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The Gist Healthcare Podcast episodes
- Wednesday, May 6, 2026Coming up on The Gist Healthcare Podcast: UnitedHealthcare cuts prior authorizations by 30 percent. Healthcare bankruptcies rise in the first quarter. The Trump administration names a new Surgeon General.
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8 min - AI in Healthcare: When Imperfect Tools Meet Real-World Use
Artificial intelligence in healthcare is already being used in practice—but those tools aren’t perfect.
In the final part of a three-part series, host J. Carlisle Larsen continues her conversation with Dr. Robert Wachter, Chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco and author of A Giant Leap: How AI Is Transforming Healthcare and What That Means for Our Future.
As these tools move into wider use, Wachter explains how their limitations show up in real-world settings—from questions about reliability to how they’re used by clinicians and patients.
The conversation examines what happens when imperfect systems are used in higher-stakes environments, and what that means for how AI is adopted going forward.
You can listen to Part 1 here. And Part 2 here.
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18 min - Friday, April 24, 2026CMS to require state audits of Medicaid providers, the Trump administration plans faster Medicare coverage for breakthrough devices, and a new survey shows physician burnout declining, on today’s episode of The Gist Healthcare Podcast.
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9 min - Wednesday, April 22, 2026UnitedHealthcare eliminates a majority of prior authorizations for rural providers, the White House taps a new CDC director, and Michigan lowers the measles vaccine age in some counties, coming up on today’s episode of The Gist Healthcare Podcast.
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9 min - AI in Healthcare: How Scribes Became Healthcare’s Biggest AI Use Case
Artificial intelligence in healthcare is often discussed in terms of what it might do. But, in some areas, it’s already being put to use.
In Part 2 of a three-part series, host J. Carlisle Larsen continues her conversation with Dr. Robert Wachter, Chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco and author of A Giant Leap: How AI Is Transforming Healthcare and What That Means for Our Future.
This episode focuses on AI scribes—one of the first use cases gaining traction across health systems—and what they reveal about how this technology is being adopted in practice.
Wachter explains why scribes have emerged as an early success and what they signal about where AI may go next.
You can listen to the first half of the conversation here.
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21 min - Friday, April 17, 2026New drug prior authorization rules are under consideration, physician pay rose slightly in 2025, and proposed legislation would count direct-to-consumer drug purchases toward deductibles. Those stories and more on today’s episode of The Gist Healthcare Podcast.
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9 min - Wednesday, April 15, 2026Medicare inpatient pay edges up, measles cases top 1,700, and vaccine confidence slips, on today’s episode of The Gist Healthcare Podcast.
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9 min - AI in Healthcare: What’s Different and What Isn’t
Artificial intelligence is being positioned as the next major transformation in healthcare, but the industry has seen similar waves of technological change before.
In Part 1 of a three-part series, host J. Carlisle Larsen speaks with Robert Wachter, M.D., Chair of the Department of Medicine at University of California-San Francisco and author of A Giant Leap: How AI Is Transforming Healthcare and What That Means for Our Future, about how to understand this moment in AI.
Drawing on lessons from the rollout of electronic health records, Wachter explains why previous efforts to digitize healthcare often fell short of expectations and what may be different this time.
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19 min - Friday, April 10, 2026Jefferson Health sues Aetna over a so-called Medicare Advantage "down coding" policy, CMS raises MA rates next year, and healthcare affordability tops domestic concerns, on today’s episode of The Gist Healthcare Podcast.
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8 min - Wednesday, April 8, 2026The White House proposes a 12% cut to HHS, insurers report further reductions in prior authorization, and a new study links AI scribes to modest documentation time savings, on today’s episode of The Gist Healthcare Podcast.
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About The Gist Healthcare Podcast
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The Gist Healthcare Podcast from Kaufman Hall delivers the top healthcare business and policy news in under 10 minutes every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Host J. Carlisle Larsen gives you the “gist”…
of what’s happening in healthcare across the country so you can start your day informed. Subscribe and listen.
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