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Relentless Health Value

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.

EP440: What Is the Optimal Size for a Medical Practice? With David Muhlestein, PhD, JD

38 mins; June 13, 2024

EP439: Fixing the Generic Drug Pricing Problem, Where Patients Pay More When They Use Their Insurance, With Luke Slindee, PharmD

28 mins; June 06, 2024

EP438: Recognizing Cognitive Dissonance and Thinking About How to Overcome It When in the Belly of the Beast, With John Lee, MD

38 mins; May 30, 2024

EP437: The Most Powerful Committee No One Ever Heard of and Their Role in Primary Care and Mental Health Struggles, With Brian Klepper, PhD

15 mins; May 23, 2024

EP436: Let's Talk About TPA and Health Plan Inertia Instead of Jumbo Employer Inertia, With Elizabeth Mitchell

41 mins; May 16, 2024

Encore! EP363: How to Cut Healthcare Admin Burden in Half, With David Scheinker, PhD

33 mins; May 09, 2024

EP435: Optimized Pharmacy Benefits Are Required if You Want to Do or Buy Value-Based Care, With Dan Mendelson

35 mins; May 02, 2024

EP434: 5 Surprises About Bundled Payments, With Benjamin Schwartz, MD, MBA

39 mins; April 25, 2024

EP433: The Mystery of the Weekly Claims Wire: What Are Plan Sponsors Actually Paying For Each Week? With Justin Leader

40 mins; April 18, 2024

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

36 mins; April 11, 2024

Encore! EP297: A Driver of Patient Engagement and Clinician Team Success That Is Almost Always Overlooked, With Jerry Durham

34 mins; April 04, 2024

EP432: The Knifepoint Intersection of Margin and Mission and the Peril of Cutting Clinical "Waste," With Kate Wolin, ScD

38 mins; March 28, 2024

EP431: How Accountability for Outcomes Works in the Real World With Kenny Cole, MD

39 mins; March 21, 2024

EP430: Advice for Digital Health Vendors Selling to Employers, With Barbara Wachsman

38 mins; March 14, 2024

EP429: Following the Dollar Through Pharmacy Acronyms Like WAC, AWP, and NADAC, With Luke Slindee, PharmD

38 mins; March 07, 2024

EP428: Do-It-Now Advice From the J&J and the DOL v BCBS Lawsuits, With Julie Selesnick

41 mins; February 29, 2024

EP427: How Do Digital Health Vendors Deliver Patient Outcomes and Experiences? With Rik Renard

36 mins; February 22, 2024

Encore! EP379: How Much Money, Really, Are Employee Benefit Consultants and/or Brokers Making From Plan Sponsors? With AJ Loiacono

35 mins; February 15, 2024

EP426: Cost Containment Versus Value-based Drug Purchasing, With Nina Lathia, RPh, MSc, PhD

33 mins; February 08, 2024

EP425: Three Ways for "Regular" Clinical Practices to Take Cash When It's Cheaper for a Patient Than Using Their Insurance, With Marshall Allen

39 mins; February 01, 2024

INBW39: The Narcissism of Small Differences Is a Really Must-Know Concept When Attempting to Fix the Healthcare Industry

19 mins; January 25, 2024

EP424: Five Things for Hospital System Execs to Get Real About in 2024, With Peter Hayes

45 mins; January 18, 2024

EP423: Maximizers and the "the Drugs Aren't Covered" Schemes Employers Use to Save Money (or Not) on Pharmacy Benefits, With Joey Dizenhouse

44 mins; January 11, 2024

EP422: Some Indie Pharmacy Upshots That Surprised Me—and I Thought I Was Pretty in the Know, With Benjamin Jolley, PharmD

36 mins; January 04, 2024

Encore! EP392: When Patient Journeys Don't Fit in the EHR, With Emily Kagan Trenchard

30 mins; December 28, 2023

Encore! EP372: Step One for Employers and Unions—Get Your Data, With Cora Opsahl

31 mins; December 21, 2023

EP421: Wildly Improving Outcomes When the Patient Is, for Reals, in the Center—For Maternity and Beyond, With Jodilyn Owen

