Medicare often pays clinics owned by hospitals double the amount it pays independent clinics for the exact same medical care. Ending that practice could save the federal government up to $150 billion over 10 years, but critics say it could push rural hospitals over the brink.

Guests:

Tim Rye, chief strategic development officer, Peterson Health 

Carrie Cochran-McClain, chief policy officer, National Rural Health Association

Loren Adler, fellow and associate director at the Center on Health Policy, Brookings Institution

Dean Clancy, senior health policy fellow, Americans for Prosperity 

Ali Moghtaderi, assistant professor of health policy and management, Milken Institute School of Public Health at the George Washington University.

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A closer look at the surgeon-turned-TV-star President Trump wants in charge of Medicare, Medicaid and Obamacare.

Guests:

Tara Bannow, Reporter, STAT News

Tom Scully, CMS Administrator (2001-2004)

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A candid conversation between a professor and a Ph.D. candidate about potential NIH funding cuts and their impact on the future of medical research.

Guests:

Yvonne Commodore-Mensah, Associate Professor, Associate Dean of Research, Johns Hopkins School of Nursing

Laura Mata López, PhD Candidate, Johns Hopkins School of Nursing

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As adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities strive to live more freely and fully than ever before, many of America’s doctors, hospitals and insurers are getting in the way. We get an inside look at one doctor’s quest to improve health care for people with conditions like Down Syndrome, cerebral palsy and autism.

Guests:

Alison Barkoff, JD, Administration for Community Living, HHS

Kevin Carlson

Clarissa Kripke, MD, Clinical Professor of Family and Community Medicine and Director of the Office of Developmental Primary Care; University of California, San Francisco

Marjorie Ongpauco, BSN, RN, Nursing Consultant

Harold Pollack, PhD, Professor of Social Work, Policy and Practice; University of Chicago

Donna Valencia, BSN, RN, MSN, Administrator, Group Home Administrator

Leslie Walker, Senior Producer/Reporter, Tradeoffs

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New research sheds light on how many hospitals are using artificial intelligence, what they’re using AI for, and what it means for patients and policymakers.

Guest:

Paige Nong, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota School of Public Health

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Worrying about deportation can literally make people sick. Health care providers are scrambling to cut through their undocumented patients’ panic about President Trump’s new immigration policies.

Guests:

Maria

Steph Willding, CEO, CommunityHealth

Emily Hendel, Director of Clinical Services, CommunityHealth

Samantha Artiga, Vice President and Director for Racial Equity Health Policy Program, KFF

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The Trump administration’s swift and sweeping efforts to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development is creating chaos across global public health efforts. One doctor working to halt an Ebola outbreak in Uganda reflects on consequences, now and long-term, of America’s abrupt change in policy.

Guest:

Dr. James Lawler, Director of International Programs and Innovation, Global Center for Health Security at the University of Nebraska Medical Center

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The fight to improve Americans’ nutrition could get new momentum from Robert F. Kennedy Jr., but he will face practical and political limits to changing U.S. food supply if he’s confirmed to lead the Health and Human Services Department.

Guests:

Laura Schmidt, professor at the University of California at San Francisco Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies; Department of Humanities and Social Sciences; and School of Medicine. 

Susan Mayne, former director of the Food and Drug Administration Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition 2015-2023; Yale University adjunct professor of epidemiology.

Christina Roberto, director of the Center for Food and Nutrition Policy at the University of Pennsylvania

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If the Senate confirms Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — a vaccine skeptic — to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, he would control a powerful group of federal vaccine advisors.

Guests:

Ron Balajadia, Hawaii Department of Health immunization branch chief

Dorit Reiss, University of California, San Francisco, professor of public health law 

Dr. Sarah Long, former member of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices and Drexel University, professor of pediatric infectious disease

Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

Richard Hughes IV, attorney with Epstein Becker Green 

Per Fischer, CEO, MinervaX

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Former HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius shares what the country’s top health official can and can’t do, and what she wants senators to consider ahead of RFK’s confirmation hearings.

Read our new story about an obscure but extremely influential vaccine committee that Kennedy, if confirmed. would control.

Guest:

Kathleen Sebelius, Former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Secretary

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