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Podcast: This Week in Managed Care - New Direction for CMS Innovation Center, 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.

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 new direction for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation; a bipartisan group of governors spoke out against the latest effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act; and the World Health Organization warned that antibiotics currently being developed were not enough to fight antibiotic-resistant infections.

Read more about the stories mentioned in this podcast at the following links:

CMS Innovation Center Seeks New Direction to Encourage Competition, Flexibility

What We're Reading: Walgreens—Rite Aid Deal; Hepatitis Outbreak in LA; Governors on Cassidy-Graham

Antibiotic Development Pipeline Running Thin, WHO Warns

Shingles Vaccination Now Recommended at Age 50

US Psych Congress 2017

Dr Thomas Kosten Highlights Payer Oversight of Opioids

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