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Jun 1, 2023

I’m gonna run through the five reasons Lauren Vela talks about in this healthcare podcast for the “why” with the inertia in benefits departments of self-insured employers. But before I do, let me report that, in sum, they add up to … in many cases, benefits folks sit between a rock and a hard place.

You really...


May 25, 2023

So, let’s talk about North Carolina. What a weird outlier of the direction of other states getting active on their healthcare spend. I’m talking about Texas, Indiana, Wisconsin ... I’m naming so-called red states because the legislature in North Carolina is a Republican majority.

Gotta say, normally I’m down for...


May 18, 2023

Let’s cut to the chase. You’ve gotten to the point where you have a gang of physicians/clinicians/physician practices who have expressed a desire to work together. What do you need to know right now?

Eric Gallagher, CEO of the Ochsner Health Network, is my guest in this healthcare podcast; and I largely asked him...


May 11, 2023

So much of this episode (and this podcast as a whole, really) is about one consistent theme: How do we reset or redesign our healthcare industry, including hospital chains—mostly talking about the big consolidated ones that have a lot of money here—but how do we redesign these leviathans to be more consistent with...


May 4, 2023

This is a conversation about physician compensation, which is often oddly misaligned from the way that the whole physician or provider organization is getting paid.

Now, first thing to point out: There are lots of different kinds of physicians doing all kinds of different things. As with most everything in healthcare,...