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Jennifer Malin, MD, Discusses Challenges Facing Payers in Medical Oncology
Jennifer Malin, MD, medical director for oncology at Anthem, explains how both physicians and payers struggle with the high cost of some cancer treatment drugs.
Jennifer Malin, MD, medical director for oncology at Anthem, believes that both physicians and payers struggle with the high cost of some cancer treatment drugs, which is a large part of what medical oncology focuses on.
She says it’s hard to weigh the high cost of the therapy in a manner that doesn’t put the risk on the physician.
“I think that’s the challenge, trying to figure out how to support the care of these complex patients, not incentivizing use of expensive therapies that aren’t going to improve outcomes but also not putting physicians at risk for a $10,000 a month therapy,” Dr Malin says.
Unlocking Access: Exploring Mental Health Care Among Medicaid Managed Care Enrollees
January 23rd 2025On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we speak with the author of a study published in the January 2025 issue of The American Journal of Managed Care® to examine the association between quantitative network adequacy standards and mental health care access among adult Medicaid enrollees.
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How FcRn Blockade Targets Myasthenia Gravis Autoantibodies
January 29th 2025In part 2 of our interview with Katie Abouzahr, MD, Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine, we discuss the challenge inherent in treating adolescents who have the myasthenia gravis and how nipocalimab works via FcRn blockade to reduce the circulating autoantibodies that drive myasthenia gravis.
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