Online decision support gives plans an edge

Specialty drugs are increasingly entering general medicine. Experts at Asembia’s AXS Summit say the trend will put a premium on leveraging artificial intelligence, technology and cross-functional expertise to create more personalized, efficient patient support services.

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.

Integrated delivery networks may be crucial to meeting the challenges posed by the complexities of specialty pharmacy.

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.

In a conversation with Managed Healthcare Executive, 10XBeta CEO Marcel Botha warned that proposed Medicaid cuts, combined with federal budget reductions under the DOGE initiative, could exacerbate the rural healthcare crisis—threatening efforts to bring mobile, community-driven innovations to underserved areas.

Kaminski and his colleagues were pioneers in applying high-throughput, genome-scale transcript profiling to advanced lung disease.