Coverage of our peer-reviewed research and news reporting in the health care and mainstream press.
A piece by RevCycleIntelligence referenced a study published in the May 2020 issue of The American Journal of Managed Care® (AJMC®), titled “Accountable Care Organizations Are Increasingly Led by Physician Groups Rather Than Hospital Systems.” The study indicated that the growing shift toward physician-led accountable care organizations (ACOs) rather than hospital systems since 2015 requires policies that address the characteristic strengths and weaknesses of physician-led ACOs.
An article posted on amny.com cited a study published in a supplement of AJMC®, “The Essential Role of Community Pharmacies in Expanding Access to Vaccines.” The study highlighted how pharmacists are ideally positioned to overcome barriers to improving adult vaccination rates, which extend from a lack of public awareness regarding the need for vaccines and the ongoing threat of vaccine-preventable diseases to challenges regarding financial/reimbursement systems for providers.
Managed Care Reflections: A Q&A With Hoangmai H. Pham, MD, MPH
April 1st 2025To mark the 30th anniversary of The American Journal of Managed Care® (AJMC®), each issue in 2025 will include a special feature: reflections from a thought leader on what has changed—and what has not—over the past 3 decades and what’s next for managed care. The April issue features a conversation with Hoangmai H. Pham, MD, MPH, a member of AJMC’s editorial board and the president and CEO of the Institute for Exceptional Care (IEC).
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Examining Low-Value Cancer Care Trends Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic
April 25th 2024On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we're talking with the authors of a study published in the April 2024 issue of The American Journal of Managed Care® about their findings on the rates of low-value cancer care services throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Bridging Care Gaps With a Systemwide Value-Based Care Strategy
March 29th 2025Mapping care management needs by defining patient populations and then stratifying them according to risk and their needs can help to spur the transformation of a siloed health care system into an integrated system that is able to better provide holistic, value-based care despite the many transitions that continue among hospital, primary, specialty, and community care environments.
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