Relentless Health Value
By Stacey Richter
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American Healthcare Entrepreneurs and Execs you might want to know. Talking.
Relentless Health Value is a weekly interview podcast hosted by Stacey Richter, a healthcare entrepreneur celebrating fifteen years in the business side of healthcare.
This show is for leaders in pharma, devices, payers, providers, patient advocacy and healthcare business. It's for health industry innovators, entrepreneurs or wantrepreneurs or intrapreneurs.
Relentless Healthcare Value is the show for you if you want to connect with others trying to manage the triple play: to provide healthcare value while being personally and professionally fulfilled.
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EP495: Wait … Flip That—A Crazy Revelation I Had About Trying to Fix U.S. Healthcare, With Mick Connors, MD
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Dec 11, 2025 |
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EP494: Six Tensions of Pharmaceutical Drug Pricing, With Sarah Emond
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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Bonus Add-on for EP494: Who Is ICER and What Is the Arms Race of Pharmaceutical Pricing That the Status Quo Has Created? With Sarah Emond
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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INBW43: Five Baskets of Thank Yous to Hand Out, Along With a Plug for Big Demand Curve Energy
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Nov 26, 2025 |
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Take Two: EP240: A Direct Contracted and Actually High-Value Network That Elizabeth Mitchell From PBGH Talked About, With Olivia Ross
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Nov 20, 2025 |
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EP493: Revelations Mainstream CEOs Are Having About the Healthcare Market Right Now—Also, Some Advice, With John Quinn
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Nov 13, 2025 |
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EP492: The Solutions Show: How to Run a High-Quality Hospital at 143% of Medicare, With Sam Flanders, MD, and Shane Cerone
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Nov 06, 2025 |
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EP491: Incumbent TPAs and Consultants Getting Called to Jumbo Employer Client HQ to Answer Awkward Questions, With Elizabeth Mitchell
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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EP490: The Problem Show: 3 Problematic Hospital Myths, Including "There Is a Healthcare Market," With Shane Cerone and Sam Flanders, MD
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Oct 23, 2025 |
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EP489: MARGIN! Margin That Creates a Path to Mission at a Multispecialty Group, With Dan Greenleaf
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Oct 16, 2025 |
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EP489: Achieving Mission That Is a Path to Margin at a Multispecialty Practice, With Dan Greenleaf
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Oct 09, 2025 |
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EP488: Mark Cuban, Cora Opsahl, Trust, Simplicity, and a Chicken—Today We Talk Healthcare
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Oct 02, 2025 |
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EP487 (Part 2): Kevin Lyons Shares What He Learned in Detective Training That He Uses to Follow the Healthcare Dollar
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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EP487 (Part 1): A Former Police Detective Investigates the 3 Big Barriers to the Public Sector Getting Better Affordable Health Benefits, With Kevin Lyons
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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EP486: The Secrets to Operationalizing Direct Contracting From an OG, With Stan Schwartz, MD
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Sep 11, 2025 |
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EP485: Imaging Costs 6% to 11% of Plan Sponsor Spend: How Direct Contracting Can Save Money and Improve Access, With Cristin Dickerson, MD
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Sep 04, 2025 |
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Take Two: EP436: Let's Talk About TPA and Health Plan Inertia Instead of Jumbo Employer Inertia, With Elizabeth Mitchell
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Aug 28, 2025 |
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EP484: What Are the 3 Most Burning Questions That Plan Sponsors Have Right Now? With Dave Chase
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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EP483 (Part 2): Reversing the Healthcare Flywheel to Contain Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs, With Jonathan Baran
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Aug 14, 2025 |
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EP483 (Part 1): To Contain Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs or Renewals, You Gotta Understand How the Flywheel Works, With Jonathan Baran
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Aug 07, 2025 |
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Bonus Add-on to EP483 (Part 1): Honoring Those in Healthcare Who Are Trying Every Day to Do the Right Thing, With Jonathan Baran
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Aug 07, 2025 |
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How Margin Shoves Mission Off of the Bus: A Primary Care Case Study, With Stan Schwartz, MD—Summer Shorts
