The Gist Healthcare Podcast

An alarming number of primary care doctors say they are planning to leave practice. States are expanding pharmacists' role in patient care. And despite new surprise billing protections, patients are still concerned about the bills according to a new Kaiser Family Foundation survey. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

President Biden presses Congress to authorize more COVID relief funding after receiving his second booster on live television. Physicians continue to leave HCA Healthcare-owned Mission Health in Western North Carolina. And amid medical supply shortages, people with chronic illnesses struggle to get equipment. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

UnitedHealth Group’s health services unit, Optum, announced plans to buy the home health, hospice, and long-term acute care hospital company LHC Group for $5.4B. The Food and Drug Administration expands authorization of fourth shots of the Pfizer and Moderna COVID vaccines for adults 50 and older. And rising supply and labor costs combined with people returning for delayed care are expected to increase healthcare spending this year. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A Tennessee nurse is convicted of negligent homicide after a fatal medication error. Cleveland Clinic’s new 184-bed London hospital will start seeing new patients as early as this week. And 16 drugmakers are now limiting discounts to safety-net hospitals in the 340B program. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Six large health systems recently announced the launch of Evolve Health Alliance, a new collaboration to address workforce challenges and share insights from their respective systems. In this episode, Matt Kurth, Deputy Chief People Officer at Northwell Health, one of the alliance’s founding members, will discuss how the partner systems plan to work together.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A new study builds on evidence of a link between covid infection and diabetes. States raise penalties for threats of violence against healthcare workers. And healthcare data breaches reached an all-time high in 2021. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Moderna plans to ask regulators to greenlight its COVID vaccine for kids six months to under six years old. Contributing to hospitals filling nursing vacancies, state nursing boards are slow to approve new licenses. And new sickle-cell gene therapies are showing promising results, the next struggle will be getting patients to accept them. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The criminal trial of a Tennessee nurse who committed a fatal medication error begins. Starting next month hospitals will no longer be reimbursed for caring for uninsured COVID-19 patients. And hospitals and states renew scrutiny on rising hospital prices. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The three largest credit companies are changing how they report medical debt. Fresenius, InterWell Health, and Cricket Health create a new kidney care company. And health officials expect COVID cases of the omicron sub-variant to start rising. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, we hear from Dr. Taki Michaelidis, Medical Director of the UMass Memorial Health Hospital at Home Program. The Worcester-based system has quickly scaled up its program, doubling capacity in just a few months.This episode was originally published in December 2021. hin Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.