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Today, we bring you a podcast featuring insights from Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina. Sonny Goyal, chief strategy officer at Blue Cross NC, discusses some top priorities, as well as the insurer’s multiple investments in primary care and the workforce to improve value-based care.

Today we are bringing you a conversation between 3 experts on precision medicine in non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

Martin Socinski, MD, executive director of the AdventHealth Cancer Institute, spoke with Martin Dietrich, MD, PhD, medical oncologist of Florida Cancer Specialists and Research Institute, and Joshua Sabari, MD, medical oncologist with NYU Langone Health Perlmutter Cancer Center and assistant progessor in the Department of Medicine at NYU Grossman School of Medicine.

The topics of conversation for today’s podcast include how precision medicine in NSCLC for patients with driver mutations, current immunotherapies for patients lacking driver mutations, and more.

Today we are bringing you part 2 of a 2-part podcast series on opportunities for biosimilars, specifically adalimumab biosimilars, in dermatology, gastroenterology, and rheumatology.

The discussion was moderated by Ryan Haumschild, PharmD, director of Pharmacy Services at Emory Healthcare and Winship Cancer Institute. The topics of conversation for today’s podcast include implementation of biosimilars in patients with no history of reference biologic use, insights on switching patients from the reference to the biosimilar, auto-substitution, impact of biosimilar utilization on payers and pharmacy benefit managers, and more.

Today we are bringing you part 1 of a 2-part podcast series on opportunities for biosimilars, specifically adalimumab biosimilars, in dermatology, gastroenterology, and rheumatology.

The discussion was moderated by Ryan Haumschild, PharmD, director of Pharmacy Services at Emory Healthcare and Winship Cancer Institute. The topics of conversation for today’s podcast include the provider and payer considerations for transitioning patients to biosimliars, challenges associated with biosimilars, approaches to prescribing biosimilars over reference products, and more.

On this episode of Managed Care Cast, Emily Goldberg, MS, CGC, genetic counselor at JScreen, breaks down how genetic screening for breast cancer works and why it is so important to increase awareness and education around these screening tools available to patients who may be at risk for cancer.

Lucio Gordan, MD, president and managing physician of Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute, discusses recently updated clinical guidelines from the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) in multiple myeloma, which specifically discuss disease staging and risk stratification and advise clinicians on how to address 1q abnormalities.