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Jul 31, 2025 |
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EP482: 3 Surprising Ways Carriers Make Lots of Money—What Do Plan Sponsors and Clinical Organizations Really Need to Know? With Preston Alexander
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Jul 24, 2025 |
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Take Two: EP445: What Does It Take for an Indie Primary Care Practice to Survive Right Now? With Tom X. Lee, MD
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Jul 17, 2025 |
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Bonus Clip: Dr. Tom Lee Talks About Why Retail Clinics Are Not Doing So Well, in His Opinion
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Jul 17, 2025 |
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EP481: Seriously, IRL, What Does "No Margin, No Mission" Even Mean? With Benjamin Schwartz, MD, MBA
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Jul 10, 2025 |
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Take Two: EP438: Is It Mission and/or Margin? With John Lee, MD
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Jul 03, 2025 |
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EP480: Payment Integrity Meets Health System Boasts, Such as Our Rates Are 2x Medicare, With Kimberly Carleson
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Jun 26, 2025 |
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Pharma Rebates: A Few Nuances You May Not Have Thought Of, With Ann Lewandowski—Summer Shorts
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Jun 19, 2025 |
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EP479: Part 2. What Could Go Wrong Covering High-Cost Claimants With Stop-Loss Reinsurance?
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Jun 12, 2025 |
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Take Two: EP433: The Mystery of the Weekly Claims Wire, With Justin Leader
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Jun 05, 2025 |
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EP478: Stop-Loss Coverage, Part 1: How It Goes Right, and How It Can Go Horribly Wrong, With Andreas Mang and Jon Camire
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May 29, 2025 |
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EP477: Through Line Show: What the Tribe Thinks You Need to Know About Trust or It's Gonna Be a Problem. Also, Why You Are Smart, With Stacey Richter
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May 22, 2025 |
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Bonus Add-on to EP477: How to Earn Trust, With Charles Green
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May 22, 2025 |
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EP476: Talking Whistleblowing and the Pharma Rebates Whistleblower Case With an Actual Whistleblower, With Ann Lewandowski
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May 15, 2025 |
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EP475: Is This a Moment or a Movement? With Peter Hayes
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May 08, 2025 |
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EP474: Private Equity in Healthcare—The Big Data Points You Really Need to Know, All Together in One Episode, With Yashaswini Singh, PhD
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May 01, 2025 |
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EP473: Keeping Patients out of the ER: How Trusted Relationships in Primary Care Should Work. A Take 2 With Kenny Cole, MD
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Apr 24, 2025 |
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EP472: The Well-Honed, Three-Prong Hospital Playbook to Maximize Revenue From High-Cost Claimants, With Eric Bricker, MD
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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EP471: High-Cost Claimants in 2025 and Beyond—What Is Really Expensive Not to Know? With Christine Hale, MD, MBA
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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EP470: Continuing the ER and Primary Care Through Line Over to Rural Hospitals and Healthcare, With Nikki King, DHA
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Apr 03, 2025 |
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EP469 (Part 2): The Impact on Plan Sponsors of Medicare Site-Neutral Payments and HSA Reforms, With James Gelfand, JD
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Mar 27, 2025 |
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EP469 (Part 1): The Impact on Plan Sponsors of Medicaid Cuts, With James Gelfand, JD
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Mar 27, 2025 |
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EP468: Very Common Assumptions That Aren't Actually True About Member Engagement and the Healthcare Industry, With Matt McQuide
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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EP467: Connecting Sky-High ER Spend to Primary Care Access—Following the Dollar Through Carriers and Hospitals, With Stacey Richter
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Mar 13, 2025 |
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EP466: What Is Rising Faster, Insurance Premiums or Hospital Prices? With Vivian Ho, PhD
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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EP465: The Not Super Effective Contracting Industry Norm, Where Jumbo Plans and Others Wind Up Paying $10,000 for $50 Drugs, With Chris Crawford
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Feb 27, 2025 |
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EP464: ER Visits Now 6% of Total Plan Spend. Is It Upcoding or What? With Al Lewis