35 mins; December 14, 2023

EP420: Paying Cash for Generic Drugs—Some Finer Points That Had Totally Gone Over My Head, With Ge Bai, PhD, CPA

36 mins; December 07, 2023

EP419: The Financialization of Health Benefits for Boards of Directors and C-Suites of Self-Insured Employers, With Andreas Mang

38 mins; November 30, 2023

Encore! EP381: For Reals, Becoming Customer-centric, Transforming, or Innovating at a Very Large Organization, With Karen Root

32 mins; November 23, 2023

EP418: Mark Cuban With Some Advice for CEOs and CFOs of Self-insured Employers, With Mark Cuban and Ferrin Williams, PharmD, MBA, From Scripta

54 mins; November 16, 2023

Encore! EP385: Morgan Health and the 5 Things Self-insured Employers Should Do Right Now, With Dan Mendelson

34 mins; November 09, 2023

EP417: 5 Kinds of Payer and Provider Collaborations and 5 Must-Haves for Said Collaborations to Work, With Josh Berlin, JD

33 mins; November 02, 2023

EP416: Why Should Med Schools Teach the Business of Medicine? With Adam Brown, MD, MBA

41 mins; October 26, 2023

EP415: Some Jumbo Employers Buying Better Healthcare Outcomes While Saving 15% on Total Cost of Care, With Rob Andrews

43 mins; October 19, 2023

EP414: An IRL How-To for Delivering Better Care and Getting Paid for It—A Value-Based Case Study, With Justina Lehman

39 mins; October 12, 2023

EP413: The Intersection of Healthcare Waste, Value-Based Care, and the Potential Rising Power of PCPs, With Will Shrank, MD

35 mins; October 05, 2023

EP411: Getting Paid (or Paying) for New Innovations Used in Hospitals as Part of a Procedure or a DRG—Also Bloodstream Infections and Dialysis, With Secretary David Shulkin, MD, and Erin Mistry

10 mins; September 29, 2023

Encore! EP361: The Gap in Closing Care Gaps, With Carly Eckert, MD, PhD(c), MPH

30 mins; September 28, 2023

EP412: Leadership of the Art and Science of Medicine, With Robert Pearl, MD

32 mins; September 21, 2023

Are Physicians (and the Rest of Us, Nothing for Nothing) Knights, Knaves, and/or Pawns? With Larry Bauer, MSW, MEd—Summer Shorts 8

20 mins; September 14, 2023

Why Do Actuarial Risk Horizons Really Matter for Anybody Trying to Improve Patient Outcomes? With Keith Passwater and JR Clark—Summer Shorts 7

20 mins; August 31, 2023

Should You Not Give Employees the Benefit Design They Think They Want? With Lauren Vela—Summer Shorts 6

9 mins; August 24, 2023

Payers Trying to Differentiate Themselves by Working With Provider Organizations … or Not, With Jacob Asher, MD—Summer Shorts 5

14 mins; August 17, 2023

Supergroups, Super ACOs, and Ochsner's Value-Based Care Journey, With Eric Gallagher—Summer Shorts 4

18 mins; August 10, 2023

EP410: The Imperative and a 201-Level Financial How-To for Payers and Provider Organizations to Collaborate to Help CKD Patients and Others With Chronic Conditions, With Dan Serrano

34 mins; August 03, 2023

EP409: 3 Really Cool Innovative Primary Care Bright Spots and a Few Notes for Policymakers and Payers, With Larry Bauer, MSW, MEd

38 mins; July 27, 2023

Does Advanced Primary Care Reduce Access for Patients? With Vivek Garg, MD, MBA—Summer Shorts 3

5 mins; July 20, 2023

What Happens When Someone Tries to Un-transform a Transformed PCP Practice? With Scott Conard, MD—Summer Shorts 2

