Sep 30, 2021

In Episode 339, Stacey Richter talks with David Contorno, founder of E Powered Benefits, about helping employers navigate what he calls the perilous medical-industrial complex. David walks through the road map self-insured employers can follow to lower total healthcare spend by 20% to 40% in the first year —...

Sep 23, 2021

In Episode 338, Stacey Richter talks with Nikki King, DHA, about ideas to meet rural healthcare’s toughest challenges. Nikki offers three community-centric ideas: freestanding ERs with the financial discipline not to take advantage of the communities they serve, telehealth that actually accounts for broadband access,...

Sep 16, 2021

In Episode 337, Stacey Richter talks with Olivia Webb, PharmD, author of the Acute Condition newsletter, about what it would take to build a “patient-first specialty pharmacy” — one dedicated not just to giving patients a decent experience but to actually improving outcomes, in a system where the patient is...

Sep 9, 2021

In Episode 336, Stacey Richter talks with Brandon Weber, cofounder and CEO of Nava, about the “barbarians at the gate” of the healthcare industry — the scale of capital and human capital now flowing into disruption, and why the platform companies and collaborative ecosystems quietly building underneath...

Sep 2, 2021

In this In Between episode, Stacey Richter shares a hot take on why healthcare stakeholders need to collaborate with organizations across the care continuum — even the ones they have a problem with — and how fragmentation of care is directly tied to higher costs and lower quality.

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN

✅ Why the US...