Jul 29, 2021

In this episode, host Stacey Richter interviews Al Lewis, founder and “quizmeister-in-chief” of Quizzify, about the misleading tactics wellness and point-solution vendors use to inflate their cost savings claims. They explore statistical tricks like regression to the mean, flawed participant comparisons,...

Jul 22, 2021

In this health care podcast, I’m interviewing John Marchica, who is the CEO at Darwin Research Group.

Starting last year in the middle of the worst of the COVID pandemic, Darwin Research Group conducted a study about what was going on at health systems or integrated delivery networks (IDNs), and they’ve updated it...

Jul 15, 2021

In a recent article in STAT news, TJ Parker, the VP of pharmacy at Amazon and the founder of PillPack, explained that Amazon’s plan to stand out in the pharmacy space is simple: “Better selection, better convenience, and better prices.” He added, “It really is the Amazon playbook.” 

Better selection, better...

Jul 8, 2021

“Scientists Announce Successful Experiment to Bankrupt Mouse That Can’t Afford Cancer Drug.” That’s a recent headline from The Onion, which is, by the way, a funny satire newspaper, if you haven’t heard of it. You could swap out “Cancer Drug” in that headline with “a Trip to the ER”—or pretty much...

Jul 1, 2021

If I had a nickel for every guest on this show who went on to achieve wild success … TJ Parker from PillPack three years before they were bought by Amazon. Anyway, let me introduce this show with a clip from the recent podcast (EP325) with Dr. Mai Pham. We were talking about the rampant and very open secret of...