Step into the world where healthcare meets finance with JTaylor as your guide in this month's new podcast! Join Herd Midkiff and Kyle Kirkpatrick, along with special guests Anna Brewer and Connor Wanhanen as they dive deep into the intricate realm of revenue analytics and valuations within the healthcare industry. Understand why JTaylor is brought in and may be needed for your organization to help provide clarity to the complex world of healthcare revenue. Get ready to decode the dollars and gain a sense behind a healthy bottom line in Season 3 Episode 5 of the JTaylor Healthcare Podcast!

On this episode of the JTaylor Healthcare Podcast Herd and Kyle are joined by JTaylor’s own Senior Manager Matt Riesen. This episode offers an insightful exploration into the dynamic realm of healthcare valuations. Herd, Kyle, and Matt dive into the complex landscape of valuation methodologies, trends, and factors influencing the current state of healthcare industries. This podcast should be considered essential listening for healthcare professionals as the JTaylor team unpacks the critical connection between valuations and informed decision-making. Whether you're a medical practitioner, administrator, or investor, this podcast will give you vital information regarding the intricacies of healthcare valuation and their impact on transactions.

As the lines between payer, provider continue blur in healthcare, new players are starting to emerge. Amazon, who has upended multiple industries in its 30-year history, has set its sights on healthcare with its recent acquisition of One Medical. This acquisition is a part of a broader shift towards a new era of retail health. How do healthcare providers, administrators, and investors, position themselves to stay ahead of this ever-changing environment? Join Kyle, Herd and special guest Andrew Pluff, an Associate at JTaylor and member of Gen Z, as they dive into these current trends and events and how they may change the delivery of healthcare and expectations of patients.

America is experiencing a physician shortage, and it’s only expected to get worse. Data published in 2020 by the Association of American Medical Colleges estimates that the U.S. could see a shortage of 54,100 to 139,000 physicians by 2033, with rural regions seeing significantly more severe staffing issues than suburban or urban regions. In this episode of the JTaylor Healthcare Podcast, Kyle and Herd delve deeper into the state of healthcare with Haley Adams, Principal at JTaylor, a 15-year healthcare veteran and head of the Physician Compensation service line. Haley began her career at JTaylor as an Analyst and has risen to one of the senior-most positions within our consulting division, while also creating a niche for herself in the field of Physician Compensation.

Delve deeper into the trends of the now and future of medicine, work-life balance generational changes, and if it's even worth it to be a doctor anymore.

In this episode of the JTaylor Healthcare Podcast, Kyle and Herd explore the career path that shaped Russell Meyers into his role and who he is today. The episode will navigate through stories of success and how Russell overcame barriers that his community faced. A leader of a West Texas hospital and care provider, Russell M

Celebrating a lifelong career, Russell Meyers reflects on his path to becoming a leader in the healthcare industry. Russell started out as a young executive in the Texas Medical Center, quickly became an integral part of the Columbia/HCA merger and held several chief executive roles up and down the Gulf Coast. Inspired to go back to his roots, where the community’s health is the priority, Russell joined Midland Memorial Hospital as President in November 2002. Over the past 20 years he has been running a hospital in the boomtown of Midland, Texas and has led Midland Memorial through all the challenges and changes that come with the boom / bust cycle of an oil patch town. With a recent focus on expanding access to behavioral health, Russell has been able to leave behind a positive impact on the lives of many, serving the Permian Basin community and its people.

Many aspects of the United States look very different today than they did on March 1, 2020, and healthcare is no exception. The pandemic has caused a shift in how people view hospitals and has brought to new light the advantages of healing in the comfort of your own home - much like people did a century ago. But will the Hospital at Home really catch on or is it a passing piece of the history of healthcare? Herd and Kyle are joined by founding partner and member of the board of directors at Emerus Holdings, Inc : John Buck, MD to discuss the Hospital at Home delivery model. Dr. Buck is hospital founder and former CEO, U.S. Air Force Veteran, and board-certified emergency medicine provider. Together, the group will explore the past and present of the Hospital at Home model and will discuss what the future of this unique medicine delivery model may hold.

2022 has been an eventful year for the healthcare space. From companies like CVS acquiring more and more of the continuum of care; to corporate giants like Amazon acquiring the primary care organization One Medical, the industry is seeing unprecedented M&A activity, with few signs of slowing down, despite overall economic uncertainty. In this episode of the JTaylor Healthcare podcast, Kyle and Herd welcome a very special guest, Blake Madden, to discuss the current healthcare market, the trends it is seeing, and what the future of consolidation might look like. Blake is a former healthcare consultant and current author of the health care business newsletter, “Hospitalogy”. With the newsletter, Blake reaches over 6,000 healthcare insiders each week providing in depth analysis and deep insights into the business of healthcare. Please join Kyle, Herd, and Blake in this lively discussion.

