Alaska: The Outlier State for Physician Services - Epis. 38

In this episode, Kevin Backer, Director of Business Development, at Emergency Care Partners talks with Nick about the No Surprises Act, the impact of corporate failures of national physician staffing ...

4 Mai 8min

Medicare is dropping the payment hammer on skin substitute reimbursement in 2026. This episode covers Medicare's new skin substitute payment changes, as well as the implications this has on commercial...

18 Des 20254min

Congestive heart failure is one of the highest-cost diseases driving hospital readmissions and healthcare costs in the U.S. A highly effective treatment for preventing hospital readmissions of heart f...

31 Okt 20259min

Premature birth interrupts the normal development of blood vessels in infants' eyes. If not diagnosed and treated in a timely manner, retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) can result in retinal detachment ...

23 Okt 20253min

Medical geneticists and molecular pathologists play a major role in the growing fields of genomic testing and molecular diagnostics. Reimbursement for professional interpretation of these tests has fa...

20 Sep 20256min

Cardinal, McKesson, and Cencora have been busy during the past two years. These three drug distributors have spent over $17 billion acquiring large specialty medical groups from private equity sellers...

27 Aug 20257min

National physician enterprises set compensation rates in dozens or even hundreds of different markets. Clearly physicians in Alaska and San Francisco should not be compensated "the same" as physicians...

27 Aug 20252min