Podcast: This Week in Managed Care—Nobel Prize for Immunotherapy and Other Health News

Proposed Affordable Care Act (ACA) premium hikes threaten health care access, with potential increases of over 75% for enrollees.

This Managed Care Cast episode explores how high costs and inconsistent insurance coverage for incretin mimetics impact obesity management and patient care.

In this second part of his interview with The American Journal of Managed Care®, Sanjay Doddamani, MD, MBA, a former senior advisor to CMMI and founder and CEO of Guidehealth, continues a dialogue on the future of value-based care and the promise—and limits—of AI-enabled innovation, reflecting on challenges like rising Medicare costs and patients’ growing financial burdens.

Medical societies challenge HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr's COVID-19 vaccine rollbacks, and more news updates from the week.

A meta-analysis showed that control group outcomes in psilocybin trials for depression were significantly weaker than those in selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) and esketamine trials, suggesting that psilocybin’s large observed treatment effects may be inflated by methodological factors such as functional unblinding and expectancy bias.

A significant number of patients with cancer, caregivers, and health care professionals face significant disparities in legal issues, with the most common needs revolving around health insurance, finances, employment, and disability insurance.