A Washington Post investigation found that Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk paid more than $270 million to physicians and other prescribers between 2018 and 2025. On The Gist Healthcare Podcast, Washington Post data reporter Lydia Sidhom discusses how the companies’ outreach has expanded across the medical community and what the federal data can and cannot tell us about those payments. 

Further reading: The largely hidden force helping drive America’s craze for weight-loss drugs (Washington Post) 

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Rural healthcare providers face significant opportunities and difficult choices about the future. On The Gist Healthcare Podcast, Kenny O’Neill, managing director at Kaufman Hall, discusses how leaders can approach transformation amid mounting pressure. 

Further reading: Rural health needs big, transformative bets, not small pilots  

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Improving patient access requires more than new processes. It also requires clinicians, administrators, and healthcare leaders to work toward a shared goal. In Part 2 of our conversation, Victor Hassid, MD,  Associate Vice President of Access Strategic Operations at MD Anderson Cancer Center, discusses how organizations can align teams, overcome operational challenges and begin putting a patient safety approach to access into practice. 

You can listen to the first half of the conversation here.  

You can find Dr. Hassid's article in JAMA here. (paywall) 

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