Small business market can employ big returns for MCOs

Audits and AI might help deal with the problem of woefully inaccurate provider directories supplied by insurers to their members.

Managed Healthcare Executive's Managing Editor Peter Wehrwein, and Editor Briana Contreras, had a discussion in July with Mostafa Kamal, president and CEO of Prime Therapeutics, an organization in which Kamal acquired this position that same month.

By offering pre-conception, pregnancy, postpartum, and newborn interventions, as well as primary, wellness, and preventive care, this mobile health center is set to close the access gaps that have long affected the well-being of women and children in Texas.

Briana Contreras, an editor of Managed Healthcare Executive, had the pleasure of catching up with MHE Editorial Advisory Board Member, Ateev Mehrotra, MD, MPH, who is a professor of healthcare policy at Harvard Medical School and an Associate Professor of Medicine and Hospitalist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

Swoop, a New York-based company, has launched an algorithm that may help people with multiple sclerosis take medications as prescribed.

There are nine grant awards of $1 million each for up to 5 years — totaling to overall $45 million in grants — that would mainly support underserved, rural, vulnerable, and minority populations that are disproportionately impacted by the effects of Long COVID