Panel Recommends Small Bump in 2025 Medicare Physician Pay
The influential Medicare Payment Advisory Commission also will urge Congress to establish a safety-net add-on payment for services provided to people with low incomes. (Source: Medscape Transplantation Podcast)
Source: Medscape Transplantation Podcast - January 12, 2024 Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: Medscape 210869 Source Type: podcasts

Medicare ’s Historic Prescription Drug Price Negotiations
JAMA Senior Editor Kristin Walter, MD, MS, and Lawrence O. Gostin, JD, JAMA Legal and Global Health Correspondent and Faculty Director of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University, discuss the Inflation Reduction Act, which for the first time allows the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to negotiate prescription drug prices with drug manufacturers. Related Content: Medicare’s Historic Prescription Drug Price Negotiations (Source: JAMA Author Interviews)
Source: JAMA Author Interviews - November 7, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts

JAMA Internal Medicine : Examining Opportunities to Increase Savings from Medicare Price Negotiations
Interview with Michelle M. Mello, JD, PhD, Marissa B. Reitsma, BS, and Stacie B. Dusetzina, PhD, authors of Examining Opportunities to Increase Savings From Medicare Price Negotiations. Hosted by Robert Steinbrook, MD. Related Content: Examining Opportunities to Increase Savings From Medicare Price Negotiations (Source: JAMA Specialty Journals Author Interviews)
Source: JAMA Specialty Journals Author Interviews - April 17, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: The JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts

Diabetes Core Update – January 2023
Diabetes Core Update is a monthly podcast that presents and discusses the latest clinically relevant articles from the American Diabetes Association’s four science and medical journals – Diabetes, Diabetes Care, Clinical Diabetes, and Diabetes Spectrum. Each episode is approximately 20 minutes long and presents 5-6 recently published articles from ADA journals. Intended for practicing physicians and health care professionals, Diabetes Core Update discusses how the latest research and information published in journals of the American Diabetes Association are relevant to clinical practice and can be applied in a treatmen...
Source: Diabetes Core Update - December 28, 2022 Category: Endocrinology Authors: American Diabetes Association Source Type: podcasts

Endometrial Receptivity Testing to Guide Embryo Transfer During In Vitro Fertilization, Acute Myocardial Infarction Outcomes in Medicare, Review of Bacterial Meningitis, and more
Editor’s Summary by Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS, Editor in Chief of JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association, for the December 6, 2022, issue. Related Content: Audio Highlights (Source: JAMA: This Week's Audio Commentary)
Source: JAMA: This Week's Audio Commentary - December 6, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts

Spinal Cord Stimulation for Chronic Back Pain, Prescription Drug Spending in Medicare, USPSTF Recommendation on Screening for Depression and Suicide Risk in Children and Adolescents, and more
Editor’s Summary by Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS, Editor in Chief of JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association, for the October 18, 2022 issue. (Source: JAMA: This Week's Audio Commentary)
Source: JAMA: This Week's Audio Commentary - October 18, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts

Prescription Drug Cost Provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act
President Biden has signed into law the Inflation Reduction Act containing important provisions related to prescription drug costs. JAMA Health Forum Editor John Z. Ayanian, MD, MPP, and Deputy Editor Melinda B. Buntin, PhD, discuss the effects of these provisions on patients with Aaron S. Kesselheim, MD, JD, MPH, of Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Related Content: New Reforms to Prescription Drug Pricing in the US Estimating Rebates and Other Discounts Received by Medicare Part D Estimation of the Share of Net Expenditures on Insulin Captured by US Manufacturers, Wholesalers, Pharmacy Benefit Ma...
Source: JAMA Author Interviews - August 19, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts

Leading Medicare: Q & A With Medicare Director Meena Seshamani
As the largest public insurance program in the US, Medicare has an outsize influence in how many people in the US access and receive health care. Recently appointed Director of Center for Medicare Meena Seshamani, MD, PhD, joins JAMA Associate Editor Karen Joynt Maddox, MD, for a discussion of equitable, patient-centered approaches to health care delivery, and how her own experiences as a physician have illuminated how she leads the program. Related Content: Center for Medicare Director Envisions Holistic Approach to Health Care Leading Medicare: Q&A With Medicare Director Meena Seshamani Health System Factors Related to O...
Source: JAMA Author Interviews - March 16, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts

