Podcasts

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.

Tom Gallo, the former president of the Association of Community Cancer Centers (ACCC), and Ali McBride, PharmD, the current president of ACCC, discuss how their members feel about the state of cancer delivery, recent trends, addressing burnout, and sustainability of cancer care delivery.

The presence of loneliness among older patients is significant and has gained the attention of healthcare stakeholders, with some warning that it could become and epidemic.

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.

Generic drugs offer treatment options that are as safe and effective as brand name drugs while also helping lower costs for both patients and health systems. It's estimated that over the last 10 years, generics have saved Americans $1.5 trillion

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.

A study in this month's Medicaid themed issue explored the obstacles standing between Medicaid beneficiaries and access to specialty care in states that have expanded Medicaid. It also discussed strategies that community health centers may use to help their Medicaid patients obtain visits with specialists.

The federal government has been releasing a number of policies and proposals that will affect care delivery and are aimed at rising costs of care and prescription drugs.

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.

In this month's issue of The American Journal of Accountable Care®, a sister publication of The American Journal of Managed Care®, a commentary argues that current population health efforts under Medicare's Merit-based Incentive System (MIPS) have been hampered by the misalignment of accountability, and therefore, population health management will improve when shared accountability among stakeholders is achieved.

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.

On March 7, The American Journal of Managed Care® will host its latest Institute for Value-Based Medicine in Dallas, Texas, with the Advancing Quality Oncology Care in the Evolving Value-Based Care Landscape meeting.

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.

Improving the quality of care while also reducing costs has become a centerpiece for transforming the US healthcare system. As efforts across the country continue to be introduced, accountable care organizations (ACOs) have emerged as an effective way to address these 2 issues.

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.

A study in this month's issue sought to determine whether directly giving women access to cesarean delivery rates of local hospitals affected their choice of hospital.

Understanding the scope, as well as the underlying drivers, of the opioid epidemic is crucial for gaining hold of and ending the epidemic.

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.

During the AcademyHealth 2019 National Health Policy Conference held in Washington, DC, healthcare stakeholders from across the country joined to make sense of healthcare policy and examine new and innovative ways of addressing a person's health.

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.

In this podcast, we speak with Rebecca Siegel, MPH, strategic director of surveillance information services in the Intramural Research Department at the American Cancer Society, and the lead author of the annual Cancer Statistics report that estimates the number of new cancer cases and deaths in the United States each year.

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.

Five years ago, the American Cancer Society (ACS) recommended that patients at average risk of colorectal cancer start getting screened at age 50. However, in recent years, cancer incidence has changed, with a growing incidence seen in patients under age 50. Reflecting this change, ACS changed the recommended sceening age to 45 in May 2018.

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.

Dori A. Cross, PhD, discusses a study she was an author on, which characterized the drivers of the use of electronic health information exchange by skilled nursing facilities to access patient hospital data during care transitions. The paper was published in the annual health information technology issue from The American Journal of Managed Care®.

In this podcast, we speak with 2 experts to discuss results from Performance Period 2, and get insight into the successes, challenges, and lessons learned under the Oncology Care Model (OCM), thus far.

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.

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.

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.

For the last week of 2018, The American Journal of Managed Care® polled readers on 5 big news stories from the year to gauge which one they thought was the most important.