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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EP463: Medicare Advantage Policies—Which Will Stay and Which Will Go Now? With Betsy Seals
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Feb 13, 2025 |
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Encore! EP384: How Shareholders Impact Carrier Behavior, Exactly and Specifically, With Wendell Potter
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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EP462: Managing Populations of Whole, Actual People Who Are Not the Sum of a Bunch of Different Body Parts, With Scott Conard, MD
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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INBW42: A Philosophical Rabbit Hole of Considerations for Plan Sponsors and Others
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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EP461: Pick Only One, Plan Sponsors: Do You Want to Control GLP-1 Volume or Control GLP-1 Unit Cost? With Chris Crawford
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Jan 16, 2025 |
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EP460: Rushika Fernandopulle, MD's Theory of Change Starts With Status Quo Healthcare
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Jan 09, 2025 |
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EP459: Cost Containment by Co-Pay Maximizer or Co-Pay Accumulator: Points to Ponder, With Bill Sarraille
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Jan 02, 2025 |
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INBW41: End-of-Year Wrap-Up and My Personal Charter Encore: Where the Rubber Hits the Road
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Dec 26, 2024 |
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Encore! EP419: The Financialization of Health Benefits for Boards of Directors and C-Suites of Self-Insured Employers, With Andreas Mang
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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EP458: A Really Unexpected Consideration for Solving Staffing Shortages That Impact Access and Care Quality That Is Based on a Ton of Evidence, With Komal Bajaj, MD
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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EP457: It's a Big Thing: Medical Spread Pricing. So, Let's Talk About Contract Transparency, With Cynthia Fisher
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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INBW40: Thank Yous and the Intersection of Product Value, Collaboration, and Being a "Giver"
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Nov 27, 2024 |
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Encore! EP418: Mark Cuban With a PSA for CEOs and CFOs of Self-insured Employers, With Mark Cuban and Ferrin Williams, PharmD, MBA, From Scripta
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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Encore! EP415: Some Jumbo Employers Buying Better Healthcare Outcomes While Saving 15% on Total Cost of Care, With Rob Andrews
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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EP456: Advice to Pharma at the Intersection of Product Value, Reputation, and Patient Affordability, With Brian Reid
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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EP455: A Leadership Blueprint for Measurably Better Care, With Beau Raymond, MD
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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EP454: How the Particle v Epic Lawsuit Impacts Plan Sponsors and Public Health Trying to Get Data, With Brendan Keeler
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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EP453: Running a TPA (Third-Party Administrator) RFP Process That Is Less of a Wild West Fiduciary Shootout, With Claire Brockbank
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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EP452: Fiduciary Duty vs the Healthcare Status Quo, With Cora Opsahl
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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Spotlight Episode: Oncology Side Effect Management in the Real World, With Dan Nardi From Reimagine Care
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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EP451: Hey, Let's Not Talk About Artificial Intelligence, With Spencer Dorn, MD, MPH, MHA
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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EP450: When Your Health Plan Is $9 Million in the Hole, Who Are You Going to Call? A CPA. And Tell Them to Bring Their Spreadsheets, With Marilyn Bartlett, CPA, CGMA, CMA, CFM
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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EP449: For Clinical Leaders, Payers, and Plan Sponsors, Let's Talk About Blind Spots for Getting Patients or Members Appropriate Care, With Marty Makary, MD, MPH
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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EP448 (Part 2): 340B: Why Employers Should Probably Care About What's Happening Here, With Shawn Gremminger
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Sep 05, 2024 |
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EP448 (Part 1): 340B: Where It Started, Where It Is Now, and Who Is Really Benefiting From This Massive Program, With Shawn Gremminger
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Sep 05, 2024 |
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The Euphemism That Has Become Value-Based Care, With Elizabeth Mitchell—Summer Shorts 9
