Managed Care Cast

Shortly before the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its score for the Senate healthcare bill, Patricia Salber, MD, MBA, of The Doctor Weighs In, and Nathan Bays, managing director at Cain Brothers, a healthcare investment bank, and policy advisor to The Health Management Academy, discussed how the Senate bill stands up to the House bill and speculation about how the CBO might score the bill.

Earlier this year, Veena Shankaran, MD, MS, associate professor at the University of Washington, had a winning case study for the PAN Foundation's annual PAN Challenge. The case study outlined an education program created to improve patient financial literacy and help connect patients to funding organizations.

Richard A. Bankowitz, MD, MBA, FACP, executive vice president for clinical affairs at America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) always had an affinity for data and early on in his career had an interest in using a data-driven approach to improve quality in healthcare. Throughout his career he has been dedicated to looking at safe and effective care and delivering affordable care.

Medicare Part A is an automatic entitlement that older Americans start receiving when they begin receiving their Social Security check, but the other parts of Medicare can be more difficult to enroll in. Mandi Bishop, CEO of Aloha Knows, interviewed 2 intelligent individuals who went through a 5-month process to get a mistake fixed for enrollment in Medicare Part B.

During this year's Patient Access Network Foundation Challenge, research submitted by Kai Yeung, PharmD, PhD, of the Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, was chosen as the paper winner. The main topic of the challenge this year had been Sustainable Strategies for Providing Access to Critical Medications.


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