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The Podcast by KevinMD

Kevin Pho, MD

Social media's leading physician voice, Kevin Pho, MD, shares the stories of the many who intersect with our health care system but are rarely heard from. 15 minutes a day. 7 days a week. Welcome to The Podcast by KevinMD.

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  • July 17 · 14 min

    Medicare will pay you to keep patients well. Most practices miss it.

    Medicare will pay your practice to keep chronically ill patients out of the hospital, so why do most practices leave that money unused? Rachel Yates, a registered nurse and health care executive, joins to explain two reimbursement programs Medicare introduced in 2024, Community Health Integration and Principal Illness Navigation, and why two years later most practices still are not using them. This episode is based on her article "Patients pay when Medicare care coordination codes go unused," published on KevinMD. You will hear who actually qualifies, the patients you already see every day who keep cycling back through the ED, and how a single missed medication instruction can turn into a preventable readmission. Rachel makes the case that this is clinical care, not a billing add-on, and that the work can be delivered by contracted nurses under your supervision without piling more onto your existing staff. She walks through what a real between-visit coordination relationship looks like and why a 15-minute appointment was never going to fix everything. She lays out who qualifies, why the codes go unused, and the decision every practice now has to make. Partner with me on the KevinMD platform. With over three million monthly readers and half a million social media followers, I give you direct access to the doctors and patients who matter most. Whether you need a sponsored article, email campaign, video interview, or a spot right here on the podcast, I offer the trusted space your brand deserves to be heard. Let's work together to tell your story. PARTNER WITH KEVINMD → https://kevinmd.com/influencer SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST → https://www.kevinmd.com/podcast RECOMMENDED BY KEVINMD → https://www.kevinmd.com/recommended

  • July 16 · 16 min

    Cardiac arrest is a human problem, not a training problem

    When a patient's heart stops, the person leading the code is running on memory alone, and memory fails under that kind of pressure. Michael Peck is an anesthesiologist and retired faculty member at George Washington University who spent more than 30 years watching skilled clinicians get cognitively overwhelmed during a cardiac arrest. In this episode he explains why the problem is not a lack of training but the hard limits of human attention, memory, and decision making during a crisis. This conversation is based on his article "Cognitive overload in cardiac arrest is a human problem," published on KevinMD. You will hear what it actually feels like to run a code with no reference to lean on, why aviation and nuclear power lean on checklists while medicine still does not, and why hospital reviews built on memory may miss what went right as well as what went wrong. Press play to hear why he believes patient safety starts with admitting our limits. Partner with me on the KevinMD platform. With over three million monthly readers and half a million social media followers, I give you direct access to the doctors and patients who matter most. Whether you need a sponsored article, email campaign, video interview, or a spot right here on the podcast, I offer the trusted space your brand deserves to be heard. Let's work together to tell your story. PARTNER WITH KEVINMD → https://kevinmd.com/influencer SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST → https://www.kevinmd.com/podcast RECOMMENDED BY KEVINMD → https://www.kevinmd.com/recommended

  • July 15 · 20 min

    How to fix health care without Medicare for All

    Medicare for All keeps dying in Congress. So what would actually get the major players to agree on universal coverage? Health care journalist Ken Terry returns to lay out a different model, one that keeps insurance companies in the system while putting primary care doctors back in charge of basic care. This episode is based on his article "A Medicare for All alternative that keeps insurers in," published on KevinMD. You will learn why he believes Medicare for All is a political non-starter and how a two-part financing system could split basic care from major medical coverage. He explains why rewriting corporate practice of medicine laws to free primary care doctors from hospital and corporate employers sits at the center of his plan. You will also hear how independent primary care groups competing on cost and quality could raise physician pay through waste reduction, on a five-year path from here to there. Press play to hear how universal coverage might be reached without cutting the industry out. Partner with me on the KevinMD platform. With over three million monthly readers and half a million social media followers, I give you direct access to the doctors and patients who matter most. Whether you need a sponsored article, email campaign, video interview, or a spot right here on the podcast, I offer the trusted space your brand deserves to be heard. Let's work together to tell your story. PARTNER WITH KEVINMD → https://kevinmd.com/influencer SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST → https://www.kevinmd.com/podcast RECOMMENDED BY KEVINMD → https://www.kevinmd.com/recommended

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