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The Improving Patient Access Podcast
Health Plans, PBMs Must Disclose Their Accumulators, Maximizer Programs for New Transparency Rules
December 22, 2020
MHE Senior Editor talks with John “Jack” S. Linehan, a lawyer at Epstein Becker Green, for this week's episode of MHE Talks: Improving Patient Access series. The two discuss copay accumulators and maximizers, as well as how states have moved to prohibit accumulators and maximizers as the federal government takes a hands-off approach.
MHE Talks: Improving Patient Access with Kevin Lewis of Community Health Options
December 08, 2020
MHE's Peter Wehrwein speaks with Kevin Lewis, president and CEO of Community Health Options in Maine. The two discussed how Community Health Options is improving patient access through telehealth and more services on Tuning Into The C-Suite's newest series MHE Talks: Improving Patient Access.
Second Episode of New Podcast, MHE Talks: Improving Patient Access
November 23, 2020
Leanne Berge, CEO of Community Health Plan of Washington in Seattle, talks to Managed Healthcare Executive about patient access challenges, COVID-19, telehealth, and health care disparities.
The First Episode of New Podcast, MHE Talks: Improving Patient Access
November 13, 2020
John Henderson, president and CEO of the Texas Organization of Rural and Community Hospitals, spoke with Senior Editor Peter Wehrwein about COVID-19, telehealth, emergency care, and Medicaid expansion.
MHE Launches New Improving Patient Access Podcast
November 12, 2020
Starting this week, the editors of Managed Healthcare Executive® are launching a new, twice-a-month podcast about how those barriers can removed, lowered, or worked around so all patients get the healthcare they need.
CMS Launching Efforts To Transform Ambulance Services
September 24, 2020
CMS is taking prior authorization for frequent, non-emergency ambulance transportation nationwide and launching a model that pay ambulance services for taking patients to nonhospital facilities.
Healthcare goes retail
September 22, 2020
CVS Health, Walgreens and Walmart are pushing ahead with ambitious plans for in-store clinics and doctor’s offices.
Camden Coalition Finds New Ways to Care for High Utilizers
August 25, 2020
Results of an RCT of the coalition’s ‘hot spotting’ approach resulted in some reevaluation.
How Lyft is Improving Access to Care for Millions of US Medicaid Recipients
August 20, 2020
Almost four million people miss their medical appointments every year due to a lack of reliable transportation. To address this challenge, Lyft has been working with healthcare organizations since 2016 to get patients in need to and from their medical appointments.
NEJM Study: Caps on Out-of-Pocket Costs for Specialty Drugs Reduce Patient Spend by 32%
August 06, 2020
Research model shows that caps on out-of-pocket costs don't result in higher health plan spending.