Managed Care Cast

PCOC Recap: Seven Leaders Define Patient-Centered Oncology Care by Managed Care Cast

Crystal Clear: What Availity's Founding Story Teaches About Price Transparency by Managed Care Cast

Host Carol Skenes, chief of staff at Turquoise, previews Crystal Clear With Carol Skenes, a new podcast about making health care more transparent and easier to navigate. She explains why opaque payment processes leave patients without answers on cost. She also outlines what a simpler, waste-free transaction could look like and who is working toward it. Follow for season 1.

Patients Open to Lower-Cost Weight Maintenance to Expand GLP-1 Access by Managed Care Cast

In part 2 of this conversation recorded at Patient-Centered Oncology Care 2026 in Nashville, Melody Chang, vice president of pharmacy operations at American Oncology Network (AON), talks with 2 AON colleagues. Susan Sabo Wagner, vice president of clinical innovation, explains why financial toxicity should be managed as a clinical toxicity. She also covers how electronic patient-reported outcomes can support patients on CAR T-cell and bispecific therapies between visits, and how AON is rolling out behavioral health partnerships, distress screening, and area deprivation index data across its practices. Alti Rahman, chief strategy and innovation officer, describes how AON is now supplying quality measures to payers instead of receiving them, and previews a closing panel on building trust among payers, providers, and patients through 2030. Both share what stood out most at the meeting, from patient access to keeping pace with fast-moving therapies.