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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.

EP373: How to Kick a Big Hospital Out of Your Network, With Cora Opsahl

28 mins; July 14, 2022

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

33 mins; July 07, 2022

Encore! EP308: How Financial Toxicity Wreaks Havoc on Value-Based Payment Success, With Mark Fendrick, MD

35 mins; June 30, 2022

EP371: Buy and Bill vs Pharmacy Bagging—Which Is Better for a Plan Sponsor and Patients? With Erik Davis and Autumn Yongchu

32 mins; June 23, 2022

EP370: How Do Some Health Systems Manage to Charge 6x the Cost of a Specialty Pharmacy Med to Infuse It? With Erik Davis and Autumn Yongchu

31 mins; June 16, 2022

EP369: What's Up With Specialty Pharmacy Bagging? With Keith Hartman, RPh

33 mins; June 09, 2022

Encore! EP282: Do You Know How Much Cancer Centers Get Paid to Put Patients on Drugs? With Aaron Mitchell, MD, MPH

33 mins; June 02, 2022

INBW34: The Absence of Collaboration Between Healthcare Stakeholders: What It Means

19 mins; May 26, 2022

EP368: How to Successfully Roll Out New Benefit Designs to Employees and New Care Delivery Models at a Provider Organization, With Ashleigh Gunter

30 mins; May 19, 2022

EP367: Why Would a Hospital Direct Contract With an Employer Looking to Pay Less? With Doug Hetherington

33 mins; May 12, 2022

EP366: An In-Depth Dissection of Our Dysfunctional Healthcare Benefits Market, With Kevin Schulman, MD

32 mins; May 05, 2022

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

33 mins; April 28, 2022

EP364: A Way to Think About Transforming the Healthcare Industry, With David Muhlestein, PhD, JD

36 mins; April 21, 2022

EP363: How to Cut the Healthcare Administrative Burden in Half, With David Scheinker, PhD

32 mins; April 14, 2022

EP362: A CFO Talks About a Hybrid Business Model, With Ali Ucar

32 mins; April 07, 2022

EP361: The Gap in Closing Care Gaps, With Carly Eckert, MD

32 mins; March 31, 2022

EP360: How to Deliver Value-Based Care That Meets Value-Based Payment Objectives, With Jeb Dunkelberger

28 mins; March 24, 2022

EP359: Value-Based Payments—You Get What You Pay For, With Dan O'Neill

34 mins; March 17, 2022

EP358: How Health Insurance Plan Design Can Lead to Patients Sacrificing Needed Care, Their Mental Health, and (Sometimes) Buying Groceries, With Wayne Jenkins, MD

33 mins; March 10, 2022

EP357: Standing Up Telehealth That Actually Advances Providers' Core Business, With Liliana Petrova

34 mins; March 03, 2022

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

36 mins; February 24, 2022

EP355: The 5 Business Models of Digital Health Companies, With Nikhil Krishnan

35 mins; February 17, 2022

EP354: 7 Vital Success Factors to Stand Up a CIN (Clinically Integrated Network), With Shawn Rhodes

32 mins; February 10, 2022

EP353: What You Need to Know About Specialty Pharmacy Formularies and Rebating, With Pramod John, PhD

30 mins; February 03, 2022

EP352: Some Big Actionable Surprises About the Efficacy and Effectiveness of Specialty Pharmaceuticals, With Pramod John, PhD

28 mins; January 27, 2022

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

36 mins; January 20, 2022

EP350: Employers Direct Contracting With Hospitals, in Real Life, With Katy Talento

35 mins; January 13, 2022

INBW33: Thank You, and a Few Thoughts

14 mins; January 06, 2022

INBW32: The Ultimate Impact of Telehealth: A Thought Experiment

18 mins; December 30, 2021

Encore! EP294: Building a Center of Excellence: A Playbook for Physician Entrepreneurs, With Steve Schutzer, MD

33 mins; December 23, 2021

EP349: How Integrated Is a Clinically Integrated Network, Actually? With Lisa Trumble

31 mins; December 16, 2021

EP348: Your Burning Questions About Payviders Answered! With Jeb Dunkelberger

32 mins; December 09, 2021

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

34 mins; December 02, 2021

Encore! EP288: The "Big Three" PBMs Spinning Up GPOs—What? With Mike Schneider

29 mins; November 25, 2021

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

36 mins; November 18, 2021

EP345: Can Pharma Imagine How Our Health System Will Look in the Future? With Paul Simms

31 mins; November 11, 2021

EP344: The High Cost of Generic Drugs, With Steven Quimby, MD

33 mins; November 04, 2021

EP343: What Provider Leadership Teams Need to Know to Operationalize Value-Based Care, With David Carmouche, MD

30 mins; October 28, 2021

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

36 mins; October 21, 2021

EP341: How to Cut Administrative Waste AND Attract and Retain Doctors and Nurses, With Gary Campbell

