Hospitals React to Readmission Penalties

With ACA subsidies ending in 2025, Ben Light explains how rising premiums may push individuals toward ICHRAs and reshape employer health coverage strategy.

Experts discuss the clinical and economic burden of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), emerging clinical data, and strategies to improve patient outcomes.

This commentary proposes a hybrid drug pricing reform model balancing most favored nation (MFN) benchmarking with domestic negotiation strategies that drive equity-focused valuation frameworks.

Rachel A. Prusynski, DPT, PhD, discusses her study on how payment models affect home health care delivery and patient outcomes.

To mark the 30th anniversary of The American Journal of Managed Care (AJMC), each issue in 2025 includes 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 December issue features a conversation with AJMC Co–Editors in Chief A. Mark Fendrick, MD, director of the Center for Value-Based Insurance Design and a professor at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor; and Michael E. Chernew, PhD, the Leonard D. Schaeffer Professor of Health Care Policy and the director of the Healthcare Markets and Regulation Lab at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts.

McKesson's report highlights key trends in community oncology, emphasizing patient-centered care, precision medicine, and the need for innovative clinical trials.