Podcast: This Week in Managed Care—Opioid Ruling and Settlement, and Other Health News

Lower rates of cardiac surgery were found in patients living with HIV along with an increased risk of adverse events.

To help celebrate and recognize National Minority Health Month, we are bringing you a special month-long podcast series with our Strategic Alliance Partner, UPMC Health Plan. Welcome to our final episode of this limited series and our conversation with Janine Jelks-Seale, MSPPM, director of health equity at UPMC Health Plan.

Asian men who have sex with men (MSM) who recently immigrated to Australia were found to have lower uptake of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP).

On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we're talking with the authors of a study published in the April 2024 issue of The American Journal of Managed Care® about their findings on the rates of low-value cancer care services throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

Kaiser Permanente was hit by a data breach in mid-April, impacting 13.4 million health plan members; GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) sued Pfizer and BioNTech for allegedly infringing on its messenger RNA technology patents in the companies’ COVID-19 vaccines; the CDC announced the first-known HIV cases transmitted via cosmetic injections.

Men who have sex with men (MSM) who are HIV-negative reported interest in an injectable pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) that lasted longer than the daily pill, regardless of cost or coverage.