Managed Care Cast

Jeff Patton, MD, CEO and board member of OneOncology and executive chairman of Tennessee Oncology, joins hosts Emeline Aviki, MB, MBA, of NYU Langone Perlmutter Cancer Center, and Stephen Schleicher, MD, MBA, ofTennessee Oncology, for our third episode.

Patton, also chairman of the Community Oncology Alliance and a board-certified hematologist and oncologist, highlights of the origins of OneOncology that it was created to protect community oncology, to give other states and communities the opportunity to stay independent in light of large hospital systems, if they wanted to. He also discusses the importance of community clinical trial accrual and of keeping oncological services within the community and not handing them over to large hospital systems, therby driving up the cost of care.

On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we speak with the lead researcher from a study published in the May 2023 issue of The American Journal of Managed Care® about the impact of low-income subsidies on the uptake and equitable use of expensive orally administered antimyeloma therapy.

Shelley Jazowski, PhD, MPH, is a postdoctoral fellow at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and lead researcher on “Association Between Low-Income Subsidies and Inequities in Orally Administered Antimyeloma Therapy Use."

The authors compared the initiation of and adherence to orally administered antimyeloma therapy between enrollees receiving and not receiving the Medicare Part D low-income subsidy, and examined the association between these subsidies and racial and ethnic barriers to the use of these drugs.

On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we speak with the lead researcher from a study published in the June 2023 issue of The American Journal of Managed Care® about how employers and their employees are utilizing direct-to-consumer (DTC) telehealth to reduce the cost of care.

Krisda Chaiyachati, MD, MPH, is a general internist, primary care physician, and adjunct assistant professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Health System, and the lead author of the study, “Economics of a Health System’s Direct-to-Consumer Telemedicine for Its Employees."

On this episode of Managed Care Cast, Kathy Leyden, vice president of community engagement at Capital District Physicians' Health Plan (CDPHP), discusses key initiatives and areas of focus to address hunger and food insecurity issues across Upstate New York.

On this episode of Oncology Onward, Dr. Debra Patt, executive vice president of policy and strategic initiatives and director of public policy at Texas Oncology joins cohosts Dr Emeline Aviki and Dr Stephen Schleicher for a jam-packed discussion that touches on topics that have never been more timely in the oncology space: the economics behind the current drug shortage, the relationship between pharmacy benefits managers and 340B discounts, and the Inflation Reduction Act.

On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we speak with the lead researcher from a study published in the July 2023 issue of The American Journal of Managed Care® on whether social determinants of health is a predictor for identifying high-cost utilizers among those with commercial health insurance.

On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we’re talking with 2 individuals who were essential in the creation and implementation of the Health Access Initiative for Recovery (Our HAIR), launched by Community Care Behavioral Health Organization of Pittsburgh, PA.

On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we feature several leaders in diversity, equity, and inclusion advancing health equity in their respective organization’s policy and practice initiatives.

In part 2 of this 2-part series on health equity in the treatment of psoriasis, Ryan Haumschild, PharmD, and Bryan Buckley, DrPH, discuss how providers can address disparities in psoriasis care, specifically with race, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds in mind.

On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we speak with Bruce W. Sherman, MD, of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, about a recent study on wage-level disparities effecting the utilization of mental health resources, for which he was lead investigator; the study articles appear in the April issue of The American Journal of Managed Care®.