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Off the Chart: A Business of Medicine Podcast
Off the Chart: A Business of Medicine Podcast features lively and informative conversations with health care experts, opinion leaders and practicing physicians about the challenges facing doctors and medical practices. New episodes release every Monday and Thursday morning. Brought to you by Medical Economics and Physicians Practice.
Off the Chart: A Business of Medicine Podcast Staff
Hosts: Keith Reynolds, Austin Littrell
Contributors: Chris Mazzolini, Todd Shryock, Richard Payerchin, Keith…
Episodes
Off the Chart: A Business of Medicine PodcastS1 Ep30: How scientific denialism undermines public health
Scott Rivkees, M.D., former head of the Florida Department of Public Health, describes how distrust of scientific expertise is undercutting state and local…
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S1 Ep29: It's not just money: why disparities in access to health care have been growing
Why do Black and Hispanic people find it harder to access medical care than whites? Income inequality is a significant reason, but a recent study finds that…
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S1 Ep28: Artificial Intelligence in medicine: what it means for primary care
How can the learning capabilities of artificial intelligence algorithms be used to complement primary care doctors' training and analytical skills to produce…
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S1 Ep26: How health care stakeholders are working together to improve care equity
Kamala Green, MA, social drivers of health program manager for National Government Services, discusses how her organization's work with social service agencies…
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S1 Ep25: How Humana is using a value-based program to transform health care for seniors
Vivek Garg, MD, chief medical officer and senior vice president for primary care with Humana, explains how the company has integrated based payments at its…
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S1 Ep23: How clinicians in two states are using health information exchanges to send and receive patient social health data
Jaime Bland, DNP, RN, CEO of CyncHealth, explains how doctors in Nebraska and Iowa now are able to exchange certain types of social health data on their…
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S1 Ep22: How PCPs can help patients lower risks of cardiovascular disease caused by air pollution
Sanjay Rajagopalan, M.D., the Herman K. Hellerstein, MD, chair in cardiovascular research at University Hospitals, Cleveland, discusses the evidence linking…
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S1 Ep32: Asset Protection and Financial Planning
Asset protection attorney and regular Physicians Practice contributor Ike Devji and Anthony Williams, an investment advisor representative and the founder and…
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S1 Ep34: Reducing burnout with medical scribes
Physicians Practice® spoke with Fernando Mendoza, MD, FAAP, FACEP, the founder and CEO of Scrivas, LLC, about the rising rates of reported burnout among…
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S1 Ep21: What is the Information Blocking Rule, and what does it mean for doctors and patients?
The Information Blocking Rule, which took effect in April 2021, was supposed to make it easier for Americans to get access to their health data. But many still…
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S1 Ep33: How to Reduce Surprise Billing in Your Practice
Physicians Practice® spoke with Kristina Hutson, a product line developer at Availity, about surprise billing events in independent healthcare practices and…
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S1 Ep31: Digital Marketing for Independent Practices
Physicians Practice® spoke with Rachael Sauceman, the head of strategic initiatives for Full Media—a digital marketing agency based in Chattanooga…
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S1 Ep30: The Virtual Waiting Room
Physicians Practice® spoke with Hari Prasad, CEO of Yosi Health, about how what practices need to know about setting up and making the most of their virtual…
Off the Chart: A Business of Medicine PodcastS1 Ep20: Vaccine mandates: The do's and don'ts for medical practices
How can medical practices reduce the chance of employees resisting, or successfully suing over, vaccine mandates? Health care attorney Michelle Greenberg…
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S1 Ep29: Cognitive Biases in Healthcare
Physicians Practice® spoke with Dr. Nada Elbuluk, practicing dermatologist and director of clinical impact at VisialDx, about how congestive biases present…
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S1 Ep28: Combating "Point Solution Fatigue"
Physicians Practice® spoke with Dr. Reena Pande, chief medical officer of AbleTo, about the current standards and challenges physicals are facing with…
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S1 Ep19: How one small-town physician is convincing his patients to get vaccinated for COVID-19
Shawn Purifoy, MD, a family doctor in rural Arkansas, says hearing the facts from trusted sources is key to dispelling patients' fears about vaccination.
