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Inside the Doctor’s Lounge is a podcast by the Physician Side Gigs team, hosted by Dr. Nisha Mehta, which showcases popular topics from our online communities of over 220,000 physicians.
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- Sep 22, 2026
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Working Smarter, Not Harder, in Private Practice and the Personal Injury Space, with Dr. Amit Mehta (opens the original)
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In this episode, Dr. Nisha Mehta is joined by Dr. Amit Mehta, an interventional pain physician and founder of ABM Pain Consultants, who transitioned from traditional private practice to an independent 1099 model. He shares how his model of working across synergistic private practices and building out a personal injury and workers’ compensation practice has allowed him to reduce overhead, increase revenue per procedure, and build greater flexibility into his work. They discuss: How physicians can
How to Start a Cash-Pay Telehealth Practice, with Dr. Ashley Caravelli (opens the original)
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In this episode, Dr. Nisha Mehta is joined by Dr. Ashley Caravelli, a family medicine physician and menopause specialist who recently launched her own cash-pay telehealth practice, Axis Precision Health. She shares a behind-the-scenes look at going from an idea to actually seeing patients via telemedicine in just six months—and the business, legal, operational, and marketing decisions she had to make along the way. They discuss: How to take a telehealth practice from idea to launch in 6 months,
Fighting Physician Pay Cuts: Modifier 25 and Beyond, with Dr. Aaron Broadwell (opens the original)
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In this episode, Dr. Nisha Mehta is joined by Dr. Aaron Broadwell, rheumatologist and President of the Coalition of State Rheumatology Organizations (CSRO), to discuss the dangers of the proposed changes to payments for same-day E&M services and procedures in the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule. They also dig deep into not just how to advocate against it, but broaden the discussion about making the overall pot for physician compensation bigger rather than pitting physician specialties against ea
CMS’ 2027 Physician Compensation Proposal: The Good, Bad, & Ugly, with Dr. Saurin Patel (opens the original)
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In this episode, Dr. Nisha Mehta is joined by Dr. Saurin Patel, cardiologist and co-founder/Medical Director of MD365, a multi-specialty primary care and cardiology group. They break down CMS’s proposed 2027 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, and what the changes could mean for physicians, private practices, and the future of healthcare reimbursement, both good and bad. They discuss: What the proposed 2027 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule reveals about CMS’s broader push away from fee-for-service a
Lessons from a Year of Running a Direct Primary Care (DPC) Practice, with Christine Li Wan Po, D.O. (opens the original)
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In this episode, Dr. Nisha Mehta is joined by Dr. Christine Li Wan Po, board-certified family medicine physician and owner of Pinnacle Health, to discuss what it’s like to leave traditional employed medicine and build a direct primary care (DPC) practice. They discuss: Why she transitioned from a high-volume, insurance-based practice to direct primary care — and how it has helped her to maximize the joy in the doctor-patient relationship Why direct primary care doesn’t automatically mean more in
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