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EP306: A Deep Dive Into Amazon's Pharmacy and the Amazon Pharmacy Model Some Employers Are Running With, With Ge Bai, PhD, CPA
Episode 306
Here's a trigger warning: This show gets pretty deep into some of the nether regions of PBM (pharmacy benefit manager) contractual terms with pharmac…
5 years, 4 months ago
EP305: The 1% Most Expensive Claimants Racking Up Massive FFS Bills and Still Not Getting the Help They Need From Our Health Care System, With Darrell Moon, CEO of Orriant
Episode 305
My guest in this health care podcast is Darrell Moon, who is the CEO over at Orriant.
I was super intrigued by some of the work that Darrell and his …
5 years, 4 months ago
AEE12: Steve Blumberg and I Discuss the 2020 Humana Value-based Care Report
I had a vision for this inbetweenisode. I wanted to highlight the wisdom of our amazing guests this year. I really wanted to find some theme that mig…
5 years, 4 months ago
EP304: How a Provider Population Health Leader Who Went to Work for a Payer Thinks About Health Care Transformation, With Steve Blumberg, VP of Practice Transformation for GuideWell Health
Episode 304
In this health care podcast, I speak with Steve Blumberg, VP of practice transformation for GuideWell Health, a subsidiary of GuideWell.
How's this f…
5 years, 4 months ago
Encore! EP216: How Medicare Part D Plans Became Addicted to Drug Rebates, With Chris Sloan From Avalere Health
Episode 216
Alex Azar, who is the current Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary (until January 21 anyway), came out with a reboot of the proposal that effect…
5 years, 4 months ago
Encore! EP231: Pharmaceutical Contracting, PBMs, Pharmacies, Employers, and the Latest HHS Rebate Proposal, With AJ Loiacono, CEO of Capital Rx
In November 2020, there was an Executive Order entitled "Lowering Prices for Patients by Eliminating Kickbacks to Middlemen." And we had HHS (US Depa…
5 years, 5 months ago
INBW29: The Secret to Transforming Our Health Care System Revealed—A Summary of the Wisdom of Relentless Health Value Guests in 2020
I had a vision for this inbetweenisode. I wanted to highlight the wisdom of our amazing guests this year. I really wanted to find some theme that mig…
5 years, 5 months ago
EP303: The Conflict Between QALYs for Drug Value and Specific Well-Funded Patient Advocacy Groups, With Anna Kaltenboeck From the Drug Pricing Lab at Memorial Sloan Kettering
Episode 303
You know back in the olden days when a foot of measurement was actually the measure of your own foot? So, I might measure something and it's, like, 1…
5 years, 5 months ago
EP302: The Gigantic Problem I Have With Talk About Telehealth, With Blake McKinney, MD, From CirrusMD
Episode 302
Sometimes when I overhear a conversation/argument about telehealth, it occurs to me that there's a lot of fighting words about some things and very, …
5 years, 5 months ago
Encore! EP206: Turns Out, High‑Deductible Plans Do Not Drive High‑Quality, Cost‑Effective Care, With Ashok Subramanian, CEO and Founder of Centivo
There's lots going on these days with transparency. Three cost transparency rules, as a matter of fact, just came out of CMS, for example. These rule…
5 years, 6 months ago