6 mins; July 13, 2023

How Come There Aren't More Hospital Antitrust Cases? With Brennan Bilberry—Summer Shorts 1

8 mins; July 06, 2023

INBW38: What I'm Up to Right Now, Big RHV Plans for the Summer—Also Doug Pohl, Justina Lehman, and Dr. Amy Scanlan

9 mins; June 29, 2023

Encore! EP365: The Real Deal With PBM Contracts and Drug Rebates, With Scott Haas

33 mins; June 22, 2023

EP408: Who's Suing Who? An Overview of Healthcare Legal Goings-on, With Chris Deacon

39 mins; June 15, 2023

EP407: Considering Comprehensive Primary Care at Humana, With Vivek Garg, MD, MBA

35 mins; June 08, 2023

EP406: The Inertia Show: 5 Excellent Reasons for the "Why" With the Inertia in Benefits Departments, With Lauren Vela

32 mins; June 01, 2023

Encore! EP249: The War on Financial Toxicity in North Carolina as a Case Study Everybody Should Be Keeping Their Eye On, With Dale Folwell, North Carolina State Treasurer

32 mins; May 25, 2023

EP405: What Else Physicians Trying to Clinically Integrate in the Real World Really Need to Know, With Eric Gallagher

31 mins; May 18, 2023

EP404: What Now? Who's on the Board of Those Big Hospitals? With Suhas Gondi, MD, MBA

32 mins; May 11, 2023

EP403: The Mix & Match With the How Doctors Get Paid, With Rachel Reid, MD, MS

32 mins; May 04, 2023

EP402: What Physicians Trying to Clinically Integrate Care in the Real World Need to Know, With Amy Scanlan, MD

32 mins; April 27, 2023

EP401: The Most Interesting Questions About the IRA Drug Price Negotiations, With Peter J. Neumann, ScD

31 mins; April 20, 2023

EP400: My Manifesto, Part 2: Where the Rubber Hits the Road

21 mins; April 13, 2023

Encore! EP285: Who Is Auditing These Healthcare Bills? Also, That Cigna Lawsuit, With Dawn Cornelis, Cofounder and Director of Transparency at ClaimInformatics

30 mins; April 06, 2023

EP399: My Manifesto, Part 1: The Relentless Health Value Tribe, I Salute You.

11 mins; March 30, 2023

EP398: Why Is the Commercial Payer Marketplace in California Completely Boring? With Jacob Asher, MD

34 mins; March 23, 2023

EP397: The Minefield That Is a PBM Contract and Also Some Advice for EBCs Who Are Taking Money Under the Table, With Paul Holmes

33 mins; March 16, 2023

EP396: How to Answer This Question: Will Humira® Biosimilars Reduce Drug Spend? With Anna Hyde

33 mins; March 09, 2023

Encore! EP293: Game Theory Gone Wild: Co-pay Cards, Co-pay Accumulators, and Co-pay Maximizers, With Dea Belazi, PharmD, MPH, President and CEO of AscellaHealth

33 mins; March 02, 2023

EP395: Consolidated Hospital Systems and Cunning Anticompetitive Contracts, With Brennan Bilberry

35 mins; February 23, 2023

EP394: Spoiler Alert: It Is Counterintuitive Which Hospitals Offer the Most Charity Care, With Vikas Saini, MD, and Judith Garber

34 mins; February 16, 2023

EP393: How Do You Know if a Practice or a CIN (Clinically Integrated Network) Is Actually Clinically Integrated? With David Muhlestein, PhD, JD

31 mins; February 09, 2023

Encore! EP355: The 5 Business Models for Digital Health Companies, With Nikhil Krishnan

35 mins; February 02, 2023

EP392: When Patient Journeys Don't Fit in the EHR System, With Emily Kagan Trenchard From Northwell Health

31 mins; January 26, 2023

EP391: Lessons for Private Equity and Others Trying to Do Right by PCPs and Their Patients, With Scott Conard, MD

35 mins; January 19, 2023

EP390: What Legislators Need to Know About Hospital Prices, With Gloria Sachdev, PharmD, and Chris Skisak, PhD

