Accountable plans improve performance

Studies show in mice show that targeting the metabolic pathways could inhibit the growth of melanoma and combining this strategy with other treatments could enhance the therapeutic effect.

Perry 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.

A new study found that commercial insurers pay hospitals more than twice what Medicare does, with prices varying depending on local market factors such as hospital concentration and insurer competition.

Perry 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.

Patients using steroids, especially at high-doses, before taking immune checkpoint inhibitors for non–small cell lung cancer were more likely to have brain metastases.

But 25 low- and middle-income countries have responded with plans for increased allocation of HIV funds, says the UNAIDS executive director. "...countries, governments and civil society are not lying down and waiting to die..."