Panelists ask whether cancer care will shift toward home-administered infusions as payers push for change. Other topics in this forward-looking session include new delivery tech and practice-led solutions.
|Podcasts|May 5, 2018
Podcast: This Week in Managed Care—Insurance Coverage Gains Reverse 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.
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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.
This week, the top managed care stories included a report that insurance coverage gains are reversing; a deal to lower the cost of Praluent for Express Scripts members; findings that synthetic opioids are playing a bigger role in overdose deaths.
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