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, and you can now listen to it on our podcast, Managed Care Cast.
This week, the top stories in managed care included competing healthcare reform bills in the Senate; the FDA announced progress in clearing up the backlog of orphan drug requests; and a study examines how much it really costs to bring a drug to the market.
Read more about the stories mentioned in this podcast at the following links:
Senators Reveal Competing Plans for Health Reform: Block Grants vs Medicare for All
FDA Announces Progress, Next Steps in Streamlining Orphan Drug Review Process
Bringing Drugs to Market Costs Less Than Previously Thought, Study Finds
Quest Moves to More Accurate, Nonfasting Cholesterol Test Method
MACRA Survey Finds Oncology Physicians Unprepared for Payment Changes
ASCO Releases Guidelines on Patient—Clinician Communication
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Personalized Care Key as Tirzepatide Use Expands Rapidly
April 15th 2025Using commercial insurance claims data and the US launch of tirzepatide as their dividing point, John Ostrominski, MD, Harvard Medical School, and his team studied trends in the use of both glucose-lowering and weight-lowering medications, comparing outcomes between adults with and without type 2 diabetes.
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Navigating Sport-Related Neurospine Injuries, Surgery, and Managed Care
February 25th 2025On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we speak with Arthur L. Jenkins III, MD, FACS, CEO of Jenkins NeuroSpine, to explore the intersection of advanced surgical care for sport-related neurospine injuries and managed care systems.
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