The Gist Healthcare Podcast

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.

In his new book The Riches of This Land, New York Times Economics Reporter Jim Tankersley talks about how minorities have been disadvantaged by American economic policy and are being harder hit by the COVID-19 induced recession. Tankersley says women and men of color are key to rebuilding the country's middle class.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The president is now ordering federal agencies to buy certain medicines and supplies from American factories. A study sparked a social media firestorm raising questions about professionalism in healthcare. And experts warn global shutdowns have put millions of lives at risk due to other infectious diseases. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.