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S1 Ep27: The Paperless Practice: Virtual care strategies
Physicians Practice® spoke with Michael Morgan, at the time the CEO of Updox and a contributor to Physicians Practice, to discuss the new technologies that you…
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S1 Ep26: Augmented Reality in Healthcare
Physicians Practice® spoke with Nick Cherukrui, the CEO and Founder of ThirdEye Gen, to discuss the potential new application of a visual technology to the…
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S1 Ep18: How a practice's culture influences physician burnout
Samuel Edwards, M.D., discusses his recent study in Health Affairs of why burnout levels differ among primary care practices and what practices can do to…
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S1 Ep25: Malpractice Claims and Artificial Intelligence
Physicians Practice® spoke with Victor Bornstein, CEO and founder of JustPoint, a new firm powered by artificial intelligence, about how they are analyzing…
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S1 Ep24: Certifying Your Communications Technology is Secure
Physicians Practice® spoke with Michael Parisi, Vice President of assurance strategy and Community Development at high trust Alliance, about how physicians and…
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S1 Ep23: Avoiding Claims Denials in Your Practice
Physicians Practice® spoke with Terry Blessing III, Senior Vice President of Client Development at VisiQuate, about how practices can work to reduce the…
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S1 Ep17: The new priorities for health IT
Micky Tripathi, the new National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, discusses his office's role in addressing the COVID-19 pandemic, improving EHR…
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S1 Ep22: Document Automation, Data Extraction for Independent Practices
Physicians Practice® spoke with John Harrison, CCO of Concord Technologies, about how documentation technologies can improve workflows in practices.
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S1 Ep21: Overcoming Value-Based Care Hesitations
Physicians Practice® spoke with Scott LaRoque, CEO of MPOWERHealth, about why some physicians may be hesitant to adopt value-based care models and how they can…
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S1 Ep20: Increasing health literacy levels in your patient populations
Physicians Practice® spoke with Chuck Lee, MD, about the complications of low patient health literacy levels and how physicians can improve these levels…
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S1 Ep16: Easing the prior authorization process
Tim Sullivan, Pharm.D., director of pharmacy market solutions for UnitedHealth Group, describes the EHR-embedded tool UnitedHealth has developed to ease the…
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S1 Ep19: Real Estate Transactions for Physician Practice Owners
Physicians Practice® spoke with Colin Carr, CEO of Carr Realty, to find out what physicians and practice owners should know about real estate trends in early…
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S1 Ep15: Can artificial intelligence reduce prescribing errors?
Dr. Gidi Stein, cofounder of the Israeli company MedAware, talks about the growing potential of artificial intelligence in medicine, and how it can be used to…
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S1 Ep18: Managing your practice's clinical capacity
Physicians Practice® spoke with Rich Miller, chief strategy officer of Qgenda, about practices' clinical capacity management during the pandemic and what you…
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S1 Ep17: Specialty telemedicine for independent practices
Physicians Practice® spoke with Dr. Jonathan Wisen, Founder and Chief Medical Officer of MediOrbis, about specialty telemedicine for the treatment of chronic…
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S1 Ep14: How PBMs drive up prescription drug prices
Health care attorney Jonathan Levitt explains pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) and how they have come to play a major role in drug pricing and availability.
