Administration backs liability reform to curb spending

Community health workers can improve health outcomes and lower costs. So why haven’t they been fully incorporated into the U.S. healthcare system?

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.

Patients with PTSD in the clinical trials of midomafetamine were able to guess whether they received treatment or placebo. Regulators and advisory committee members said this could have impacted efficacy results. FDA’s decision is expected by Aug. 11, 2024.

mRESVIA will be available for the 2024/2025 RSV season as a pre-filled, ready to use syringe.

Zolbetuximab is first-in-class monoclonal antibody. The FDA has assigned an action date of Nov. 9, 2024.

FDA officials have asked for additional analyses on the efficacy of Dupixent in the two pivotal trials. The revised target action date is Sept. 27, 2024.