10 Things You Need To Know About ICD-10

The Biden administration is looking at a policy change that would enable more older Americans to get oral and injectable medications.

In this episode of the "Meet the Board" podcast series, Briana Contreras, Managed Healthcare Executive editor, speaks with Ateev Mehrotra, a member of the MHE editorial advisory board and a professor of healthcare policy and medicine at Harvard Medical School. Mehtrotra is also a hospitalist at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. In the discussion, Contreras gets to know Mehrotra more on a personal level and picks his brain on some of his research interests including telehealth, alternative payment models and price transparency.

Even though the Inflation Reduction Act will require plans to justify formulary placement of negotiated drugs, payers have more of an incentive to steer patients to lower-cost alternatives.

This week on Tuning Into The C-Suite Briana Contreras spoke with Dr. Scott Hayworth, president and CEO of New York-based CareMount Medical. In this interview, the two discussed the importance of patients staying in contact with their doctors for the sake of reducing public health risks and to discuss ongoing care options with them.

Researchers found a sharp rise in virtual visits in skilled nursing facilities in 2020, but most of those gains didn’t last.

Researchers found that some patients had a higher no-show rate for virtual appointments than those with office visits.