Assessment of Health Insurance Benefit Mandates for Fertility Preservation Among 11 US States.

Importance: Multiple US states recently passed laws mandating health insurance coverage for fertility preservation (FP) services to improve access to care for patients with cancer, for whom FP service expenses can be prohibitive. Key unanswered questions include how heterogeneous benefit mandate laws and regulations are and how this variation may affect implementation, access, and utilization.

Objective: To describe the design of state-level FP health insurance benefit mandate laws and regulations and derive guidance on best practices and implementation needs.

Patient interest in and barriers to telemedicine video visits in a multilingual urban safety-net system.

Objective: To determine interest in and barriers to video visits in safety-net patients with diverse age, racial/ethnic, or linguistic background.

Materials And Methods: We surveyed patients in an urban safety-net system to assess: interest in video visits; ability to successfully complete test video visits; and barriers to successful completion of test video visits.

Results: Among 202 participants, of which 177 (87.

A prospective randomized study to compare the molecular response rates between central lymphatic irradiation and intensive alternating triple chemotherapy in the treatment of stage I-III follicular lymphoma.

Purpose: This study was undertaken to compare the molecular response (MR) rates of 2 regimens, central lymphatic irradiation (CLI) and alternating triple therapy (ATT), in the treatment of Stage I-III follicular lymphoma. MR was defined as disappearance of t(14;18) (q32;q21) amplified by polymerase chain reaction (PCR).

Patients And Methods: Sixty-five patients with Stage I to III follicular lymphoma were randomized.