RYE BROOK, N.Y. (July 10, 2024)– The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s (LLS) Fairness in Entry Analysis Program has collectively awarded almost $6.5 million to well being companies researchers working to uncover and in the end tackle the social, financial, and environmental disadvantages that stand in the best way of blood most cancers sufferers and survivors accessing the high-quality remedy and care they want all through their lives.
Researchers Anushree Vichare, Clese Erikson and Qian “Eric” Luo from the Milken Institute College of Public Well being on the George Washington College are among the many recipients of the analysis funding.
LLS expanded Fairness in Entry in 2024 by looking for proposals that might improve understanding of the affect of medical health insurance on entry to care and implement and consider interventions designed to enhance therapeutic medical trial enrollment, notably amongst underrepresented teams.
“Whereas most cancers can affect anybody, the unlucky actuality is that equitable entry to high-quality, inexpensive remedy and care is out of attain for a lot of, and no different group is funding analysis particularly on fairness in entry for blood most cancers sufferers and survivors,” stated Eric Cooks, Senior Director, Fairness in Entry Analysis Program at LLS. “As a number one most cancers nonprofit , LLS is dedicated to reworking lives by way of our holistic method throughout analysis, affected person assist, and advocacy which incorporates advancing well being fairness and eliminating well being disparities. This analysis is a primary step towards serving to all sufferers and survivors obtain significant entry to the remedy and care they want once they want it.”
Vichare, Erikson and Luo will use national-level Medicaid claims knowledge over eight years (2016-2023) linked to healthcare utilization data to watch telehealth provision by hematology oncologists, with a deal with figuring out whether or not there are variations in telehealth uptake amongst weak populations corresponding to racial/ethnic minoritized teams and people dwelling in rural areas. The research will even study how latest legislative adjustments in telehealth protection and Medicaid funds affect telehealth entry. By together with sufferers lined by Medicaid, the findings will present first-known estimates on patterns of telehealth utilization by these sufferers and inform methods to enhance telehealth entry by way of coverage reforms.
Findings from the research might in the end result in higher well being outcomes by figuring out steps healthcare methods, suppliers, insurers and policymakers can take to extend equitable entry to high quality and inexpensive blood most cancers remedy (together with remedy on a medical trial).