32 mins; October 14, 2021

EP340: How Digital Front Doors Can Enable Value-Based Care, With Kristin Begley

32 mins; October 07, 2021

AEE17: Employers and Reference-Based Pricing—David Contorno's Latest Thinking

9 mins; October 05, 2021

EP339: Helping Employers Navigate the Perilous Medical-Industrial Complex, With David Contorno

30 mins; September 30, 2021

EP338: Ideas to Meet Rural Healthcare's Tough Challenges, With Nikki King, DHA

34 mins; September 23, 2021

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

32 mins; September 16, 2021

EP336: The Barbarians at the Gate—Who Are They and How Do They Cause Trouble for the Healthcare Industry Status Quo? With Brandon Weber

32 mins; September 09, 2021

INBW30: A Hot Take on Healthcare Stakeholders Not Collaborating

7 mins; September 02, 2021

AEE16: The Destruction of Primary Care—A Short History, With Brian Klepper, PhD

9 mins; August 31, 2021

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

33 mins; August 26, 2021

EP334: Do Consumers Ditch High-Cost Providers After Shopping With Price Transparency Tools? With Sunita Desai, PhD

33 mins; August 19, 2021

EP333: Actually Using Care Plans in the Real World, With (in Order of Appearance) Jeff Hogan, Darrell Moon, Dr. Grace Terrell, Dr. Rich Klasco, Nicole Bradberry, and Kelly Conroy

18 mins; August 12, 2021

EP332: A New OS for Provider Organizations—The Patient-Centered Value System (PCVS), With Tony DiGioia, MD

32 mins; August 05, 2021

EP331: Employers Buyer Beware! Six Tricks Wellness and Point-solution Vendors Use to Overstate Their Results, With Al Lewis, Cofounder and CEO of Quizzify

32 mins; July 29, 2021

EP330: What Is Going On Over at Health Systems? With John Marchica, CEO at Darwin Research Group

31 mins; July 22, 2021

EP329: Virtual-First Health Care Solutions—Their Promise and a Few Outstanding Questions, With Joe Connolly From Visana Health

29 mins; July 15, 2021

EP328: An Interview Specifically for Health Care Executives, With Marshall Allen, Author of the Best Seller Never Pay the First Bill: And Other Ways to Fight the Health Care System and Win

42 mins; July 08, 2021

ENCORE EP 263 - The Start-up Who Won Medicare's AI Contest, Beating Out IBM, Deloitte, and Mayo—A Conversation With Andrew Eye

32 mins; July 01, 2021

EP327: Pharma Hooking Up With Start-ups, With Naomi Fried, PhD, About PharmStars™

32 mins; June 24, 2021

EP326: The Unfortunate News About HRRP, With Insights on How to Fix It, With Rishi Wadhera, MD, MPP

37 mins; June 17, 2021

EP325: The Show in Which Dr. Mai Pham Disagrees With Three of My Value-Based Care Premises

37 mins; June 10, 2021

EP324: ACOs (Accountable Care Organizations): Do They, in Fact, Improve the Quality of Care and Reduce Costs? With Nicole Bradberry and Kelly Conroy

33 mins; June 03, 2021

Encore! EP244: A Playbook for Jumbo Employers—or Providers, Consultants, Carriers, or Pharma Who Get Paid by Jumbo Employers, With Lee Lewis, Chief Strategy Officer at the Health Transformation Alliance

30 mins; May 27, 2021

EP323: A Short Take on Digital Tools Purporting to Maximize Throughput, With Arshad Rahim, MD, MBA, FACP, of Mount Sinai Health System

18 mins; May 20, 2021

EP322: Cherry Picking, Lemon Dropping, and Other Learnings for Value-Based Care Models, With Monica Lypson, MD, MHPE

30 mins; May 13, 2021

EP321: How to Point Out Low-Value Care Without Starting a Fistfight, With Rich Klasco, MD

29 mins; May 06, 2021

AEE15: A Sidebar Conversation About the Importance and Challenges for Health Systems to Collaborate With Pharma Manufacturers, With David Carmouche, MD, From Ochsner, a Large Health System

5 mins; May 04, 2021

EP320: Is Telehealth vs In-Person Care Like Some Kind of Winner-Takes-All Cage Fight? With Christian Milaster From Ingenium

30 mins; April 29, 2021

EP319: How Do We Improve Outcomes in Skilled Nursing and Also Assisted Living Facilities? With Grace Terrell, MD

30 mins; April 22, 2021

EP318: A Primer for Pharma Looking to Collaborate With Health Systems, From the Point of View of Troy Larsgard, a Pharmaceutical Category Manager at Johns Hopkins

28 mins; April 15, 2021

EP317: Wait, the Latest Action on Drug Pricing Reform Can Be Found in the Infrastructure Bill? With Josh LaRosa, MPP, Policy Director, Wynne Health Group

