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Scott Becker - 8 Healthcare News Stories We Are Watching Today 6-23-26 · Becker’s Healthcare Podcast

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  - This is Scott Becker with the Becker's Healthcare
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  - podcast.
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  - Today, we're gonna talk through eight of the
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  - stories that we're watching in health care currently
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  - that give you a sense of of what's
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  - going on in health care.
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  - The first story,
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  - is a story where a Montana hospital
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  - is trying to shift pediatric
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  - ICU care to telehealth,
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  - which is a constant evolution throughout health care
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  - as people trying
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  - to find ways to do workforce redesign
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  - and find cheaper or easier ways to deliver
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  - care
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  - or ways in which
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  - they're able to handle leveraging
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  - physicians and clinicians
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  - in a way that these can't even fill
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  - spots currently.
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  - This, of course, is drawing some clinician
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  - pushback
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  - as clinicians are scared that this may get
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  - in the way of clinician jobs and also
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  - impacts
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  - negative impacts,
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  - on essentially
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  - clinical care. But, again, this is a sign
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  - of the times if people move more things
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  - towards
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  - telehealth and other ways of doing things and
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  - workforce redesign, work will redesign,
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  - in that evolution.
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  - The second Sarah we're watching is a story
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  - that Jacob Emerson follows
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  - on 24
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  - plus health systems dropping Medicare Advantage plans.
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  - Again, thus far, Medicare Advantage has been just
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  - an unmitigated
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  - disaster in in reality.
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  - It costs more than traditional Medicare. It's killing
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  - hospitals and health systems and providers in just
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  - an absolute disaster. I know some people have
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  - a different opinion of that, but that's our
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  - perspective here. That's what's going on with Medicare
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  - Advantage. More and more systems dropping out of
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  - Medicare
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  - Advantage.
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  - Third, a story by Kristen Kuchno
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  - about nine recent hospital and health system CEO
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  - exits. We're starting to see more of their
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  - turnover in the CEO spot, and we're expecting
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  - to see more of that over the next
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  - couple of years.
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  - You know, it is is a certain generation
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  - of CEO start to age out, start to
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  - replace by a next generation.
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  - Fourth, a story about artificial intelligence agents going
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  - to off script,
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  - and and health systems trying to deal with
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  - this in real time and figure it in
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  - real time.
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  - Now, again,
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  - people need this movement towards a GenTech AI
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  - and trying to figure out the guardrails and
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  - where it works, where it doesn't work is
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  - a fascinating, fascinating situation.
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  - Fifth, a lot of debates currently about rural
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  - health care reform.
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  - One of the articles posted recently and one
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  - of the thoughts from one of the rural
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  - health care leaders is
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  - rip off the band aid and start over.
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  - I think in reality, there's not really an
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  - easy answer
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  - to rural health care reform,
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  - in in in part
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  - because at at the end of the day
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  - in terms of rural health care, there's, you
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  - know, just not enough supply and there's not
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  - enough demands in a lot of places or
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  - or you cannot match those things up very
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  - easily, particularly as more and more physicians, nurses,
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  - clinicians wanna move to the top 50 biggest
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  - metro areas in the country.
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  - The next story, GLP one findings, things to
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  - know by, journalist Ella Jeffries.
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  - And again, a a fascinating take on sort
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  - of what's going on with GLP ones.
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  - A lot of the benefits so far in
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  - in a in a lot of challenges too.
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  - The next story we're following, I think this
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  - is number seven.
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  - Luigi Mangione,
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  - the person who murdered the CEO of UnitedHealthcare,
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  - is gonna try and use the psychiatric defense
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  - in in
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  - killing,
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  - in at least the state case, a fascinating
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  - horrendous
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  - situation.
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  - Finally, one other thing we'll we'll we'll note,
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  - a couple different stories about high earners, low
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  - supply that we're watching, 27 specialties ranked by
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  - pay and shortages.
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  - We're also watching the Ebola case count rise,
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  - not yet horrible.
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  - And finally, discussion about Providence winding down their
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  - insurance business, which is again a sign of
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  - the times as more and more of the
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  - large health systems find that being in the
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  - insurance business is really, really challenging and hard
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  - to win at compared to the scale of
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  - the major major players that are out there.
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  - In any event, thank you for listening to
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  - the Becker's Healthcare podcast.
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  - Thank you so much. We appreciate your listenership.
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  - Thank you.