Universal Coverage moves into spotlight

Since its approval in 2002, Humira has become the world’s top-selling drug—largely due to long-standing market exclusivity and rising prices in the U.S.

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.

More than 50 insurers have pledged to streamline and simplify the prior authorization process through six new commitments.

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.

Women primary care providers (PCPs) treating Medicare patients in a value-based care model achieved better patient outcomes and earned more per patient than male counterparts, despite receiving equal patient satisfaction ratings, highlighting a potential for value-based payment to help close the gender pay gap.

There has been no or some progress in most areas since a National Institute of Health consensus development project in 2020, according to a group of experts. But exception is important: Prevention of moderate or severe chronic graft-vs.-host disease.