Doctor Deals Podcast
1) Medicare Hammers Skin Substitute Rates in 2026
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...Show More
2) Crush Readmissions & Make Money with Cardiac Rehab - Epis. 40
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...Show More
3) Retinopathy of Prematurity: FMV Pediatric Ophthalmology Services - Epis. 39
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 ...Show More
4) Alaska: The Outlier State for Physician Services - Epis. 38
Alaska has fewer physician residents-in-training than any other U.S. state except Wyoming. Together with Alaska’s remote location, nine hundred miles from Washington State, these factors create one of...Show More
5) Fair Market Value for Interpretation of Molecular Diagnostic & Genomic Tests - Epis. 37
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...Show More
6) $17 Billion in Doctor Deals Done By Drug Distributors - Epis. #36
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...Show More
7) Local Market Provider Compensation Data - Epis. #35
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...Show More
8) Telemedicine Commercial Reimbursement Trends - Epis. #33
The 2025 commercial reimbursement rates for telemedicine are finally here. Today you’ll get a glimpse of commercial reimbursement trends for telemedicine during 2025. New commercial reimbursement rate...Show More
9) Announcement: 2025 Acuvance DataRise™ Provider Compensation Data
Nick Newsad shares customer feedback from DataRise PCD's first year and identifies three resulting enhancements to the subscription during 2025. The new Acuvance brand name is also discussed.
10) Scott Becker Discusses Becker's Healthcare
Scott Becker and Nick Newsad delve deeper into Scott's entrepreneurial journey as described in his new book The Entrepreneur's Edge. This episode covers Scott's views on marketing, content strategy at...Show More