Aua Inside Tract

Host: Jennifer Miles Thomas, MD, FPMRS Guest: David F. Green, MD, FACS  Welcome to the AUA’s monthly podcast series that focuses on leadership and business topics relevant to the entire urologic care team. Please join us each month on the Inside Tract as our subject matter experts explore various aspects of today’s rapidly changing business environment. In this episode, Dr. David Green joins host, Dr. Jennifer Miles Thomas to discuss “The Psychology of Leadership."   

Host: Micheal Darson, MD, FACSGuest: David M. Albala, MD Welcome to the AUA’s monthly podcast series that focuses on leadership and business topics relevant to the entire urologic care team. Please join us each month on the Inside Tract as our subject matter experts explore various aspects of today’s rapidly changing business environment. In this episode, Dr. David Albala joins host, Dr. Micheal Darson, as they discuss the topic, Medical Malpractice: What Every Urologist Needs to Know.   

Dr. Michael Ernst, former chair of the AUA’s Residents & Fellow Committee, sits down with Dr. Simone Thavaseelan, an academic urologist, residency program director at Brown University and SAU Representative to the Organization of Program Director Associations (OPDA) to talk about preference signaling and other insights into the urology match.

Welcome to the AUA’s monthly podcast series that focuses on leadership and business topics relevant to the entire urologic care team. Please join us each month on the Inside Tract as our subject matter experts explore various aspects of today’s rapidly changing business environment. In this episode, Dr. Thomas Turk joins host, Dr. Jennifer Miles-Thomas, as they delve into the topic of Relative Unit Value and its importance in both reimbursement and physician compensation.

Welcome to the AUA’s all new monthly podcast series that focuses on leadership and business topics relevant to the entire urologic care team. Please join us each month on the Inside Tract as our subject matter experts explore various aspects of today’s rapidly changing business environment. We hope you enjoy this episode, “Importance of Understanding the Language of Finance”, with Dr. Micheal Darson and Dr. David Green.   

Welcome to the AUA’s all new monthly podcast series that focuses on leadership and business topics relevant to the entire urologic care team. Please join us each month on the Inside Tract as our subject matter experts explore various aspects of today’s rapidly changing business environment. We hope you enjoy this episode, “Primer on Private Health Care Insurance in the United States”, with Dr. Micheal Darson and Dr. Jonathan Rubenstein.   

Welcome to the AUA’s all new monthly podcast series that focuses on leadership and business topics relevant to the entire urologic care team. Please join us each month on the Inside Tract as our subject matter experts explore various aspects of today’s rapidly changing business environment. In this episode, Dr. Jonathan Rubenstein joins host, Dr. Micheal Darson, as they present a “Primer on Government Insurance”.

Welcome to the AUA’s all new monthly podcast series that focuses on leadership and business topics relevant to the entire urologic care team. Please join us each month on the Inside Tract as our subject matter experts explore various aspects of today’s rapidly changing business environment. In this episode, Dr. Brad Lerner joins host, Dr. Jennifer Miles-Thomas, as they delve into the topic of Alternative Compensation Models, Partnership and Private Equity.

In this episode of the AUA Inside Tract podcast, Stephanie Herrick, Director of Revenue Cycle Management at the Advanced Urology Institute (AUI), joins Michael Burnett of Kansas City Urology Care for a discussion on outsourced vs. internal billing processes. During the interview, Stephanie shares her hands-on experience setting up an internal billing department for AUI, as well as what contributed to her team’s success and her recommendations for other practices considering such a transition.

Welcome to the AUA’s all new, monthly podcast series that focuses on leadership and business topics relevant to the entire urologic care team. Please join us each month on the Inside Tract as our subject matter experts explore various aspects of today’s rapidly changing business environment. We hope you enjoy this episode where Dr. John McConnell and Dave Rickelton provide an overview of Physician Compensation Models.

Welcome to the AUA’s all new, monthly podcast series that focuses on leadership and business topics relevant to the entire urologic care team. Please join us each month on the Inside Tract as our subject matter experts explore various aspects of today’s rapidly changing business environment. Please enjoy this inaugural episode where Dr. Jennifer Miles-Thomas and Dr. David Green discuss why the business aspects of urology and healthy financial practices are absolutely mandatory for sustained high quality care delivery.

Sponsored by the AUA Young Urologists Committee, the Young Urologists of the Year Awards are presented annually to select AUA members who have been in practice for ten years or less in recognition of their efforts and commitment to advancing the development of fellow early-career urologists. Winners are nominated by their colleagues who serve on the Young Urologists Committee and approved by their Section Board of Directors. Southeastern Section winner Shenelle N. Wilson, MD, sits down with Patrick Selph, MD to talk about what being YU of the Year means to her.

Based on his lecture from AUA Live 2020, Dr. John Davis discusses tips for promoting your work in urology online. 

252 counties in the rural United States are without a single health care provider, and a specialty like urology can only be found in 38% of all US counties. Listen as Rep. David McKinley and Dr. Josh Langston discuss ways to address this workforce issue.

Please enjoy the following recording from the recent  CDMRP Congressional Briefing, which was hosted by the AUA, KidneyCAN, and ZERO: The End of Prostate Cancer. This briefing highlighted the important research conducted through the Kidney Cancer Research Program (KCRP) and Prostate Cancer Research Program (PCRP), which are part of the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs.

This week’s update includes AUA’s review of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services prior authorization final rule and state advocacy trends to expand the use of telehealth in areas such as including audio-only visits, ensuring HIPAA-compliant devices, and providing reimbursement parity.

Dr. Eric Klein of the Cleveland Clinic discusses his recent article in The Journal of Urology® titled "Androgen Deprivation Therapy in Men with Prostate Cancer Does Not Effect Risk of Infection with SARS-COV-2 ."

This week’s update includes AUA’s review of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services prior authorization final rule and state advocacy trends to expand the use of telehealth in areas such as including audio-only visits, ensuring HIPAA-compliant devices, and providing reimbursement parity.

Dr. Necole M. Streeper is our guest on the AUA Inside Tract Podcast this week. Dr. Streeper joins us to discuss her recent AUANews article, “SipIT Intervention to Increase Fluid Intake for Stone Prevention.” Dr. Streeper is a urologist with Penn State Health in Hershey, Pa. This article appeared on the front page of the December 2020 issue of AUANews.