Managed Care Cast

The federal government has been releasing a number of policies and proposals that will affect care delivery and are aimed at rising costs of care and prescription drugs. Ted Okon, executive director of the Community Oncology Alliance (COA), sat down with Managed Care Cast to discuss a number of policies affecting COA’s members, including proposals around chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapies, pharmacy benefit managers, and the Oncology Care Model. Read more about the stories in this podcast: CMS Proposes That Patients Be Enrolled in Studies to Get Coverage for CAR T-Cell Therapy: https://www.ajmc.com/newsroom/cms-proposes-that-patients-be-enrolled-in-studies-to-get-coverage-for-car-tcell-therapy Ted Okon on Policy Priorities for COA in 2019: https://www.ajmc.com/conferences/coapayersummit2018/ted-okon-on-policy-priorities-for-coa-in-2019 COA's OCM 2.0: Moving Toward a Universal Payment Model: https://www.ajmc.com/conferences/coapayersummit2018/coas-ocm-20-moving-toward-a-universal-payment-model More Th