Health plans, providers scramble for scarce flu vaccines

The healthcare provisions include Medicaid work requirements and a broadening of the exemption to Medicare drug price negotiation

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.

The investigational agent, zipalertinib, received the breakthrough designation from the FDA in January 2022

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. His guest this episode is John Baackes, the former CEO of L.A. Care Health Plan.

According to Regeneron, the drug is a bispecific antibody that binds to B-cell maturation antigen (BCMA) on cancerous plasma cells and CD3 on T cells, directing the immune system to attack and destroy multiple myeloma cells.

In a conversation with Managed Healthcare Executive, Michael Abrams, M.A., managing partner at Numerof & Associates, painted a picture of what’s at stake.