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S1 Ep16: Combating burnout in physician practices
Physicians Practice® spoke with Dr. Wayne Jonas about the rise in reported burnout among physicians, especially during the pandemic, and how the industry can…
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S1 Ep15: Addressing patient suicide risks in your practice
Physicians Practice® spoke with Dr. Anisha Abraham, author of the recent book Raising Global Teens: A Practical Handbook for Parenting in the 21st Century…
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S1 Ep13: How the COVID pandemic can reduce health care inequity
Leon McDougle, MD, president of the National Medical Association, explains why Black Americans have been especially hard-hit by the COVID pandemic, and what…
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S1 Ep14: Preparing for end-of-life conversations with patients
Our coverage this month is focusing on patient engagement in communications. This week, Dr. Caroline DeFilippo, MD, MPH, FACP of CareMount Medical in New York…
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S1 Ep12: Telehealth's long-term impact on the business of medicine
If telehealth is here to stay, it could bring major financial and operational changes for medical practices. Ron Holder, COO of the Medical Group Management…
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S1 Ep13: Surprise Billing in Your Practice
Physician's Practice® spoke with Steve Avery, president and chief client officer at Abeo, about the practice of surprise billing—a practice that can present…
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S1 Ep12: Prior Authorizations with Paul Joiner
Physician's Practice spoke with Paul Joiner, chief operating officer of Availity, to discuss the implications of an American Medical Association survey and…
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S1 Ep11: Establishing Telehealth Services at Your Practice
Happy Holidays! Earlier this year, Physician's Practice® spoke with Elizabeth Woodcock, founder and Principal of Woodcock and Associates, about what physicians…
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S1 Ep11: The growing role of remote patient monitoring devices
Josh Claman, the CEO of Rimidi, discusses how remote monitoring devices can provide doctors with important patient health data while also creating a new…
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S1 Ep10: Developing and Maintaining Patient Communication Strategies
The pandemic has shed a light on the importance of communicating with patients. Physician's Practice speaks with Dr. Tashfeen Ekram about why now is the best…
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S1 Ep10: Finding financing for medical practices
Where can a practice go when it needs to borrow money to expand? How should it decide whether to buy or lease a new piece of equipment? What are the pros and…
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S1 Ep9: Coding Q&A 2: Problem management credits; A/P notes for AWVs
Coding expert Bill Dacey, principal of The Dacey Group, answers viewers' questions in this second installment of our Coding Q&A podcast series.
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S1 Ep8: Financial Clearance and Patient Advocacy
Physician’s Practice® presents our conversation Dan Dooley, vice president of physician services at R1—a leading provider of technology--enabled revenue cycle…
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S1 Ep9: What happens if the Affordable Care Act is overturned?—Part 2
On November 10 the Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case challenging the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act. What would it mean for health care…
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S1 Ep8: What happens if the Affordable Care Act is overturned?—part 1
On November 10 the Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case challenging the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act. What would it mean for health care…
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S1 Ep7: Coding Column Q&A 1: Mixing provider types, protocols, and patient behavior
Bill Dacey, president and CEO of The Dacey Group, pens the popular Coding Columns on Physician's Practice. In our first podcast version of this column, we…
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S1 Ep7: Will the COVID-19 pandemic change primary care?
Former CMS Administrator and FDA Commissioner Mark McClellan outlines his vision for primary care medicine in a post-COVID world.
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S1 Ep6: Practice Financing Part 2: Patient Lending Programs
In part 2 of our discussion with Banker’s Healthcare Group, hear from the President of Patient Lending, Keith Gruebele, on how these programs can benefit your…
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S1 Ep6: Addressing the challenge of the underinsured
According to a recent survey, more than 40% of working-age Americans, including many with employer-sponsored health insurance, can't afford the care they need…
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S1 Ep5: Practice Financing Part 1: Loans and Credit Cards
In this episode, hear about how physicians can establish new practices or finance existing ones with loans, as well as how and when to implement business cards…
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S1 Ep5: The physician employment outlook
Travis Singleton, a vice president with the physician recruitment firm Merritt Hawkins, discusses the job market for doctors and how it's being affected by the…
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S1 Ep4: Practice Administration Stability and Key Determinants of Success
Sachin Gupta, CEO of IKS Health, discusses how independent practices can remain administratively stable during the pandemic and after, as well as provides the…
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S1 Ep3: Cybersecurity Breach Reports During the Pandemic
In this episode, hear about the trends in CI Security's recent study on cybersecurity breaches reported to the Department of Health and Human Services…
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S1 Ep2: Regulatory Updates and New Claim Threats Stemming from the Pandemic
A brief overview of some of the key regulatory updates enacted during the pandemic, as well as new claim threats that physicians may face in the near future.
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S1 Ep4: Saving for retirement
Joel Greenwald, MD, president of Greenwald Wealth Management, discusses the options available to physicians looking to build a retirement nest egg.