26 mins; April 08, 2021

EP316: Unexpectedly Talking About Employers, With David Carmouche, MD, From Ochsner, a Large Health System

22 mins; April 01, 2021

EP315: The Very Unsexy Essential for Technology to Drive Outcomes That Nobody Talks About, With Bob Matthews

31 mins; March 25, 2021

AEE14: A Short Lesson for Self-insured Employers: Dr. Doug Eby Gives Some Advice That Everybody Should Hear Who Is Interested in Improving Outcomes and Lowering Costs, With Douglas Eby, MD, MPH, CPE

8 mins; March 23, 2021

EP314: Why Do SNF (Skilled Nursing Facility) Patients Need Two Pharmacies and a PBM? Following the Kinda Long Long-term Care Pharmaceutical Supply Chain, With Sheldon Weiss, MD

28 mins; March 18, 2021

EP313: Partnering Up With Fiercely Local and Fiercely Independent Pharmacies, With Dan Strause and Drew Leatherberry

29 mins; March 11, 2021

EP312: Radically Improving Population Health: Listen and Learn From One of Our Country's Best-Kept Secrets, With Douglas Eby, MD, MPH, CPE

33 mins; March 04, 2021

EP311: How Aging in Place Becomes a Business Problem for FFS Providers, With Sumit Nagpal

29 mins; March 02, 2021

AEE13: Have You Ever Wondered How GoodRx Makes Money? With Ge Bai, PhD, CPA

8 mins; March 02, 2021

EP310: The 2020 Shkreli Awards for the Worst Examples of Profiteering and Dysfunction in Health Care, With Vikas Saini, MD, and Shannon Brownlee

30 mins; February 18, 2021

EP309: FFS Providers Getting Locked Out of Referral Flows, Right Now, As We Speak, With Jeff Hogan

31 mins; February 11, 2021

EP308: At Least Two Surprising Insights About Value-Based Care, With Mark Fendrick, MD

34 mins; February 04, 2021

EP307: The Surprise Billing Legislation: Its Impact on Providers, Hospitals, Self-insured Employers, and (Most of All) Patients, With Loren Adler

33 mins; January 28, 2021

EP306: A Deep Dive Into Amazon's Pharmacy and the Amazon Pharmacy Model Some Employers Are Running With, With Ge Bai, PhD, CPA

30 mins; January 21, 2021

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

32 mins; January 14, 2021

AEE12: Steve Blumberg and I Discuss the 2020 Humana Value-based Care Report

7 mins; January 12, 2021

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

27 mins; January 07, 2021

Encore! EP216: How Medicare Part D Plans Became Addicted to Drug Rebates, With Chris Sloan From Avalere Health

31 mins; December 31, 2020

Encore! EP231: Pharmaceutical Contracting, PBMs, Pharmacies, Employers, and the Latest HHS Rebate Proposal, With AJ Loiacono, CEO of Capital Rx

37 mins; December 24, 2020

INBW29: The Secret to Transforming Our Health Care System Revealed—A Summary of the Wisdom of Relentless Health Value Guests in 2020

25 mins; December 17, 2020

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

29 mins; December 10, 2020

EP302: The Gigantic Problem I Have With Talk About Telehealth, With Blake McKinney, MD, From CirrusMD

31 mins; December 03, 2020

Encore! EP206: Turns Out, High‑Deductible Plans Do Not Drive High‑Quality, Cost‑Effective Care, With Ashok Subramanian, CEO and Founder of Centivo

32 mins; November 26, 2020

EP301: What Is Up With the Hospital and Payer Transparency Rules From CMS Now and Also After January 20? With Jeff Leibach, MBA

33 mins; November 19, 2020

EP300: Getting the Right Drugs Developed and Thinking Different About How to Pay for Them, With Bruce Rector, MD

31 mins; November 12, 2020

EP299: FFS (Fee for Service) Is a Whole Business Model—It's Not Just a Way to Get Paid, With Alan Kaplan, MD, MBA, Assistant Professor of Urology at Georgetown University and a Practicing Urologist

31 mins; November 05, 2020

EP298: The Intersection of Value-Based Payments and Behavioral Health—Also, the Rise of Telepsychiatry, With Don Fowls, MD

32 mins; October 29, 2020

EP297: How the Front Desk Can Make or Break Patient Trust and, Potentially, Outcomes, With Jerry Durham From The Client Experience Company

33 mins; October 22, 2020

EP296: Oncology FAQs About Telehealth, Standardizing Care, and Drug Prices, With Vincent Rajkumar, MD, of Mayo Clinic, Rochester

33 mins; October 15, 2020

EP295: Surprising Insights About Measuring Primary Care Performance, With Rebecca Etz, PhD

32 mins; October 08, 2020

EP294: Building a Center of Excellence: A Playbook for Physician Entrepreneurs, With Steve Schutzer, MD

32 mins; October 01, 2020

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