34 mins; January 12, 2023

EP389: The Clapback When Hospitals Cannot Constrain Their Own Prices, With Mike Thompson

34 mins; January 05, 2023

Encore! EP326: The Unfortunate News About HRRP, With Insight Into How to Fix It, With Rishi Wadhera, MD, MPP

34 mins; December 29, 2022

Encore! EP356: PBMs React to GoodRx, Mark Cuban, and Amazon Pharmacy, With Ge Bai, PhD, CPA

36 mins; December 22, 2022

INBW37: Harnessing the Miracle of the Commons to Improve the Patient Journey Nationwide, A Conversation With Dave Dierk, Co-President of Aventria Health Group

24 mins; December 15, 2022

EP388: Merrill Goozner on the Future of Healthcare and Glide Paths to Get There

34 mins; December 08, 2022

EP387: Medicare Advantage Trends and How Medicare Advantage Plans Will or Will Not Succeed, With Betsy Seals, CEO and Cofounder of Rebellis Group

34 mins; December 01, 2022

INBW36: Will Healthcare Stakeholders Who Don't Collaborate Wind Up With a Business Problem?

19 mins; November 24, 2022

Encore! EP351: Everybody in the Healthcare Industry Getting Up in Everyone Else's Business, With Eric Bricker, MD

34 mins; November 16, 2022

EP386: What You Need to Know About ER Bills Post the No Surprises Act, With Al Lewis

32 mins; November 10, 2022

EP385: Morgan Health and the 5 Things Self-insured Employers Should Do Right Now, With Dan Mendelson

34 mins; November 03, 2022

EP384: How Shareholders Impact Payer Behavior, Exactly and Specifically, With Wendell Potter

36 mins; October 27, 2022

EP383: Direct Contracting as a Health System Business Strategy, With Nick Stefanizzi

32 mins; October 20, 2022

Encore! EP335: Why Private Equity Is Willing to Pay $55,000 per Patient to Primary Care Start-ups, With Brian Klepper, PhD

33 mins; October 13, 2022

EP382: Pharma Conflicts of Interest and the Anti-Kickback Statute, With Aaron Mitchell, MD, MPH

32 mins; October 06, 2022

EP381: For Reals, Becoming Customer-centric, Transforming, or Innovating at a Very Large Organization, With Karen Root

32 mins; September 29, 2022

EP380: 7 Big Reasons Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Actually Happened This Time Around—What Changed? With Mark Miller, PhD

33 mins; September 22, 2022

EP379: How Much Money, Really, Are Employee Benefit Consultants and/or Brokers Making From Plan Sponsors? With AJ Loiacono

35 mins; September 15, 2022

EP378: The Status of Telehealth Reimbursement and Other Telehealth Policy Updates, With Josh LaRosa, MPP

33 mins; September 08, 2022

INBW35: Collaboration Between Healthcare Providers, Payers, and Others Is Required to Improve Chronic Care Patient Outcomes

13 mins; September 01, 2022

Encore! EP295: The Not Entirely New but Definitely Improved Way to Measure Primary Care, With Rebecca Etz, PhD

31 mins; August 25, 2022

Encore! EP337: A Patient-First Specialty Pharmacy, Not a Money-First Specialty Pharmacy, With Olivia Webb

32 mins; August 18, 2022

EP377: Specialty Pharmacy, PBM, Hospital, Employer, and Pharma Strategic Maneuvering, With Mike Baldzicki, CRCM

32 mins; August 11, 2022

EP376: Interoperability—Who's Who and Doing What? With Lisa Bari, MBA, MPH

34 mins; August 04, 2022

EP375: Medicare Advantage Plans in the Hot Seat, With Betsy Seals, CEO and Cofounder of Rebellis Group

32 mins; July 28, 2022

EP374: How to Grade a Health Plan and a Few Validated Success Stories, With Dave Chase, Cofounder of Health Rosetta

35 mins; July 21, 2022

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