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Podcast: This Week in Managed Care—Life Expectancy 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, and you can now listen to it on our podcast, Managed Care Cast.
This week, the top managed care news included CMS pushing for bundled payments in radiation oncology; reports detailing deficiencies in hospice care; a study finding widening disparities in life expectancy among white Americans.
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CMS Proposes Bundled Payments for Radiation Oncology
OIG Reports Find Deficiencies in Hospice Care and Resulting Harms to Patients
Study Reveals Declining Life Expectancy Among White Americans That Defies Easy Answers
Systolic, Diastolic BP Both Predict Cardiovascular Events, Kaiser Permanente Study Finds
Number of Manufacturers and Generic Drug Pricing From 2005 to 2017
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Inside the Center's MDD Value Model and Its Use of Dynamic Pricing
May 13th 2025Larragem Raines, MS, of the Center for Innovation & Value Research, discusses the organization's major depressive disorder (MDD) open-source value model, dynamic pricing, and the future role of artificial intelligence in care.
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New Research Challenges Assumptions About Hospital-Physician Integration, Medicare Patient Mix
April 22nd 2025On this episode of Managed Care Cast, Brady Post, PhD, lead author of a study published in the April 2025 issue of The American Journal of Managed Care®, challenges the claim that hospital-employed physicians serve a more complex patient mix.
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