Podcasts in Industry News

  • Hospitals using Lean and Six Sigma
    January 13, 2010
    James Levett, MD, is chairman of the American Society for Quality's healthcare division and chief medical officer for The Physicians' Clinic of Iowa. In this interview with Healthcare Finance News Editor Richard Pizzi, Levett discusses how U.S. hospitals are beginning to embrace Lean and Six Sigma business management strategies to reduce costs and improve productivity.

  • Hospitals and Local Banks: Building Relationships
    September 10, 2009
    In this podcast, Healthcare Finance News editor Richard Pizzi speaks with Peter Bastone, president and CEO of Mission Hospital Regional Medical Center in MIssion Viejo, Calif. Bastone recently joined the Board of Directors at Orange County-based Sunwest Bank.

  • An Interdisciplinary Approach to Healthcare Issues
    August 12, 2009
    In this podcast, Healthcare Finance News editor Richard Pizzi speaks with Marc Hodosh, President of TEDMED, about the upcoming TEDMED2009 conference.

  • Improving Charge Capture in the Emergency Department
    July 20, 2009
    In this interview with Healthcare Finance News editor Richard Pizzi, Steve Lanning, director of emergency services at Conway Medical Center in Conway, S.C., describes his facility's implementation of an emergency department information system.

  • Health Insurance Reform: The Massachusetts Model
    July 06, 2009
    Massachusetts enacted landmark healthcare legislation in 2006 that was designed to ensure all residents in the state had health insurance. In this interview with Healthcare Finance News Editor Richard Pizzi, Erica Drazen and Jason Fortin of CSC discuss whether components of the Massachusetts plan could serve as models for a national reform efforts.

  • Protecting yourself from Medicare payment recoupment actions
    May 14, 2009
    In this interview with Healthcare Finance News editor Richard Pizzi, healthcare attorneys Dwight Scott and Chris DeMeo discuss why healthcare providers need to be especially aware of Medicare compliance issues, particularly payment recoupment actions.

  • The Stimulus Package and Medicaid in California
    April 27, 2009
    Chris Perrone is senior program officer at the California HealthCare Foundation. In this interview with Healthcare Finance News editor Richard Pizzi, Perrone discusses the impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, commonly referred to as "the stimulus package," on the state of California’s Medicaid program, Medi-Cal.

  • Newsmaker Interview: Sean Walker
    March 26, 2009
    Sean Walker is a director in the healthcare group at McGladrey Capital Markets, LLC, a middle-market-focused investment bank. In this interview with Healthcare Finance News editor Richard Pizzi, Walker discusses the economics of the healthcare industry under the Obama administration and how the investment community will be affected.

  • Newsmaker Interview: Gary Pickens
    March 06, 2009
    Gary Pickens, PhD, is Chief Research Officer in the Center for Healthcare Improvement at Thomson Reuters, and lead author of a new study titled "The Current Recession and U.S. Hospitals." In this interview with Healthcare Finance News editor Richard Pizzi, Pickens discusses his research and its implications for hospitals in the current economic climate.

  • Newsmaker Interview: David Bachman
    February 05, 2009
    According to a survey of healthcare staffing firms conducted by Longbow Research healthcare analyst David Bachman, healthcare staffing has deteriorated markedly since he conducted similar surveys in November 2008 and year ago.