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Podcast: Relentless Health Value
Episode: Payers Trying to Differentiate Themselves by Working With Provider Organizations … or Not, With Jacob Asher, MD—Summer Shorts 5
Description: This summer short is about the dynamic between payers and providers. An opening point that Jacob Asher, MD, my guest in this healthcare podcast, makes in the interview that follows is that, for a payer, it's super hard to competitively differentiate from both a cost and/or a quality perspective when you and all of your payer competition use the exact same PPO (preferred provider organization) networks. I mean, what? Are these same exact doctors gonna somehow do a better job with your members than with the rest of their patients? This is even more true if...