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PodnosisHealthcare’s mixed Q4, plus insights from the Lake Nona Impact ForumHealthcare earnings season is offering a mixed picture of the industry. In the latest episode of "Podnosis," Fierce Healthcare's Dave Muoio and Paige Minemyer break down the highlights from fourth-quarter earnings, where providers signaled growth while payers warned of financial headwinds amid a shifting policy landscape. The episode also features an interview from the Lake Nona Impact Forum, where Fierce Healthcare’s Anastassia Gliadkovskaya spoke with Jeff DiLullo, head of Philips North America, about how health systems are thinking about AI, technology and the push to bring care closer to home. To learn mor...
2026-03-0445 min
Agent Survival Guide PodcastPrescription Drug Pricing: MFN & GENEROUSThe Friday Five for November 14, 2025:
iPhone Pocket Brings Back… Pockets.
CMS Rural Health Transformation Program
Government Shutdown Update
Most-Favored Nation Drug Pricing
CMS GENEROUS Model
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Phone Pocket Brings Back… Pockets.
Articles of Interest – More Pockets
Hart, Jordan. “Apple and Issey Miyake Design $230 Iphone Pocket Inspire...
2025-11-1419 min
PodnosisQ3 earnings recap: Plenty of uncertainty ahead for payers, providersWith the longest government shutdown in U.S. history as a backdrop, for-profit providers and payers detailed the continued regulatory uncertainty and pressures on their businesses in the third quarter. In this episode of "Podnosis," Editor Dave Muoio and Senior Writer Paige Minemyer break down the key trends for the third quarter, including how insurers shed light on strategic priorities, the impact of the ACA subsidy conversation and why providers saw a surprise revenue windfall. To learn more about the topics in this episode: Insurers slammed by medical costs, regulatory pressures yet again in Q3...
2025-11-1237 min
PodnosisUncertainty clouds finances for payers and providers in Q2The first half of 2025 was decidedly mixed for many publicly traded healthcare companies, and they’re facing murky waters in the back half of the year amid policy and cost upheaval. In this episode of "Podnosis," Fierce Healthcare Associate Editor Dave Muoio and Senior Writer Paige Minemyer break down the topline takeaways from another round of corporate earnings calls, including a look at executive commentary on the “big, beautiful” policy environment. To learn more about the topics in this episode: Elevated Medicare Advantage, ACA marketplace costs sting insurers in mixed Q2 HCA Healthcare raises 2025 guidance...
2025-08-1328 min
Agent Survival Guide Podcast2026 Midwest D-SNP Market OpportunityThe Friday Five for July 18, 2025:
Update on Regulation Banning Medical Debt from Credit Reporting
Google Announces NotebookLM Featured Notebooks
This week in Apple Rumors
Threads Usage Up, Meta Testing Facebook Login
2026 Midwest D-SNP Market Opportunity
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Update on Regulation Banning Medical Debt from Credit Reporting:
Wise, Alana. “Americans’ Medical Debt Can Stay in Credit Reports, Judge Rules. What Does That Mean?” NPR.Org, NPR, 15...
2025-07-1818 min
Agent Survival Guide Podcast5 Things From the 2025 Budget Reconciliation BillIn this week’s Friday Five, Sarah gives her first impressions on what agents need to know about the 2025 Budget Reconciliation Bill. Learn more about what’s changed for Medicare, Medicaid, ACA, and more!
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2025 ACA Marketplace Integrity & Affordability Final Rule Takeaways
2026 Medicare Advantage and Part D Certification Info
Key Takeaways From the 2025 Marke...
2025-07-1117 min
StarTalk RadioCuring All Disease with AI with Max JaderbergCan AI help us model biology down to the molecular level? Neil deGrasse Tyson, Chuck Nice, and Gary O’Reilly learn about Nobel-prize-winning Alphafold, the protein folding problem, and how solving it could end disease with AI researcher, Max Jaderberg. NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can listen to this entire episode commercial-free here: https://startalkmedia.com/show/curing-all-disease-with-ai-with-max-jaderberg/Thanks to our Patrons Riley r, pesketti, Lindsay Vanlerberg, Andreas, Silvia Valentine, Brazen Rigsby, Marc, Lyda Swanston, Kevin Henry, Roberto Reyes, Cadexn, Cassandra Shanklin, Stan Adamson, Will Slade, Zach VanderGraaff, Tom Spalango, Laticia Edmonds, jason scott, Jigar Gada, Robert Jen...
