Managed Care Cast

Every week, The American Journal of Managed Care® (AJMC®) recaps the top managed care news of the week, and you can now listen to it on our podcast, Managed Care Cast. This week, the top managed care news included pharmaceutical executives appearing before a Senate drug pricing hearing; HHS finalizing a Title X rule change; and an analysis that found travel and wait times for healthcare services c...

Improving Oncology Practices With Value Based Care by Managed Care Cast

Every week, The American Journal of Managed Care® (AJMC®) recaps the top managed care news of the week, and you can now listen to it on our podcast, Managed Care Cast. This week, the top managed care news included CMS' proposal to cover chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy; a study faulting the FDA’s handling of fentanyl oversight; and breast surgeons calling for genetic testing for all patien...

Improving Care While Reducing Costs Through ACOs and Other Value-Based Efforts by Managed Care Cast

Every week, The American Journal of Managed Care® (AJMC®) recaps the top managed care news of the week, and you can now listen to it on our podcast, Managed Care Cast. This week, the top managed care news included increased demand for long-acting contraception since President Trump took office; a payer decision on an insulin pump alarmed diabetes advocates; and despite being involved in cancer tre...

Does Providing Women With Cesarean Delivery Rate Comparison Data Influence Hospital Choice? by Managed Care Cast

Understanding the Scope and Drivers of the Opioid Epidemic by Managed Care Cast

Every week, The American Journal of Managed Care® (AJMC®) recaps the top managed care news of the week, and you can now listen to it on our podcast, Managed Care Cast. This week, the top managed care news included President Trump's State of the Union address highlighting healthcare; HHS Secretary Alex Azar taking on drug rebates; physicians asking Congress to fully implement the HITECH Act. Read m...

Overheard at AcademyHealth: Health Policy, Social Determinants, and Data by Managed Care Cast

Every week, The American Journal of Managed Care® (AJMC®) recaps the top managed care news of the week, and you can now listen to it on our podcast, Managed Care Cast. This week, the top managed care news included House and Senate hearings on the cost of prescription drugs; a study finding patients with diabetes can be safely switched to cheaper insulin; and the first non-chemotherapy combination...

Discussing the Continuing Decline in Overall Cancer Mortality in the United States by Managed Care Cast

Every week, The American Journal of Managed Care® (AJMC®) recaps the top managed care news of the week, and you can now listen to it on our podcast, Managed Care Cast. ​​​​​​​This week, the top managed care news included the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review investigating rising drug prices; CMS expanding value-based insurance design; and researchers using a blood test to detect preclinic...

As Cancer Incidence Changes, so Do Screening Recommendations by Managed Care Cast

Every week, The American Journal of Managed Care® (AJMC®) recaps the top managed care news of the week, and you can now listen to it on our podcast, Managed Care Cast. This week, the top managed care news included a new investigation into drug prices; FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, MD, provided updates on how the government shutdown is impacting FDA work; research found comorbidities impede clin...

Understanding What Drives Health Information Exchange Use During Postacute Care Transitions by Managed Care Cast

Two Years Into OCM: Successes, Challenges, and Lessons Learned by Managed Care Cast

Every week, The American Journal of Managed Care® (AJMC®) recaps the top managed care news of the week, and you can now listen to it on our podcast, Managed Care Cast. This week, the top managed care news included the FDA commissioner discussing boosting drug competition; BMS offering details on its acquisition of Celgene; and cancer mortality rates declining for the 25th consecutive year. Read mo...

Last year was a big year for biosimilars in the United States with the number of FDA-approved biosimilars nearly doubling and major policy and regulatory developments taking place in 2018. Kelly Davio, senior editor of AJMC's The Center for Biosimilars, highlights recent progress, how the US market compares with Europe, and what remains to be seen. Read more: The Center for Biosimilars: https://ww...

Every week, The American Journal of Managed Care® (AJMC®) recaps the top managed care news of the week, and you can now listen to it on our podcast, Managed Care Cast. This week, the top managed care news included a government shutdown affects healthcare; Democrats take control of the House; and AJMC® names its most influential person in healthcare. Read more about the stories in this podcast: How...

To start 2019, Managed Care Cast, the podcast of The American Journal of Managed Care® is taking a look back at 2018. At the end of the year AJMC® had polled readers on 5 big news stories from the year to gauge which one they thought was the most important. Here, Laura Joszt, associate editorial director, and Jaime Rosenberg, assistant editor, discuss these healthcare news stories and reveal which...

Every week, The American Journal of Managed Care® recaps the top managed care news of the week, and you can now listen to it on our podcast, Managed Care Cast. This week, we recapped the top news from 2018 with a look at policy changes, new research, decisions at the polls, and more. Read more about the stories in this podcast: As ACA Enrollment Begins, What's Included in Some Short-Term Insurance...

As 2018 draws to a close, The American Journal of Managed Care® (AJMC®)'s co-editors-in-chief, A. Mark Fendrick, MD, director of the Center for Value-Based Insurance Design at the University of Michigan, and Michael E. Chernew, PhD, director of the Healthcare Markets and Regulation Lab at Harvard Medical School, recapped their favorite AJMC® papers published in 2018, identified events from the yea...

Every week, The American Journal of Managed Care® recaps the top managed care news of the week, and you can now listen to it on our podcast, Managed Care Cast. This week, the top managed care news included a federal judge ruling that the Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional; new diabetes standards address cardiovascular risk; efforts targeting loneliness show improved health outcomes. Read more...

Examining How Mergers and Acquisitions Are Shaking Up Healthcare by Managed Care Cast

Every week, The American Journal of Managed Care® recaps the top managed care news of the week, and you can now listen to it on our podcast, Managed Care Cast. This week, the top managed care news included a report that found uninsured rates were on the rise in 2017; an analysis of rising health insurance costs for families; predictions for cardiology trends in 2019. Read more about the stories in...