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Aug 29, 2024 |
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Encore! EP413: The Intersection of Healthcare Waste, Value-Based Care, and the Potential Rising Power of PCPs, With Will Shrank, MD
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Aug 22, 2024 |
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Encore! EP402: What Physicians Trying to Clinically Integrate Care in the Real World Need to Know, With Amy Scanlan, MD
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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EP447: Why an "EHR Strategy" Isn't Enough, With Ashleigh Gunter
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Aug 08, 2024 |
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EP446: Hey, Let's Not Talk About EHRs, With Spencer Dorn, MD, MPH, MHA
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Aug 01, 2024 |
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EP445: Can a Primary-Care-Only Practice Survive in 2024? With Tom X. Lee, MD
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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Encore! EP397: The Minefield That Is a PBM Contract and Also Some Advice for EBCs Who Are Taking Money Under the Table, With Paul Holmes
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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EP444: Two State Healthcare Laws Often Don't Go as Planned: CON and COPA, With Ann Kempski
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Jul 11, 2024 |
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EP443: Let Us Never Pay the First Bill in Honor of Marshall Allen
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Jul 04, 2024 |
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EP442: A Short Rumination on Saving Money, Except Not Saving Money. Oncology Side Effect Management as a Case Study, With Andreas Mang
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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EP441: Tables Get Turned. This Is Me Interviewed by Abby Burns From Radio Advisory About What Is Value
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Jun 20, 2024 |
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EP440: What Is the Optimal Size for a Medical Practice? With David Muhlestein, PhD, JD
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Jun 13, 2024 |
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EP439: Fixing the Generic Drug Pricing Problem, Where Patients Pay More When They Use Their Insurance, With Luke Slindee, PharmD
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Jun 06, 2024 |
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EP438: Recognizing Cognitive Dissonance and Thinking About How to Overcome It When in the Belly of the Beast, With John Lee, MD
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May 30, 2024 |
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EP437: The Most Powerful Committee No One Ever Heard of and Their Role in Primary Care and Mental Health Struggles, With Brian Klepper, PhD
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May 23, 2024 |
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EP436: Let's Talk About TPA and Health Plan Inertia Instead of Jumbo Employer Inertia, With Elizabeth Mitchell
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May 16, 2024 |
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Encore! EP363: How to Cut Healthcare Admin Burden in Half, With David Scheinker, PhD
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May 09, 2024 |
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EP435: Optimized Pharmacy Benefits Are Required if You Want to Do or Buy Value-Based Care, With Dan Mendelson
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May 02, 2024 |
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EP434: 5 Surprises About Bundled Payments, With Benjamin Schwartz, MD, MBA
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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EP433: The Mystery of the Weekly Claims Wire: What Are Plan Sponsors Actually Paying For Each Week? With Justin Leader
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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Encore! EP391: A Case Study for Anyone Trying to Level Up Primary Care That I'm Gonna Call "How Margin Shoves Mission Off the Bus," With Scott Conard, MD
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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Encore! EP297: A Driver of Patient Engagement and Clinician Team Success That Is Almost Always Overlooked, With Jerry Durham
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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EP432: The Knifepoint Intersection of Margin and Mission and the Peril of Cutting Clinical "Waste," With Kate Wolin, ScD
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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EP431: How Accountability for Outcomes Works in the Real World With Kenny Cole, MD
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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EP430: Advice for Digital Health Vendors Selling to Employers, With Barbara Wachsman
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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EP429: Following the Dollar Through Pharmacy Acronyms Like WAC, AWP, and NADAC, With Luke Slindee, PharmD
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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EP428: Do-It-Now Advice From the J&J and the DOL v BCBS Lawsuits, With Julie Selesnick
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Feb 29, 2024 |