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Podcast: This Week in Managed Care—COVID-19 Racial Disparities and Other Health News
Every week, The American Journal of Managed Care® recaps the top managed care news of the week, and you can now listen to it on our podcast, Managed Care Cast.
Every week, The American Journal of Managed Care® recaps the top managed care news of the week.
This week, the top managed care news included CMS proposing rules for value-based contracting in Medicaid; claims data highlighting racial disparities in COVID-19 effects; an interview with Anthony Fauci, MD, on the progress made against HIV.
Listen above or through one of these podcast services:
CMS Issues Rules to Promote Value-Based Contracting, Pay for High-Cost Therapies in Medicaid
Medicare Claims Data Further Highlight Pandemic's Toll on Racial Minorities
What Is Being Done to Assess the Disproportionate Effect of COVID-19 on Minority, Rural Communities?
Fauci: Countless Lives Have Been Saved, but an HIV Vaccine and Cure Remain Elusive
PwC Provides 3 Spending Scenarios to Address Implications of COVID-19 on the 2021 Medical Cost Trend
Infectious Diseases and Anemia in a Sample of Out-of-Treatment Drug Users
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Overall Incidence of HIV in Donated Blood Declined Despite Reduction in Deferral Periods
September 8th 2025Reducing the deferral period from 12 months to 3 months for those with high-risk behaviors did not increase the incidence of infectious diseases like HIV and hepatitis B appearing in donated blood.
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ACC017 Showed Safety, Tolerability When Used as Antiretroviral Therapy
September 4th 2025New abstracts from the 26th International Workshop on Clinical Pharmacology of HIV, Hepatitis, and Other Antiviral Drugs 2025 found that ACC017 showed promise in its use as an antiretroviral therapy.
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