Medicare To Tie Doctors' Pay To Quality, Cost Of Care

Despite significant progress in expanding health insurance coverage since the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was enacted, millions of Americans still face critical gaps in access to and affordability of health care.

On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we're talking with the author of a study published in the October 2024 issue of The American Journal of Managed Care® that explored prior authorization decisions in cancer care by race and ethnicity for commercially insured patients.

Kasey Bond, MPH, of Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone Health, speaks to why it’s vital to keep patients at the center of all strategic partnerships between academic institutions and community-based oncology practices.

Delia Orosco, MS, director of Community Wellness Centers at Inland Empire Health Plan, shares insight into innovative initiatives provided by the wellness centers and their new mobile mammogram clinics.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr, a prominent antivaccine activist and former independent presidential candidate, has been nominated to lead HHS, where he would oversee significant aspects of the nation’s public health policy.

President-elect Donald J. Trump has announced his selection of Robert F. Kennedy Jr as his chosen nominee for secretary of HHS—a role in which the vaccine skeptic could wield enormous influence over public health.