Thursday, January 13, 2022 | The Latest Research, Commentary, And News From Health Affairs
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A new study assesses physicians' knowledge about their responsibilities under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Physicians' Knowledge of the ADA
Lisa Iezzoni and coauthors surveyed physicians across the US to examine the extent to which they understood their obligations to patients
with disabilities under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), particularly concerning reasonable accommodations to ensure the provision of equitable care to patients with disability.
"Across all participants, 35.8 percent reported knowing little or nothing about their responsibilities under the ADA," Iezzoni and coauthors reported. They also found that 68.4 percent of participants believed that they were at risk for an ADA lawsuit because of accommodation problems.
Today in Health Affairs Forefront, Kimberly Westrich and Robert Dubois discuss value allocation decisions for curative gene therapies.
Rachel Sachs discusses the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS’) proposal that monoclonal antibodies directed
against amyloid for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease be covered for Medicare beneficiaries only under CMS’ Coverage with Evidence Development pathway.
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