|Podcasts|December 1, 2018

Podcast: This Week in Managed Care—CMS Drug Coverage Changes Draw Ire and Other Health News

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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, and you can now listen to it on our podcast, Managed Care Cast.

This week, the top managed care news included a CMS plan for changes in drug coverage that brought a wave of criticism; a government task force recommended more people at risk for HIV take pre-exposure prophylaxis, known as PrEP; the American College of Cardiology issued an Expert Consensus Pathway on treatment of patients with type 2 diabetes and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.

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CMS Aims at Drug Prices Through Part D, MA Step Therapy, Pharmacy Rebates

CMS Finalizes New Structure to Move Home Health to Value-Based Payment

USPSTF Recommends Clinicians Prescribe HIV PrEP to All High-Risk Patients

ACC Pathway Finds Empagliflozin "Preferred" SGLT2 Therapy for Patients With Type 2 Diabetes, ASCVD

American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting & Exposition

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