Dexamethasone Dose in Adults With Severe COVID-19, Mental Stress-Induced Myocardial Ischemia and Cardiovascular Events, Medicare Outcomes From the Oncology Care Model, and more
Editor's Summary by Mary McDermott, MD, Deputy Editor of JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association, for the November 9, 2021 issue. (Source: JAMA: This Week's Audio Commentary)
Source: JAMA: This Week's Audio Commentary - November 9, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts

Diabetes Core Update – August 2021
Diabetes Core Update is a monthly podcast that presents and discusses the latest clinically relevant articles from the American Diabetes Association’s four science and medical journals – Diabetes, Diabetes Care, Clinical Diabetes, and Diabetes Spectrum. Each episode is approximately 20 minutes long and presents 5-6 recently published articles from ADA journals. Intended for practicing physicians and health care professionals, Diabetes Core Update discusses how the latest research and information published in journals of the American Diabetes Association are relevant to clinical practice and can be applied in a treatmen...
Source: Diabetes Core Update - July 28, 2021 Category: Endocrinology Authors: American Diabetes Association Source Type: podcasts

Health Care Reform in the Biden Era
President Biden has released a health care plan that proposes reducing the age of eligibility for Medicare to 60 years and introducing a public option. Larry Levitt, MPP, Executive Vice President for Health Policy at the Kaiser Family Foundation, JAMA Associate Editor Karen Joynt Maddox, MD, MPH, Co-Director of the Center for Health Economics and Policy (CHEP) at @Washington University School of Medicine, and Lawrence O. Gostin, JD, from the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University discuss prospects for health care reform under the new administration. Recorded January 21, 2021. Relate...
Source: JAMA Author Interviews - January 25, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts

JAMA Internal Medicine : Trends in Noninvasive and Invasive Mechanical Ventilation Among Medicare Beneficiaries at the End of Life
Interview with Donald R. Sullivan, MD, MA, MCR, author of Trends in Noninvasive and Invasive Mechanical Ventilation Among Medicare Beneficiaries at the End of Life, and Anand S. Iyer, MD, MSPH, author of Noninvasive Ventilation in Seriously Ill Older Adults at the End of Life—The Evidence Remains Elusive (Source: JAMA Specialty Journals Author Interviews)
Source: JAMA Specialty Journals Author Interviews - October 19, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: The JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts

Diabetes Core Update – September 2020
Diabetes Core Update is a monthly podcast that presents and discusses the latest clinically relevant articles from the American Diabetes Association’s four science and medical journals – Diabetes, Diabetes Care, Clinical Diabetes, and Diabetes Spectrum. Each episode is approximately 20 minutes long and presents 5-6 recently published articles from ADA journals. Intended for practicing physicians and health care professionals, Diabetes Core Update discusses how the latest research and information published in journals of the American Diabetes Association are relevant to clinical practice and can be applied in a treatmen...
Source: Diabetes Core Update - September 1, 2020 Category: Endocrinology Authors: American Diabetes Association Source Type: podcasts

JAMA Otolaryngology –Head & Neck Surgery : Gender Differences in Clinical Productivity and Medicare Payments Among Otolaryngologists in 2017
Interview with Regan W Bergmark, MD, author of Assessment of Gender Differences in Clinical Productivity and Medicare Payments Among Otolaryngologists in 2017 (Source: JAMA Specialty Journals Author Interviews)
Source: JAMA Specialty Journals Author Interviews - July 30, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: The JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts

Potential Implications of Lowering the Medicare Eligibility Age to 60
Interview with Zirui Song, M.D., Ph.D., author of Potential Implications of Lowering the Medicare Eligibility Age to 60 (Source: JAMA Author Interviews)
Source: JAMA Author Interviews - May 29, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts