Payment Reform Models

The top 5 podcasts for 2024 cover Medicare Advantage prior authorization, health equity, global immunization challenges, trauma-informed care, and health literacy.

On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we're talking with the author of a study published in the October 2024 issue of The American Journal of Managed Care® that explored prior authorization decisions in cancer care by race and ethnicity for commercially insured patients.

The health care provisions include key reforms targeting pharmacy benefit managers, extensions of Medicare telehealth flexibilities, and measures aimed at combating the opioid crisis and preparing for future pandemics.

On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we speak with Jeffery A. Goad, PharmD, MPH, 2024-2025 president of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases, on the recent report from the World Health Organization and UNICEF on public immunization rates, with national and global health implications.

A recent Federal Order from the US Department of Agriculture aims to track, prevent, and address contaminated dairy products while public health risk remains low.

Since its founding in 2012, the National Association of ACOs has evolved from a group of 30 to 477 accountable care organization members covering 9.2 million beneficiary lives.