2025-05-3049 min
PodnosisProviders, payers brace for regulatory uncertaintyThe healthcare industry is preparing for significant regulatory change in the latter half of 2025, and much of the conversation on the first quarter earnings calls was about setting the tone for those complications. Tariffs, Medicaid cuts and the likely end of the enhanced ACA subsidies all have major implications for payers and providers, and industry behemoth UnitedHealth Group is headlining those trends with an unusual miss and the departure of its CEO, Andrew Witty. This week on "Podnosis," Associate Editor Dave Muoio and Senior Writer Paige Minemyer sit down to take a look back at the first...
2025-05-1431 min
Agent Survival Guide PodcastProjections on Nursing Home Demand in 2030
The Friday Five for February 21, 2025:
Golden Birthday Cake Oreos Return
Amazon Kindle Update
RFK Jr. Confirmed as HHS Secretary
ACA Navigator Program Funding Cut
Nursing Home Demand Projections
Golden Birthday Cake Oreos Return:
Fink, Bailey. “Oreo Is Releasing 2 New Flavors—and Making One Permanent.” Allrecipes.Com, Allrecipes, 18 Feb. 2025, www.allrecipes.com/oreo-new-cookies-february-2025-11680020.
Bivins, Kenn. “Oreo Just Brought Back a ‘GOAT’ Flavor That Has Fans ‘Beyond Excited.’” Parade.Com, Parade, 19 Feb. 2025, parade.com/food/oreo-golden-birthday-cake-returns-2025.
Robledo, Anthony. “Oreo Reveals New Flavors: Double Chocolate Cakesters and Golden Birthday Cake.” USA Today, Gannett Satellite...
2025-02-2111 min
This Week in PharmacyThe Trump Card, Public Relations, and RxTeach | TWIRxThe Trump Card, Public Relations, and RxTeach | TWIRx
On this episode of TWIRx, what's the Trump Card going to do to Pharmacy Care?
How can a new strategy in Public Relations improve pharmacy?
FEATURED INTERVIEW:
Teaching innovators, RxTeach and the opportunity for Pharmacists
TWIRx News:
What Trump's first day orders mean for healthcare: Ditched drug models, pauses on rules and hiring By Fierce Healthcare Staff, Dave Muoio, Noah Tong, Emma Beavins, Anastassia Gliadkovskaya Jan 21, 2025 1:00pm
LINK: https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/regulatory/what-trumps-first-day-orders-mean-healthcare-ditched-drug-models-pauses-rules-and-hiring
More Bad News for Pharmacy Benefit Managers – AMAC Action Weekly Advocacy Update Posted on...
2025-01-2555 min
Pharmacy Podcast NetworkThe Trump Card, Public Relations, and RxTeach | TWIRxThe Trump Card, Public Relations, and RxTeach | TWIRx
On this episode of TWIRx, what's the Trump Card going to do to Pharmacy Care?
How can a new strategy in Public Relations improve pharmacy?
FEATURED INTERVIEW:
Teaching innovators, RxTeach and the opportunity for Pharmacists
TWIRx News:
What Trump's first day orders mean for healthcare: Ditched drug models, pauses on rules and hiring By Fierce Healthcare Staff, Dave Muoio, Noah Tong, Emma Beavins, Anastassia Gliadkovskaya Jan 21, 2025 1:00pm
LINK: https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/regulatory/what-trumps-first-day-orders-mean-healthcare-ditched-drug-models-pauses-rules-and-hiring
More Bad News for Pharmacy Benefit Managers – AMAC Action Weekly Advocacy Update Posted on...
2025-01-2555 min
Jearlyn SteeleHighlight: The Anatomy of a Failed MergerAfter months of delay, the proposed merger between South Dakota-based Sanford Health and Minnesota-based Fairview Health will not happen. This week’s announcement comes with a lot of questions about the future of the two organizations. Fierce Healthcare staff writer Dave Muoio has followed the progress of this story, and he discusses some of the impacts from the failed deal.
2023-07-3111 min
Jearlyn SteeleSchool Prep; A Crumbling ProposalElementary school Spanish teacher Allyson Wolff provides some tips for parents trying to get their children ready for the upcoming school year. Fierce Healthcare staff writer Dave Muoio explains what went wrong with the now-failed merger between Sanford Health and Fairview Health.
2023-07-3134 min
The Cybersecurity Readiness Podcast SeriesUseful Technology Should Be Attack AgnosticIn this episode, Patricia Muoio, Ph.D., Partner at SineWave Ventures and Former Chief of Trusted Systems Research Group, National Security Agency, sheds light on the cybersecurity technology landscape and emphasizes the need to develop technologies that are attack agnostic. Some of the questions driving the discussion include: a) what progress has been made in the development and use of cybersecurity technologies? b) What does it mean to be attack agnostic? c) how near or far are we from taking the burden off people trying to protect themselves from different cyber attacks? and d) the ideal government and industry...
