A one-minute look at managed care news during the week of March 2, 2015, including oral arguments for King v. Burwell and the approval of the first biosimilar in the United States.
The Supreme Court of the United States heard oral arguments for King v. Burwell this week, and at the end of the hearing the justices were clearly divided about the legality of tax subsidies for consumers on the federally facilitated marketplace.
In oncology news, the US now has its first biosimilar with the FDA approval of Sandoz’s Zarxio for some cancer patients, plus the National Cancer Institute’s director is stepping down.
Finally, The American Journal of Managed Care convened a panel of experts to discuss the role of formulary management in the changing dynamics for hepatitis C. Listen to the panel discussion here.
Managed Care Reflections: A Q&A With A. Mark Fendrick, MD, and Michael E. Chernew, PhD
December 2nd 2025To 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.
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