Podcast: This Week in Managed Care—Questioning the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program and Other Health News

May 26, 2019

Podcast

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 a study questioning the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program; FDA issuing a warning about do-it-yourself artificial pancreas systems; measles cases reach the highest level since 1994.

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Study Questions Penalizing, Incentivizing PCPs for Readmission Rates

FDA Issues Warning on Do-It-Yourself Artificial Pancreas

What We're Reading: Tobacco Age Legislation; Most Measles Cases Since 1994; Hidden Dangers of Heart Device

Adam Simmons on Patient Preferences When Taking Antipsychotic Medications

Alkermes' Novel Schizophrenia Drug Shows Less Weight Gain, Addressing Top Patient Complaint

American Psychiatric Association 2019 Annual Meeting

ISPOR 2019 Annual Meeting

Panelists Debate the Role of ICER: Useful Overseer of Prices, or Oppressor of Choice?

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