Aug 12, 2026

John Quinn, founder and CEO of Wellnecity, joins Stacey Richter for an outtake from their conversation last fall on rethinking how self-insured employers build their provider networks. Rather than treating the network as one big, undifferentiated system, Quinn argues employers should think like a manufacturing supply...

Aug 5, 2026

Why Self-Insured Employers and Clinicians Keep Missing Each Other, With Suhas Gondi, MD. The Sleeping Giants of Healthcare: Why Employers and Clinicians Keep Missing Each Other. Episode 523.

Dr. Suhas Gondi, MD, MBA, chief medical officer at Health Strategy and an attending physician at Massachusetts General Hospital,...

Jul 29, 2026

Ask Me Anything: How Does GoodRx Actually Make Money, and Who Really Pays for the Discount? Episode 522.

A listener asked Stacey Richter a deceptively simple question: how exactly does GoodRx make money? To answer it, this AMA episode revisits a 2021 conversation with Ge Bai, PhD, CPA, professor of accounting at the...

Jul 22, 2026

RCM: Why Revenue Cycle Management Is Healthcare’s $200B Hot Potato, With Andrew Tsang (EP521)

How Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) Became an Over $200 Billion Healthcare Hot Potato. Episode 521.

Revenue cycle management (RCM) sounds like the least sexy phrase in healthcare — a back-office spreadsheet problem. It...

Jul 15, 2026

Cash-Pay Generic Drugs and the PBM Spread Pricing Problem (EP520)

Cash-pay generic drugs are one of the few corners of US healthcare where a real, functioning market already exists — which is why Stacey Richter argues policymakers need to tread carefully when trying to “fix” drug affordability. In this solo...