Collaborative Practice Agreements (CPAs) in which one or more pharmacists establish a formal relationship with a prescriber, in which the prescriber can delegate specific tasks to...
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Season 4
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Episode 7
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3:59
Understanding the “bagging” of Patient Medications
When a physician prescribes an expensive specialty medication for a patient, the traditional distribution process was for the provider to purchase the medication, administer it to the patient, and then bill the insurance company for the drug. T...
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Season 4
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Episode 6
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3:25
Laboratory Benefit Managers
Laboratory Benefit Managers have emerged over the past decade to fill the need to manage complex and expensive laboratory testing for payers. They have become the new Precision Medicine Gatekeepers. Results from over 14 billion diag...
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2:47
Barriers to New Therapy Adoption: Therapeutic Inertia
The term therapeutic inertia describes the failure of health care providers to initiate or intensify therapy when it is clearly indicated by established guidelines. The term has largely been applied to the management of blood pressure, blood su...
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3:25
State Drug Price Transparency Laws
Since 2016, 13 states have passed Drug Price Transparency Laws focused on enabling state policymakers to understand opaque drug pricing and payment systems to formulate policy solutions to high prices, while also creating the data infrastructur...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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2:46
CMS Prior Authorization Final Rule
Today's topic is the CMS Prior Authorization Final Rule On January 17th, 2024, CMS published the CMS Interoperability and Prior Authorization Final Rule, to improve the electronic exchange of health care data as well as to streamli...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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2:46
Federal No Surprises Act
Today’s topic is the Federal No Surprises Act.The Federal No Surprises Act is intended to protect consumers from unexpected medical bills that occur when a patient unknowingly receives medical services from physicians and other providers...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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3:12
Welcome to the New Format!
Welcome to our new and revised market insights podcast format, where we have renamed our program the TKG PACT Executive Briefing. The new format will be condensed into 3-minute episodes of market insights, where we highlight one of healthcare’s...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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2:38
Telehealth Policy Gaps: Challenges with Remote Prescribing
Telehealth Policy Gaps: Challenges with Remote PrescribingOn May 11th, the Public Health Emergency (PHE) and some of the provisions that supported the explosive growth of telehealth, will expire, leaving telehealth providers scra...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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42:30
Circling the Wagons… to Solve Real Problems in Neurology
Circling the Wagons… to Solve Real Problems in NeurologyIt is estimated that globally, one in six people are affected by a health issue that includes some form of a neurological disorder. Within the United States,...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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40:59
"Period Poverty"... a Taboo Topic?
"Period Poverty"... a Taboo Topic?Unfortunately, there are some issues in healthcare that seem to get ignored, or simply don’t get discussed appropriately, and today’s topic is one of these challenging issues. In many circ...
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Season 2
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Episode 14
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20:37
NCCN Policy & Advocacy Priorities
NCCN Policy & Advocacy Priorities Supporting high quality cancer care through the NCCN Guidelines is a strategic pillar for the NCCN. Alyssa Schatz is the Senior Director of Policy & Advocacy at the National Comprehensive...
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Season 2
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Episode 13
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38:23
Musical Chairs... Improving Infusion Therapy.
Musical Chairs... Improving Infusion Therapy“Musical Chairs”… how are we managing infusion center operations amid the financial and staffing woes of a healthcare system exhausted from nearly 3 years of a roller coaster ride due t...
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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41:18
Who trains surgeons what medications to prescribe?
Who trains surgeons what medications to prescribe?We don't often think about surgeons as being significant prescribers of medications, but they actually prescribe a lot of medications and help patients manage their medications, a...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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35:28
Impact of Operating Room Shut Downs Due to Staffing Shortages
Impact of Operating Room Shut Downs Due to Staffing ShortagesA recent article in the Boston Globe raised a red alert on hospital operating rooms being temporarily closed due to staffing shortages and other pandemic related challe...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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35:23
Advancing Health Equity: Individual Point of Care Solutions
Advancing Health Equity: Individual Point of Care SolutionsHealth equity is a complex issue, with a broad range of governmental, social service, and health care stakeholders who are wrestling with these issues. My guests today ar...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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19:25
Advancing Health Equity: Using Data and Technology to Improve Outcomes.
Advancing Health Equity: Using Data and Technology to Improve Outcomes.Health equity is a complex issue, with a broad range of governmental, social service, and health care stakeholders who are wrestling with these issues. My gue...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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25:29
Advancing Health Equity: How are we doing?
Advancing Health Equity: How are we doing?Health equity is a complex issue, with a broad range of governmental, social service, and health care stakeholders who are wrestling with these issues. My guests today are The Kinetix Gro...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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29:17