2023-01-0443 min
Working PeopleDr. Frances GillWe all know that, even before the horrific, world-changing event of COVID-19, society would fall apart without hospital workers and medical staff. But as we also know, like so many other fields and sectors of work, the medical field is a very stratified one. Even though we as patients may not see it, many of the folks who make hospitals and medical facilities run are overworked, understaffed, under-protected, and paid way less than we're led to believe. This was made painfully clear last month when frontline physicians at LA county hospitals voted overwhelmingly in favor of striking over unfair...
2022-06-231h 17
Working People35,000 Kaiser Permanente Workers Are Set to Strike (w/ Hannah Winchester & Nick Eng)35,000 members of the Alliance of Health Care Unions, a coalition of 21 local unions representing over 52,000 workers at the healthcare giant Kaiser Permanente in states around the country, have set a strike date. Unless the company addresses the serious issues that workers have raised at the bargaining table, Kaiser workers will walk off the job on Nov. 15, and thousands more may join in what could become one of the largest strikes ever in the healthcare sector. The core issues that led to the potential strike not only involve adequate compensation for union workers, but also the dire concerns about healthcare...
2021-11-1059 min
HIMSSCastIs the FDA taking digital health regulation in the right direction? — with Bradley Merrill ThompsonWith its recent launch of the Digital Health Center for Excellence, the FDA has shown a new spotlight on its ongoing work of changing how the regulation of digital health and digital therapeutics works, to better match the realities of modern technology. But is the organization taking the right steps for the right reasons? Or is it heading into dangerous territory for developers and their end users — the patients?Host Jonah Comstock and MobiHealthNews Associate Editor Dave Muoio discuss this pivotal question with Bradley Merrill Thompson, a Member of the Firm at Epstein Becker Green, founder of th...
2020-10-0936 minHIMSSCastApple's new sensor, digital therapeutics, and digital health diversityIt's a bit of a pot pourri this week as the MobiHealthNews team shares some of what they've heard at a variety of (virtual, of course) industry events. First host Jonah Comstock recaps what Apple announced at its product launch event last week, then Associate Editors Dave Muoio and Mallory Hackett discuss the Digital Therapeutics East event. Finally Managing Editor Laura Lovett and Jonah talk about the Rock Health Summit.And if you haven't gotten enough of events yet, we've got one of our own coming up next week. VIsit https://www.himss.org/event-accelerate-health to learn...
2020-09-2535 minHIMSSCastHow the USPS funding battle may affect healthcareHost Jonah Comstock convenes a panel of HIMSS Media editors — HITN Senior Editor Kat Jercich, MobiHealthNews Associate Editor Dave Muoio and HFN Associate Editor Jeff Lagasse — to discuss recent delivery slowdowns at the post office and how they have and haven't affected healthcare stakeholders, including startups and patients. The team also looks into the broader trend of politicization of traditionally apolitical government agencies and how that could affect public faith in COVID-19 treatments or vaccines.More about this episode:USPS service delays are hitting some mail-order pharmacies and telehealth platforms harder than othersMail...
2020-08-2826 minHIMSSCastThe Teladongo EpisodeThe MobiHealthNews team — host Jonah Comstock, Managing Editor Laura Lovett and Associate Editor Dave Muoio — sit down to unpack the major shakeup that hit the digital health markets this week when telemedicine giant Teladoc announced its plan to merge with chronic condition management success story Livongo. We talk details, motivations, and implications of this digital health mega-company in the making.More about this episode:Teladoc Health absorbs chronic care company Livongo in $18.5B mergerUnitedHealth Group offering Dexcom G6 CGMs, Fitbit trackers, virtual coaching to 230,000 Type 2 membersEuropean Commission expa...
