MHE Week in Review – Trump Victory, Improving Your 2026 MA Star Ratings and More

After a three-year negotiation, the FDA has dropped its objection to allowing patients to self-titrate dosing of smoked cannabis. But regulators want to see additional information about the device that will be used for inhalation.

Featured in this latest episode of Tuning In to the C-Suite podcast is Paul Fronstin, director of health benefits research at EBRI, who shed light on the evolving landscape of health benefits with editors of Managed Healthcare Executive.

In this latest episode of Tuning In to the C-Suite podcast, Briana Contreras, an editor with MHE had the pleasure of meeting Loren McCaghy, director of consulting, health and consumer engagement and product insight at Accenture, to discuss the organization's latest report on U.S. consumers switching healthcare providers and insurance payers.

Medicare fraud costs Americans about $60 billion each year and healthcare plans are stepping in spread awareness and stop criminals.

Mehmet Oz, M.D., is another unconventional pick by Trump and is perhaps another an indication that Trump intends to let his HHS secretary nominee, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., "go wild on health."