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Podcast by Managed Care Cast

    Navigating Health Literacy, Social Determinants, and Discrimination in National Health Plans

    Navigating Health Literacy, Social Determinants, and Discrimination in National Health Plans

    On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we're talking with J. Nwando Olayiwola, MD, MPH; Candy Magaña, MPA; and Bereket Kindo, PhD, the lead author, research and project lead, and data scientist of a study published in the February 2024 issue of The American Journal of Managed Care.

    Their study, "Screening for Health Literacy, Social Determinants, and Discrimination in Health Plans," provides insight on the experiences of patients in a national health plan with 2 structural determinants of health and how those interact with social determinants of health and patient demographics.

    • 17 min
    Drs Raymond Thertulien, Joseph Mikhael on Racial Disparities in Multiple Myeloma Care Access

    Drs Raymond Thertulien, Joseph Mikhael on Racial Disparities in Multiple Myeloma Care Access

    In the wake of the 2023 American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting and Exposition, Raymond Thertulien, MD, PhD, of Novant Health, and Joseph Mikhael, MD, MEd, FRCPC, FACP, chief medical officer of the International Myeloma Foundation, discussed health equity research highlights from the meeting and drivers of racial disparities in multiple myeloma outcomes.

    • 28 min
    Editors of AJMC® Wrap Up the Year and Look to 2024

    Editors of AJMC® Wrap Up the Year and Look to 2024

    The editors in chief of The American Journal of Managed Care® discuss the managed care developments of 2023 and anticipate trends on the horizon.

    • 22 min
    Updates on Adagrasib in CRC and the Importance of Genomic Testing With Dr Jun Gong

    Updates on Adagrasib in CRC and the Importance of Genomic Testing With Dr Jun Gong

    At the end of 2022, adagrasib received its first FDA approval for the treatment of adults with KRAS G12C-mutated locally advanced or metastatic non–small cell lung cancer. Research is ongoing into adagrasib, a KRAS G12C inhibitor, for other tumors.

    In today’s episode, we're joined by Jun Gong, MD, associate professor of medicine and the medical director of colorectal cancer in the Division of Medical Oncology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. During this interview, he discusses the mechanism of adagrasib, what other diseases it is being studied in, the latest data on adagrasib in colorectal cancer, and the importance of conducting genomic testing.

    • 11 min
    Oncology Onward: A Conversation With Penn Medicine's Dr Justin Bekelman

    Oncology Onward: A Conversation With Penn Medicine's Dr Justin Bekelman

    Justin Bekelman, MD, director of the Penn Center for Cancer Care Innovation, sat with our hosts Emeline Aviki, MD, MBA, and Stephen Schleicher, MD, MBA, for our final episode of 2023 to discuss the importance of collaboration between academic medicine and community oncology and testing innovative cancer care delivery in these settings.

    • 28 min
    Insights on Primary Care Initiatives at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina

    Insights on Primary Care Initiatives at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina

    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.

    • 20 min

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