At the fall live meeting of The American Journal of Managed Care®'s ACO & Emerging Healthcare Delivery CoalitionTM, speakers discussed how to care for complex patients, and the latest in reimbursement.
At the fall live meeting of The American Journal of Managed Care®'s ACO & Emerging Healthcare Delivery CoalitionTM, speakers discussed how to care for complex patients, and the latest in reimbursement. The week before the Coalition met, CMS released the final rule for the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act, which was a huge topic of conversation. Among the speakers was CMS' Kate Goodrich, MD, who joined a panel discuss the particulars of the rule and how providers will be impacted.
Here we present key takeaways from the sessions and panels presented at the Coalition meeting in Philadelphia in the words of the presenters themselves.
The spring live meeting will be held May 4-5, 2017, in Scottsdale, Arizona. Registration is now open.
Personalized Care Key as Tirzepatide Use Expands Rapidly
April 15th 2025Using commercial insurance claims data and the US launch of tirzepatide as their dividing point, John Ostrominski, MD, Harvard Medical School, and his team studied trends in the use of both glucose-lowering and weight-lowering medications, comparing outcomes between adults with and without type 2 diabetes.
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Managed Care Reflections: A Q&A With Hoangmai H. Pham, MD, MPH
April 1st 2025To mark the 30th anniversary of The American Journal of Managed Care® (AJMC®), each issue in 2025 will include a special feature: reflections from a thought leader on what has changed—and what has not—over the past 3 decades and what’s next for managed care. The April issue features a conversation with Hoangmai H. Pham, MD, MPH, a member of AJMC’s editorial board and the president and CEO of the Institute for Exceptional Care (IEC).
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Navigating Sport-Related Neurospine Injuries, Surgery, and Managed Care
February 25th 2025On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we speak with Arthur L. Jenkins III, MD, FACS, CEO of Jenkins NeuroSpine, to explore the intersection of advanced surgical care for sport-related neurospine injuries and managed care systems.
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Bridging Care Gaps With a Systemwide Value-Based Care Strategy
March 29th 2025Mapping care management needs by defining patient populations and then stratifying them according to risk and their needs can help to spur the transformation of a siloed health care system into an integrated system that is able to better provide holistic, value-based care despite the many transitions that continue among hospital, primary, specialty, and community care environments.
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