Podcast: HEALTHCARE HEADLINES – Election Highlight

by Daniel M. Grauman, Managing Director & CEO
Healthcare Headlines Podcast

This special Election Episode  of Healthcare Headlines discusses potential healthcare policies under a Trump presidency and a Republican-controlled Congress. We explore the future of the Affordable Care Act, Medicare, Medicaid, healthcare consolidation, and policies on rural healthcare, drug pricing, immigration’s impact on healthcare access, and highlight speculative appointments, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as HHS […]

Podcast: HEALTHCARE HEADLINES Episode 5

by Daniel M. Grauman, Managing Director & CEO
Healthcare Headlines Podcast

In our 5th episode of Healthcare Headlines, Dan Grauman, Managing Director & CEO of Veralon, explores key trends in the healthcare sector. This episode covers innovative uses of artificial intelligence in virtual primary care, and virtual nursing. We discuss the recent passage of the Telehealth Modernization Act, which extends Medicare’ Hospital-at-home program, and examine Village […]

Podcast: HEALTHCARE HEADLINES Episode 4

by Daniel M. Grauman, Managing Director & CEO
Healthcare Headlines Podcast

In our 4th episode of Healthcare Headlines, Dan Grauman, Managing Director & CEO of Veralon, continues to dive into the dynamic healthcare landscape. This episode covers healthcare market trends in bankruptcies and financial performance as well as State legislation targeting private equity. We also focus on primary care delivery by insurance companies and corporate retailers. […]

Podcast: HEALTHCARE HEADLINES Episode 3

by Daniel M. Grauman, Managing Director & CEO
Healthcare Headlines Podcast

In our 3rd episode of Healthcare Headlines, Dan Grauman, Managing Director & CEO of Veralon, continues to dive into the dynamic healthcare landscape. This episode provides updates on a new court ruling that could have significant impacts on the healthcare industry, and discusses the ongoing saga of cybersecurity problems as well as issues impacting rural […]

Podcast: HEALTHCARE HEADLINES Episode 2

by Daniel M. Grauman, Managing Director & CEO
Healthcare Headlines Podcast

In our 2nd episode of Healthcare Headlines, Dan Grauman, Managing Director & CEO of Veralon, continues to dive into the dynamic healthcare landscape. This episode covers the latest updates on regulatory challenges in hospital mergers, and artificial intelligence advancements in clinical documentation, as we explore the forces driving change in the healthcare industry. We also […]

Podcast: HEALTHCARE HEADLINES Episode 1

by Daniel M. Grauman, Managing Director & CEO
Healthcare Headlines Podcast

Veralon is delighted to launch this short podcast where Daniel Grauman, Managing Director & CEO, reviews major healthcare headlines and news stories, and what you need to know. Welcome to this first episode, which will be followed by regular episodes every month. Stay tuned for Episode 2! Listen below, or click the icons to listen […]

AHLA Podcast: Considerations for Integrated Physician Enterprise Performance

by Rudd Kierstead, Director

Health systems are beginning to address the many issues that come with the physician enterprise. Rudd Kierstead, Director, Veralon, speaks with Victoria Sheridan, Counsel, Corporate & Regulatory Affairs, Atlantic Health System, about some of the motivating issues, key factors, and main goals related to integrating the physician enterprise. They also discuss issues related to governance […]

Are There Physician Compensation Gaps Between Academic and Community Physicians?
The Surgical Specialties (Part 2)

by Karin Chernoff Kaplan, Managing Director

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Part 1 of this blog revealed that the increased blending of academic medical center and non-academic providers in the same health systems has led to compensation increases in the academic setting that outpaced those in the non-academic setting, for non-surgical specialties. We found the size of the difference in compensation between academic and community non-surgical […]

“Why Can’t We Pay Locum Rates to Our Physicians?” 3 Things Leaders Should Know

by Richard Chasinoff, Director
and Kelvin Polanco,, Manager

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In Latin, locum tenens means “holding the place.”[1] The term was first used in medieval times to describe the use of clergy to temporarily staff Catholic churches when priests weren’t available. In healthcare, locum tenens emerged in the 1970s as a way to describe the use of temporary physicians in rural markets where local physicians […]