The Gist Healthcare Podcast

Gist Healthcare co-founders Chas Roades and Dr. Lisa Bielamowicz talk about how COVID-19 is accelerating consolidation, payer-provider integration and digital health innovation. They’ll also share their thoughts on how demand for healthcare is likely to change in the wake of the pandemic. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The government is making more changes to the hospital data reporting system. Pharmacists are now able to vaccinate kids. And some healthcare workers still having trouble getting masks and other personal protective gear.  Are you or your organization having trouble getting masks, face shields, or other PPE? We’d like to hear from you. Leave Gist Healthcare Daily a voicemail about your experience at 202-810-2843.   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Supreme Court will hear the case challenging the Affordable Care Act one week after the November election. The World Health Organization says the pandemic is in a new stage primarily driven by young adults. And some people are reporting being severely ill with COVID-19 for several months. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Democratic and Republican governors join together to get COVID tests. Post office changes were causing delays in prescription home deliveries. And employers are expecting healthcare costs to rise next year - driven partially by virtual care growth. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In part two of our conversation with Travis Messina, CEO of hospital-at-home company Contessa, he says the biggest challenge to scale is a lack of reimbursement. Messina is confident traditional Medicare is close to paying health systems for treating patients with the model.   Read more of Gist Healthcare's insight into the hospital-at-home model. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Travis Messina, CEO of hospital-at-home company Contessa, talks about the growing popularity of the model, the challenges of building a program, and the culture shift it requires. He compares the hospital-at-home model’s potential to that of early ambulatory surgery centers, which performed only a handful of procedures until Medicare expanded coverage and reimbursement.    Read more of Gist Healthcare's insight into the hospital-at-home model. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Russia approves a COVID-19 vaccine before finishing clinical trials. Daily coronavirus deaths climb following outbreaks in the Sun Belt state. And telemedicine visits may have plateaued. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Norfolk, VA-based Sentara Healthcare and Greensboro, NC-based Cone Health announced plans to merge. And two news organizations are tracking healthcare workers dying from COVID-19 and finding some troubling trends. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Researchers found some commonly worn masks are actually counterproductive. Joint replacements were some of the most profitable procedures for hospitals - but how fast will they come back after COVID? And The details of Medicare's rural healthcare pilot program are out. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The lack of a coronavirus relief package leaves a lot of healthcare policies up in the air.  Companies are hiring healthcare experts to deal with COVID safety. And during the pandemic doctors found themselves asking where are all the premature babies?  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.