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April 15, 2021 | GenomeWeb
Trapelo Health, Magellan Hope to Ease Prior Authorization for Precision Oncology Testing
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The recently announced partnership between Trapelo Health and the Magellan Rx Management pharmacy benefits management arm of Magellan Health promises to make value-based oncology care more accessible by closing an important part of the treatment loop: insurance authorization and payment for biomarker-guided cancer therapy.
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Last week, the companies announced plans to bundle their technologies to support this process.
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Trapelo, of Burlington, Massachusetts, makes a clinical decision support system that links healthcare providers, testing laboratories, and payors, giving them access to molecular testing information, ordering, and results interpretation in order to optimize utilization of molecular testing services and offer the most appropriate care to patients.
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January 2021 | Journal of Precision Medicine
Finding the "Easy Button" in Precision Medicine
Trapelo offers an interoperable, shared, precision medicine platform that enables real‑time, actionable decision support, treatment selection, and reimbursement assurance. This Q&A interview with Janine Morales, Ph.D., Senior Director Clinical Knowledge Systems and Clynt Taylor, Chief Executive Officer, of Trapelo Health uncovers how the platform is impacting, and even transforming, clinical practice and patient care.
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August 12, 2019 | BioWorld MedTech
Data seen as replacing policy as coverage tool for precision medicine
The era of big data might still be in its infancy, but payers are already dealing with a deluge of bits and bytes that threatens to overwhelm their ability to keep up with recent developments in medical science. Clynt Taylor, CEO of Intervention Insights Inc., of Burlington, Mass., told BioWorld MedTech that payers are starting to see the light when it comes to reacting to data that suggest a shift in coverage policy, but that over time, payers will replace those fixed policies with a data-driven approach that adapts to patients' needs in real time.
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July 14, 2020 | Managed Healthcare Executive
It's Possible for Those Who Practice, Pay for Precision Oncology to Catch Up to Speed of Innovation
In this article, Dr. Lee Newcomer shares his opinion on the state of precision oncology.
The fast-evolving field of precision medicine offers the promise of more effective treatments and better outcomes, and it’s time that we collaborate to keep outdated clinical and reimbursement practices from slowing it down. Only when everyone is aligned around what’s most appropriate for the patient, will consistent, value-based precision oncology be possible.
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July, 2019 | HIT Like A Girl Podcast
An interview with Janine Morales, PhD, Senior Director Clinical Knowledge Systems
In this podcast, Janine Morales, PhD of Intervention Insights shares her career path as a woman in Health IT and how her company’s real-time, evidence-supported technology platform helps oncologists, practices, molecular labs, and payers make the most appropriate decisions for cancer patients.
July 26, 2019 | Healthcare IT News
Physicians are key to making precision medicine investments pay off
As the practice of tailoring technology-driven treatment plans for each patient takes hold, physicians are being asked to make more specific decisions than ever before.
Finding the best care for a patient can be a constantly moving target. The number of stakeholders, the constant advance of new information and treatment options and the nuanced demands of different payers make for a maze of complexities to navigate. In the field of oncology, for example, nobody but a specialist could be expected to keep up with the growing wealth of knowledge in the treatment of individual cancers.
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Yet most patients are treated by general oncologists who may not be abreast of every best course of action for specific conditions. These practices might not know which treatments a patient could be pre-approved for, or which payers are most likely to compensate and for what. As the practice of tailoring precision medicine plans for each patient takes hold, physicians are being asked to make more specific treatment decisions than ever before.
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"You have labs, you have payers, you have providers and you have pharma – and they’re all interested in what the doctor is about to do with a patient," said Clynt Taylor, CEO of Intervention Insights, which makes a tool called Trapelo that helps streamline treatment and payment options.
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June 21, 2019 | American Journal of Managed Care
Removing the Barriers to Improve the Use of Diagnostic Tests for Precision Cancer Care
Currently, the number of patients who are actually utilizing precision cancer care treatments is small, but it is growing fast. As that happens, physicians will need to get comfortable with ordering the right tests, explained Clynt Taylor, chief executive officer of Intervention Insights, and Lee Newcomer, MD, formerly of UnitedHealth Group.