Managed Healthcare Executive June 12, 2024
CDC Director Mandy K. Cohen spabout the agency modernizing data and working with payers and other parts of the healthcare system at the AHIP meeting in Las Vegas.
Despite its broad mandate to keep people healthy and respond to shared health threats, public health has something of a poor relationship with the rest of the $4.5-trillion-a-year U.S. healthcare, its providers and payers.
Mandy K. Cohen, M.D., M.P.H., director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) wants to change that relationship and hopes to persuade health insurers that it is in their interest to do so.
“If public health is strong and it is doing the work it is meant to do, your job gets easier,” Cohen said Tuesday...