Medicare faces a “fiscal cliff” as the Medicare Hospital Insurance trust fund is currently projected to run out of money in 2028. In a country with an aging population and a decreasing number of workers to support the Medicare insurance program for seniors, the fiscal cliff is a concern for current and future Medicare patients and the providers who serve them. In this episode of the JTaylor Healthcare Podcast, Kyle and Herd welcome fellow JTaylor Partner and Director of Quality and Research, Courtney McKay, to discuss the recently released Medicare Trustees Report that outlines the future fiscal challenges of the Medicare program. Kyle, Courtney, and Herd talk about these challenges, their potential impact on healthcare providers and dealmakers, and possible actions that congress and leadership in Washington may take in the future to keep Medicare from falling off the cliff.

From payer mix and funding challenges to physician and nurse recruitment, rural hospitals are faced with financial and clinical pressures every day. COVID has added an additional layer of complexity as many people have moved from cities to smaller rural areas and they bring with the health care needs and expectations for care.

In this episode of the JTaylor Healthcare Podcast, Kyle and Herd welcome Eide Bailly Partner-in-Charge of Critical Access Hospitals: Ralph Llewellyn. Ralph is a subject matter expert in rural and critical access healthcare. Ralph, Kyle, and Herd will discuss the past, the present, and the future of rural health, a topic that is often overlooked in the vast and changing healthcare space.

With staffing challenges, small reimbursement increases (if any), and rising costs, healthcare providers face many challenges to their bottom line… at some point, something will have to give.

In this episode of the JTaylor Healthcare Podcast, Kyle and Herd welcome back JTaylor Partner Anna Brewer to the podcast to discuss some looming issues for providers, cover a rapidly changing dynamic framework that healthcare has not seen in some time, and dive into how these issues may impact provider operations, valuations, and health care transactions.

2021 was quite the year (to put it very mildly) and 2022 has had an equally interesting start as well.

In the first episode of the JTaylor Healthcare podcast for 2022, Kyle and Herd reflect back on what was 2021 and dive into areas of healthcare that the nation is focusing on for 2022. Areas such as the healthcare M&A rally, the more pressured push for price transparency, care delivery innovation, and others are reflected upon in order to move forward in 2022 by looking back in this episode of the JTaylor Healthcare Podcast.

Congressional Budget Office Article: The Prices That Commercial
Health Insurers and Medicare Pay for Hospitals’ and Physicians’ Services ⁠Link:
https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2022-01/57422-medical-prices.pdf

In the 2021 season finale of the JTaylor Healthcare Podcast, Herd and Kyle sit down for a close conversation with JTaylor co-founder and chairman-board of managers, Joe Taylor where he shares how it all started, lessons learned, and reflects on where the firm is going in the future.

Private equity in healthcare has exploded, and investors looking to get into the healthcare PE action face several challenges to get to expected returns. In this episode of the JTaylor Healthcare Podcast, Arielle Schmeck, CPA/ABV, CM&AA joins Kyle and Herd to discuss the impact of healthcare PE, changes in investor approach, and the rise in scrutiny. Arielle also shares insights from her article, "Private Equity and Health Care Investments: How Has COVID-19 Impacted Deal Flow?" which covers the healthcare PE deal flow funnel as a result of the pandemic, access to cheap debt, and excess "dry powder".

Private Equity and Health Care Investments: How Has COVID-19 Impacted Deal Flow?
https://www.jtaylor.com/news/private-equity-and-health-care-investments-how-has-covid-19-impacted-deal-flow

In this episode of the JTaylor Healthcare Podcast, Kyle and Herd welcome Anna Brewer, Keith Duggar, and Alyssa James to the podcast to discuss recent changes to Medicare Physician Fee Schedules and Stark Law that will affect physician compensation across the nation.

Hall Render Website- https://www.hallrender.com/

Hall Render Webinar Recording- Simple, But Not Easy: Assessing Impact of Medicare Physician Fee Schedule and Stark Law Changes- https://hall-render.wistia.com/medias/c7mj2l9meo

2021 Physician Fee Schedule Impact On Physician Practices: JTaylor 4 Part Series-

Part 1- https://www.jtaylor.com/news/2021-physician-fee-schedule-impact-on-physician-practices-part-1-what-is-the-problem

Part 2- https://www.jtaylor.com/news/2021-physician-fee-schedule-impact-on-physician-practices-part-1-what-is-the-problem

Part 3- https://www.jtaylor.com/news/2021-physician-fee-schedule-impact-on-physician-practices-part-3-surgical-specialties

Part 4- https://www.jtaylor.com/news/2021-physician-fee-schedule-impact-on-physician-practices-part-4-hospital-based-specialties

Due diligence can make or break the success of a healthcare deal. In this episode of the JTaylor Healthcare podcast, Kyle and Herd share their experiences navigating this important and complex area of business in a light-hearted conversation while also playing a little bit of their own consulting buzzword bingo along the way.

Continuing from the Healthcare Megatrends episode, Herd & Kyle dive deeper into the escalating cost of healthcare and what the U.S. is doing through Pricing Transparency by taking take us through the origins, its impact, and the hopes & dreams for it in the future

Kyle and Herd tackle the very “simple” topic of Behavioral Health in the United States, from current needs to gaps in care, and their observations on this important and critical piece of healthcare for the country.

In the first episode of the JTaylor Healthcare Podcast, Kyle and Herd sit down to share the megatrends they've seen affect the national healthcare business landscape.