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EP347: Rolling Out Healthcare Initiatives That Actually Get Uptake With the Populations You Aim to Serve, With Ian Tong, MD, About the Black Community Innovation Coalition
Episode 347
I attended the STAT Summit last week and heard the heart-wrenching story told by Charles Johnson, who is the founder of 4Kira4Moms, which is a group …
4 years, 5 months ago
Encore! EP288: The "Big Three" PBMs Spinning Up GPOs—What? With Mike Schneider
Over the holiday season here, we're running some of our favorite episodes from years past. This one is with Mike Schneider, who actually has taken an…
4 years, 6 months ago
EP346: How Did Health Systems Get Addicted to the Inflated Prices They Charge Employers and Some Patients? 2021 Update, With Peter Hayes, President and CEO of the Healthcare Purchaser Alliance of Maine
Episode 346
In this healthcare podcast, I speak with Peter Hayes, who is president and CEO at the Healthcare Purchaser Alliance of Maine and a national presence …
4 years, 6 months ago
EP345: Can Pharma Imagine How Our Health System Will Look in the Future? With Paul Simms
Episode 345
At the beginning of 2021, my guest in this healthcare podcast, Paul Simms, had come up with a set of predictions for 2021. Some came true; some didn'…
4 years, 6 months ago
EP344: The High Cost of Generic Drugs, With Steven Quimby, MD
Episode 344
I was on LinkedIn, and someone was saying, "Oh, there's no real money in generic drugs. It's not a huge issue if patients are paying 10 bucks instead…
4 years, 6 months ago
EP343: What Provider Leadership Teams Need to Know to Operationalize Value-Based Care, With David Carmouche, MD
Episode 343
Most people who have been in the healthcare industry for a while have heard by now the metaphor about the two canoes. Provider organizations or healt…
4 years, 6 months ago
EP342: How the Consolidated Appropriations Act (CAA) and ERISA Fiduciary Requirements Are an Anchor for Self-insured Employers to Navigate the Complexity of Healthcare, With Christin Deacon
Episode 342
This episode's conversation is about the new Consolidated Appropriations Act (CAA), the fee disclosure part of it, as well as ERISA and the fiduciary…
4 years, 7 months ago
EP341: How to Cut Administrative Waste AND Attract and Retain Doctors and Nurses, With Gary Campbell
Episode 341
First, let's talk about reducing administrative waste in the US healthcare system. There was a pretty famous 2019 study by Shrank et al. that estimat…
4 years, 7 months ago
EP340: How Digital Front Doors Can Enable Value-Based Care, With Kristin Begley
Episode 340
There's a next generation of digital front doors being created that open up to a patient/member experience that folds in payer, provider, and employe…
4 years, 7 months ago
AEE17: Employers and Reference-Based Pricing—David Contorno's Latest Thinking
Reference-based pricing, the way that most employee benefit consultants use the term anyway, refers to a methodology used by employers to pay provide…
4 years, 7 months ago