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Podcast: This Week in Managed Care—COVID-19 Racial Disparities and Other Health News

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.

This week, the top managed care news included CMS proposing rules for value-based contracting in Medicaid; claims data highlighting racial disparities in COVID-19 effects; an interview with Anthony Fauci, MD, on the progress made against HIV.

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CMS Issues Rules to Promote Value-Based Contracting, Pay for High-Cost Therapies in Medicaid

Medicare Claims Data Further Highlight Pandemic's Toll on Racial Minorities

What Is Being Done to Assess the Disproportionate Effect of COVID-19 on Minority, Rural Communities?

Fauci: Countless Lives Have Been Saved, but an HIV Vaccine and Cure Remain Elusive

PwC Provides 3 Spending Scenarios to Address Implications of COVID-19 on the 2021 Medical Cost Trend

Infectious Diseases and Anemia in a Sample of Out-of-Treatment Drug Users

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