2020-08-0722 minHIMSSCastFall of a Pioneer: Unpacking Proteus's bankruptcy filing with Brian DolanMobiHealthNews founding editor Brian Dolan, now founder and lead writer at Exits and Outcomes, joins the host Jonah Comstock, Managing Editor Laura Lovett, and Associate Editor Dave Muoio for a bit of a post-mortem on Proteus Digital Health, the sensor-enabled pill company that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last week.More related to this episode:'Digital pill' maker Proteus Digital Health files for bankruptcyProteus parts ways with Otsuka as it pivots toward oncology, infectious disease treatment adherenceProteus furloughed majority of employees last month after collapse of $100M funding round
2020-06-2629 minHIMSSCastThe Empathy Machine: COVID-19 and Therapeutic VR, part 2 with Dr. Brennan SpiegelFollowing up on last week's episode, host Jonah Comstock and MobiHealthNews Associate Editor Dave Muoio chat with Dr. Brennan Spiegel, Director of Health Services Research at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. As well as picking up on the thread of COVID-19's effect on the burgeoning field of virtual medicine, Speigel also talks about some of his own experiences with therapeutic VR, lays out his vision for the technology's future, and gives a preview of his forthcoming book on the subject.More related to this episode: COVID-19 and therapeutic VR adoption, part 1
2020-06-1926 minHIMSSCastCOVID-19 and therapeutic VR adoption, part 1 with Dr. Robert LouisVR researcher and advocate Dr. Robert Louis gives HIMSS Media insight on the current state of VR in healthcare, and how the virus has impacted his hospital's rollout of the technology.Digital health spectators have long eyed therapeutic virtual reality's progression from an interesting research concept to an evidence-backed treatment for pain, phobias and other conditions. But with COVID-19 throwing a wrench into healthcare's status quo, will the virtual technology be seen as a key resource, or as a novelty to be sidelined until things can return to normal?In this episode, VR researcher and...
2020-06-1232 minHIMSSCastCOVID-19 and Mental and Behavioral HealthTelehealth of all stripes has exploded since COVID-19, but one particular subset deserves further examination: telebehavioral health, an area in which the crisis has upended the norms of supply as well as demand as the crisis take's a toll on the world's collective mental health.In this episode, host Jonah Comstock, Managing Editors Laura Lovett and Susan Morse and Associate Editor Dave Muoio discuss some recent trends and developments in this space.Articles mentioned in this episode:Heal kicks off telepsychology service for California residentsOptum reportedly finalizing $470M purchase...
2020-05-1418 minHIMSSCastTracking, Tracing, Privacy and COVID-19Even before today's big announcement from Apple and Google, it was clear that phone-based contact tracking was going to be an important weapon in the war against COVID-19. But might that weapon be a double-edged sword? In today's HIMSSCast, host Jonah Comstock is joined by the MobiHealthNews team — Managing Editor Laura Lovett and Associate Editor Dave Muoio, to discuss the various companies, researchers, and governments working on COVID-19 contact tracking and population mapping, and what privacy concerns that may entail.Articles mentioned in this podcast:Apple, Google have teamed up to build system-level COVID-19 co...
2020-04-1025 minHIMSSCastFDA grapples with home COVID-19 testing, moves forward with PreCert programIt's been turbulent times for the FDA. On the one hand, the U.S. regulator has found itself carefully unravelling its guidances to bolster COVID-19 testing and treatment – sometimes leading to confusion for companies searching for new ways to combat the global epidemic. On the other, the agency continues to push forward with broader initiatives to remap its processes so that novel software treatments won't be gummed up in regulatory red tape.Each of these challenges was on full display over the past couple weeks. In today's HIMSSCast, host Jonah Comstock and MobiHealthNews Associate Editor Dave Muoio re...
2020-03-3027 minHIMSSCastWhat providers, payers and tech developers should know about sweeping new patient access rulesHealthcare IT News Editor Mike Miliard, Healthcare Finance News Senior Editor Susan Morse, and MobiHealthNews Associate Editor Dave Muoio delve into ONC and CMS's new rules, how people are reacting, and what might happen next. Articles mentioned in this podcast: HHS publishes final regs on info blocking, interoperabilityONC officials describe requirements of new API, information blocking rulesWith info blocking rules, concerns for patient privacy, small practicesHHS finalizes rules requiring EHR access and an end to information blockingInteroperability rules risk patient privacy, say insurers, ho...
2020-03-1029 min
DJ Lindsay's podcastLes plus beaux duos!30 beautiful duets by famous artists, selected and mixed by Dj Lindsay.
Playlist:
1. Hélène Ségara and Laura Pausini - On n’oublie jamais rien, on vit avec, 2. Zucchero and Sting - Muoio per te, 3. Sugababes and Sting - Shape of my heart, 4. Roberto Alagna and Jean Reno - I love Paris, 5. Eros Ramazzotti Feat. Tina Turner - Cose della vita, 6. Sam and Dave - Hold on I'm coming, 7. Calogero and Passi - Face à la mer, 8. 50 Cent Feat. Eminem and Adam Levine - My life, 9. Yuri Buenaventura and Faudel - Salsa Raï, 10. Andrea Bocelli and Mario Reyes - Jurame, 11. Michael...
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