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 managed care stories included a road map to develop state-level programs to care for complex populations; the Physician-focused Payment Technical Advisory Committee backed 2 new alternative payment models; a new cancer gene profiling test may open doors to new targeted therapies.
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Read more about the stories in this podcast:
Developing State-Level Programs for Care of Complex Populations
Renee Murray Explains How Hotspotting Is Used
What We're Reading: Hospital Penalization; New APMs; EHR Challenges
Cancer Gene Profiling Test Can Open Doors to New Targeted Therapies
5 Events in the Nation's Capital That Drove Managed Care News in 2017
Care Quality Metrics in Medicare During COVID-19 Pandemic
August 12th 2025Medicare Advantage outperformed traditional Medicare on clinical quality measures before and during the COVID-19 pandemic; mid-pandemic, however, traditional Medicare narrowed the gap on some in-person screenings.
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Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors More Effective vs Bevacizumab in Nonsquamous NSCLC
August 6th 2025Bevacizumab combined with chemotherapy was not as effective in advanced driver gene-negative nonsquamous non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) compared with immune checkpoint inhibitors plus chemotherapy.
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