Professor of Medicine and Pharmacy Univ of Pittsburgh; Senior Medical Director, Center for Value Based Pharmacy Initiatives, UPMC Health Plan. Opinions mine
Pittsburgh, PA
Joined July 2009
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Bernie Good retweeted
💊 A new study by @CBGood23 & colleagues sheds light on demographic & clinical profiles of very high-cost #pharmaceutical users, revealing key 💵 drivers like HIV, cancer, & inflammatory conditions.
Learn more about rising drug costs & policy solutions: journals.lww.com/lww-medical…
Bernie Good retweeted
A retrospective cross-sectional multi-year study by Samuel Peasah, @CBGood23, & colleagues found csDMARDs were highly used consistently in patients with #RheumatoidArthritis.
Read more about their results in @DrugsRWOutcomes: link.springer.com/article/10…
Bernie Good retweeted
Samuel Peasah, @CBGood23, & more found a financial incentive & refill reminder program was associated with improved adherence to antithrombotic meds, reduced ED use, & increased RX costs, but not in total pharmacy, medical, or total cost of care.
🗞️ jmcp.org/doi/10.18553/jmcp.2…
Bernie Good retweeted
Come and learn how @icer_review, @Highmark_BCBS, @MassHealth, and Canada are assessing prescription digital therapeutics on Friday, Oct 13. Moderated by @CBGood23 and @SuzanneMcgurn.
Brought to you by the ISPOR #HTA Roundtable - North America.
Are you interested in the payer perspective of prescription digital therapeutics? Join us to learn how payers and #HTA bodies from North America assess #digitaltherapies for safety, effectiveness, and value at a webinar on October 13. ow.ly/SL4t50PS8wt
Bernie Good retweeted
Findings suggest PPPM total cost of care of patients receiving empagliflozin was similar to PPPM total cost of care of patients receiving nonempagliflozin antidiabetic medications.
Read more from @CBGood23 & colleagues: ow.ly/bBKt50ML9W5
Bernie Good retweeted
An #invitedcommentary by @CBGood23 & @ihdezdelso in @JAMAHealthForum gives insight to possible reasons for rising #drugcosts 📈
Read it here: ow.ly/PKYq50LepqO
Bernie Good retweeted
Tune in to our interview with Dr Chester "Bernie" Good (@CBGood23), senior medical director of the Center for Value Based Pharmacy Initiatives at @UPMCHealthPlan, as he talks about the evolution of value-based contracts.
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Bernie Good retweeted
‼️ New Paper ‼️
Our team has spent the last 3 years trying to answer the question: does where you live impact if you receive blood thinners for #AFib.
Short answer: YES!
A journey to what we found, what it means, and what we can do about it.
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Bernie Good retweeted
We were asked to write about balance of harms and benefits of antidepressants based on current knowledge for @DTB_BMJ, a BMJ journal that is famously independent and does not take pharma sponsorship/advertising bit.ly/3mnJXNn 1/n
Bernie Good retweeted
In this study by @CBGood23 & colleagues from the UPMC Center for High-Value Health Care and @Evernorth, the ticagrelor cohort had the highest medication adherence & the clopidogrel cohort had the highest readmission rate.
Full test available 👉 ow.ly/Lykw50GTxfQ
Bernie Good retweeted
Switching from dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitors to glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists or sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors was associated with fewer hospitalizations; however, higher #pharmacy costs. @amcporg study with PittGIM's @CBGood23: jmcp.org/doi/pdf/10.18553/jm…
Bernie Good retweeted
Analysis in @JournalGIM does not support the supposition that access to #marijuana lowers use of chronic #opioids for pain. Study including PittGIM's @CBGood23. @ParekhNatasha @UPMCHealthPlan link.springer.com/article/10…
Bernie Good retweeted
New year, new publication! CP3's @asjrodriguez, @CBGood23, @walidgellad, @ihdezdelso with @pittpharmacy's Vincent Piro examined price trends of injectable TNF factors and found net prices of adalimumab tripled.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3337…
@PittGIM @vaequity @PittHealthSci
Bernie Good retweeted
As employers attempt to understand the value of carving in versus carving out pharmacy benefits to health plans, @amcporg study with PittGIM's @CBGood23 suggests that carving in pharmacy benefits is associated with reduced medical costs & hospitalizations. jmcp.org/doi/10.18553/jmcp.2…
Bernie Good retweeted
Seems like two cases of transverse myelitis in one of the major vaccine trials. Terrible news, a reminder that research participants take on risk for all of us.
Also a reminder that we should invest in public health even while we wait for a vaccine. nytimes.com/2020/09/19/healt…
Bernie Good retweeted
Addressing the challenges of deprescribing creates an important opportunity to lower prescription drug burden and resultant harms among older, fragile, and complex adults. In @JournalGIM by @ParekhNatasha, PittGIM's @SchenkerYael & @CBGood23, @willshrank. link.springer.com/article/10…
Bernie Good retweeted
New study in @JournalGIM by @ihdezdelso, @asjrodriguez, & PittGIM's @CBGood23 & @walidgellad demonstrates that the majority of Medicare Part D discounts originate from 6 therapeutic classes, w/ 10 drugs accounting for ~1/2 of all Medicare Part D discounts. link.springer.com/article/10…
Bernie Good retweeted
New paper in @JournalGIM from our top drug price research team of @ihdezdelso, @asjrodriguez, @CBGood23, & @walidgellad determined that most #Medicare Part D discounts originate from a few therapeutic classes of drugs.
link.springer.com/article/10…
Bernie Good retweeted
After seeing patients all day, my Dad is going to settle into his office, open up his weekly copy of @NEJM and see his son’s name in it. And that makes all of this worth it. 🙏🏾
Thanks @QuentinYoumans @DrQuinnCapers4 for the collab.
#BlackMenInMedicine
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