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Spotlighting Pandemic-Related Challenges, Data-Driven Solutions for Payers
On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we address how delays in routine care and other aspects of the pandemic are affecting payer organizations today, and how technology innovations like natural language processing can work to empower key initiatives in population health and beyond.
Amid uncertainty and diminished health care cost and utilization trends precipitated by the COVID-19 pandemic, payer organizations have been tasked with managing the health-related outcomes of member populations nationwide.
With growing challenges of member engagement, risk adjustment, and value-based care, technology and the availability of clinical data may be of utmost importance for payers to form a more comprehensive view of member health and address potentially unmet needs among members.
On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we speak with Cheryl Mason, Director, Content and Informatics, Health Language, Wolters Kluwer, who discusses how delays in routine care and other aspects of the pandemic are affecting payer organizations today, and how technology innovations like natural language processing can work to empower key initiatives in population health and beyond.
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Unlocking Access: Exploring Mental Health Care Among Medicaid Managed Care Enrollees
January 23rd 2025On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we speak with the author of a study published in the January 2025 issue of The American Journal of Managed Care® to examine the association between quantitative network adequacy standards and mental health care access among adult Medicaid enrollees.
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FDA Expands Semaglutide Use for CV, Kidney Risks in T2D, CKD
January 28th 2025The latest semaglutide (Ozempic; Novo Nordisk) approval is set to tackle a major need for patients with both type 2 diabetes (T2D) and chronic kidney disease (CKD), addressing their cardiovascular (CV) and kidney disease risks.
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