Aug 31, 2021

In this An Expert Explains episode, Stacey Richter talks with Brian Klepper, PhD, longtime healthcare analyst and former CEO of the National Business Coalition on Health, about the RUC — the AMA-run committee with a sole-source CMS contract to decide how many RVUs any given procedure is worth — and how...

Aug 26, 2021

In Episode 335, Stacey Richter talks with Brian Klepper, PhD, longtime healthcare analyst and former CEO of the National Business Coalition on Health, about why private equity is willing to pay as much as $55,000 per patient to primary care start-ups — and the three distinct flavors of primary care operating today,...

Aug 19, 2021

In Episode 334, Stacey Richter talks with Sunita Desai, PhD, health economist at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, about whether price transparency tools actually drive consumers to lower-cost providers — and the barriers standing between price transparency and the consumerism it’s supposed to enable.

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Aug 12, 2021

In Episode 333, Stacey Richter revisits the topic of actually using care plans in the real world, drawing on clips from past guests — Jeff Hogan, Darrell Moon, Grace Terrell, MD, Rich Klasco, MD, Nicole Bradberry, and Kelly Conroy — to explore why patients with the exact same clinical needs often walk away with...

Aug 5, 2021

In Episode 332, Stacey Richter talks with Tony DiGioia, MD, orthopedic surgeon at UPMC and developer of the Patient Centered Value System (PCVS), about building a new operating system for provider organizations — one that traces the entire patient journey from the very first interaction to the very last and designs...