Not Enough Cancer Drugs, Too Many Price Controls

Researchers found that core oncology services were less likely to be available at hospitals serving racial and ethnic minority groups compared with other hospitals in the United States.

Robin Shah, CEO of Thyme Care, which he founded in 2020 with Bobby Green, MD, president and chief medical officer, joins hosts Emeline Aviki, MD, MBA, and Stephen Schleicher, MD, MBA, to discuss his evolution as an entrepreneur in oncology care innovation and his goal of positively changing how patients experience the cancer system.

After recent policy changes removing most medical debts from credit reports, Americans are seeing their credit scores increase, but experts warn of the need to monitor billing and collection practices for unintended consequences.

On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we speak with the senior author of a study published in the September 2023 issue of The American Journal of Managed Care® on the importance of adequate and effective lung cancer risk factor documentation to determine a patient's eligibility for screening.

If finalized, these proposals will generally take effect on January 1, 2025, unless otherwise noted.

The Biden administration plans to utilize the Defense Production Act to boost essential medicine manufacturing; a landmark case challenges Texas abortion laws; reports of the BA.2.86 variant of SARS-CoV-2 have nearly tripled in the United States.