# Wednesday, April 22, 2026 Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-gist-healthcare-podcast-347322/wednesday-april-22-2026 Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-gist-healthcare-podcast-347322/wednesday-april-22-2026.md Podcast: [The Gist Healthcare Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-gist-healthcare-podcast-347322) Published: 2026-04-22T10:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://shows.acast.com/gisthealthcaredaily/episodes/wednesday-april-22-2026 Audio file: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/622b8f5080a3a00013890f23/e/69e81ca323929c3a2a758bb8/media.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-gist-healthcare-podcast-347322/episodes/wednesday-april-22-2026 Duration seconds: 497 ## Resource UnitedHealthcare eliminates a majority of prior authorizations for rural providers, the White House taps a new CDC director, and Michigan lowers the measles vaccine age in some counties, coming up on today’s episode of The Gist Healthcare Podcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-gist-healthcare-podcast-347322/episodes/wednesday-april-22-2026/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-gist-healthcare-podcast-347322/wednesday-april-22-2026.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.