In this week's episode of Tuning Into the C-Suite, MHE's Briana Contreras speaks with Adam Sabloff, CEO of Virtual Health, about the current transformation of value-based care and what he thinks the future may look like for value-based care after COVID-19 and the presidential election.
In this week’s episode of Tuning Into the C-Suite podcast, MHE's Briana Contreras spoke with Sebastian Seiguer, CEO of emocha Mobile Health. The two talked about the key health challenges schools are facing as some are reopening across the country, how telehealth services like emocha are successfully using telehealth to open schools in a Return to Learn program, and paths forward for our nation’s largest school districts.
This week on Tuning Into the C-Suite , Managed Healthcare Executive's Senior Editor, Peter Wehrwein, spoke with Georgetown's Sabrina Corlette, JD. The two discussed the possible motivations behind health insurers announcing premium credits and discounts in recent weeks and months after their profits (net income, for not-for-profits) swelled due to the drop-off in routine healthcare utilization.
In this week’s episode of Tuning Into the C-Suite, Briana Contreras of MHE chatted with CEO of Interim HealthCare, Jennifer Sheets. She and Jennifer discussed how COVID-19 has impacted the demand for home care, how hospitals can partner with the operation and how new pursuits in healthcare will affect home care in the future.
This week on Tuning Into The C-Suite Briana Contreras spoke with Dr. Scott Hayworth, president and CEO of New York-based CareMount Medical. In this interview, the two discussed the importance of patients staying in contact with their doctors for the sake of reducing public health risks and to discuss ongoing care options with them. This action supports Dr. Hayworth’s concern that over the next couple of years the country could see a spike in preventable disease and death because of missed or del...
In this week's episode Briana Contreras spoke with Suzet McKinney, CEO of the Illinois Medical District and an Adjunct Instructor at Harvard University's T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The two discussed the role of social determinants when promoting health and health equity and most importantly why and how racism is a public health issue.
This week on Tuning Into The C-Suite, Managed Healthcare Executive Senior Editor Peter Wehrwein speaks with Assistant Professor of Public Health at New York Medical College, Adam Block. The two discuss Block's recent article published in MHE, "Profits of Publicly Traded Health Plans Surge Amid Requests for Higher Rates" and more.
Briana Contreras, associate editor of Managed Healthcare Executive speaks with Dan Knecht, Vice President of Clinical Health at CVS Health in this week's episode. During the discussion, they spoke about telehealth, patient access to it, CVS minute clinics and most importantly, CVS Health’s recent study, Path to Better Health. This annual study includes responses from consumers and providers who were asked for their thoughts on the state of healthcare.
MHE's Briana Contreras spoke with CEO of Scripta, Eric Levin. The two discussed the current state of the pharmacy benefit market and how the Scripta organization has been assisting its clients and their prescriptions prior to the COVID-19 pandemic and during.
In this week's episode of Tuning Into the C-Suite, Briana Contreras of MHE speaks with Ben Kanter, MD, board-certified pulmonologist and chief medical information officer for Vocera Communications, not only about how critical it is for hospitals to have sufficient supplies of non-contaminated PPE for the safety of patients and healthcare workers, but also to discuss solutions of technology, collaboration and more that address the challenges of delivering patient care while wearing PPE.
Senior Editor Peter Wehrwein has a conversation with Jack Linehan, a lawyer for Epstein Becker Green, about coupons and accumulators. Jack is an expert on drug pricing and few people know as much about coupons and accumulators as he does. Peter and Jack go over some of the basics, who is advantaged and disadvantaged, and then dive into some the details on CMS’s zigzag on regulating accumulators and how recent changes to Medicaid best price rules will affect coupons and accumulators.
In this episode, MHE's Briana Contreras chatted with David Calabrese, R.Ph, MHP, who is senior vice president and chief pharmacy officer of pharmacy care services company, OptumRx. David is also a member of Managed Healthcare Executives’ Editorial Advisory Board. During the discussion, he shared the OptumRx Quarter 2 Drug Pipeline Insights Report of 2020. Some of the information shared includes the three notable drugs currently being reviewed or those that have been recently approved by the FDA....
John D'Amore, president and co-founder for Diameter Health, speaks with Managed Healthcare Executive Senior Editor, Peter Wehrwein, about fast healthcare interoperability resources standards , or FHIR, as they apply to insurers. There are new CMS FHIR regulations for Medicare Advantage and Medicaid managed care plans that go into effect in July 2021. Private insurers are expected to follow suit.
John Kalamara, business intelligence analytics manager of DataGen, chats with Managed Healthcare Executive's Briana Contreras, about the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or CMS’, recent announcement of the changes they’ve made for participants in their value-based programs, specifically those in bundled-care programs like BPCI Advanced, whose episodes were affected by COVID-19. For more information on these changes, visit the link here ....
Association of Diabetes Care and Education Specialists, chief science and practice officer, Leslie Kolb chats with MHE Associate Editor Briana Contreras in MHE's newest podcast, Tuning into the C-Suite, about diabetes management and how it's affected by the use of telehealth, especially during the current and trying times of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Kathi Mooney, Ph.D., RN, FAAN, interim senior director of population sciences at the Huntsman Cancer Institute in Salt Lake City, discusses hospital-at-home programs and how they are common in countries with single-payer systems and include patients with conditions ranging from cellulitis to heart failure. The benefits include the familiarity of home surroundings, avoidance of hospital-acquired infection, and less de-conditioning from being in a hospital bed.
Managed Healthcare Executive recently had a wide-ranging conversation with de Brantes about COVID-19, the healthcare sector and how the precipitous drops in utilization and provider revenue may affect the future of bundled payment and other alternative payment models.
Minnesota health insurance executive shares his belief that healthcare utilization peaks and valleys because of COVID-19, with MHE Senior Editor Peter Wehrwein.
Dr. Vivek Garg, CareMore and Aspire chief medical officer, discusses palliative home-based care and its effects of COVID-19 with Managed Healthcare Executive Assistant Editor, Briana Contreras.
