New Year, New Health Care Battles

Experts emphasize the need for enhanced clinical trial infrastructure in community oncology to ensure equitable access to innovative therapies for all patients.

On this episode of Managed Care Cast, Brady Post, PhD, lead author of a study published in the April 2025 issue of The American Journal of Managed Care®, challenges the claim that hospital-employed physicians serve a more complex patient mix.

Key trends and challenges are shaping the next era of advanced therapies, from FDA momentum to broader patient access.

Using 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.

Nipocalimab (Imaavy; Johnson & Johnson), an FcRn-blocking monoclonal antibody, was approved for patients 12 years and older with generalized myasthenia gravis based on data from the ongoing Vivacity-MG3 study.

Many studies have examined how rheumatoid arthritis therapy affects the risk of metabolic comorbidities.