The Gist Healthcare Podcast

As CVS Health repositions itself to provide more primary care, the company announces plans to close 900 stores. About a third of healthcare workers aren’t vaccinated. And doctors have had enough with their peers spreading covid disinformation.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The former Sanford Health CEO left the system with a $49 million golden parachute. Lawmakers say the new surprise billing dispute resolution rule isn’t what they intended. And the partisan divide about vaccines seems to go beyond the coronavirus. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Austria introduces a lockdown for the unvaccinated. Dealing with hostile patients and feeling unsupported by employers are just a few of the factors driving doctors and nurses to leave healthcare. And a STAT News investigation looks into Ascension private equity operation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kaiser Permanente reached a deal with unions to avoid massive strikes. Medicare hasn’t even decided to cover an expensive new Alzheimer's drug yet, and it’s already driving premium increases. And finally, President Biden has chosen a nominee to lead the FDA.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This fall payers like UnitedHealthcare, Cigna, and Aetna all launched virtual first primary care plans this fall. In this March 2021 conversation, Gist Healthcare co-founders, Chas Roades and Lisa Bielamowicz discuss how insurers are integrating their new care offerings to capture more of consumers' healthcare spend. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. Farzad Mostashari, CEO and co-founder of Aledade, discusses how quality reporting for physicians has become time-intensive and no longer commensurate with incentives. He tells us the whole system is in need of “radical surgery”.    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the final episode of our series exploring investor acquisitions of physician practices, we’ll look at the hospital-based physician market, including emergency physicians, hospitalists, and anesthesiologists, which private equity firms started rolling up in the early 2000s.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Some have warned that the rapid growth of PE-backed practices is reminiscent of the rise and fall of physician practice management companies of the 1990s. In the second part of our series about the impact of private equity investment in physician practice on the healthcare market, we’ll hear from Peter Kindrachuk, a former PhyCor executive, on how today’s trend compares to what happened back then. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Private equity firms are fueling a physician practice buying frenzy that’s heated up over the last year, with just about half of practices now owned by hospitals or other corporate entities.  In the first part of a series about private equity's impact on the market, Anthony D’Eredita, founder and CEO of TrustWorks Collective, discusses how younger physicians and health systems are being outbid by deep-pocketed investors.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

British digital-first value-based care company Babylon went from being virtually unknown in the US, to managing the cost of care for more than 100,000 lives in a year. Babylon's Chief Business Officer Paul-Henri Ferrand discusses how the company is partnering with health plans, medical groups, and health systems to expand.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.