Conversations with Perry and Friends: Saar Mahna, J.D., MBA
July 7th 2025Perry Cohen, Pharm.D., a longtime member of the Managed Healthcare Executive editorial advisory board, is host of the "Conversations with Perry and Friends" podcast. In this episode, Cohen speaks with Saar Mahna, J.D., MBA, CEO and founder of Banjo Health, an artificial intelligence company focused on prior authorization.
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Integrating People-Centered HIV Care With Primary Healthcare | IAS 2025
July 16th 2025Integrating people-centered HIV care with primary health care is essential to improving access, equity and health outcomes, but doing so successfully requires coordinated policies, digital transformation, community engagement, and sustained funding, according to experts at IAS 2025.
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Conversations With Perry and Friends: Paul Fronstin, Ph.D.
May 9th 2025Perry Cohen, Pharm.D., a longtime member of the Managed Healthcare Executive editorial advisory board, is host of the Conversations with Perry and Friends podcast. In this episode, his guest is Paul Fronstin, Ph.D., director of health benefits research at the Employee Benefit Research Institute.
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CMS Launches Value-Based Gene Therapy Program for Sickle Cell Disease
July 16th 2025CMS is brokering outcomes-based agreements on behalf of Medicaid programs. Thirty-three states, along with Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico, have signed on, collectively covering about 84% of Medicaid enrollees with sickle cell disease.
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Medicaid Cuts “Deeply Un-American,” Union Leader Says
July 16th 2025In this interview, Matthew Yarnell, president of SEIU Healthcare, Pennsylvania, a healthcare union, condemns Trump’s $1 trillion Medicaid cut, saying that more than a quarter of a million Pennsylvanians will lose their healthcare coverage as a result.
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