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Apr 28, 2022

One of my mentors often said price is irrelevant. He said he would sell anything for any price as long as he could define the terms of the deal. During this conversation today with Scott Haas about PBMs, that quote was playing in my head like an earworm.

I’m henceforth gonna struggle with the term rebate to define...


Apr 21, 2022

In this healthcare podcast, we’re gonna zoom out and look at the entire healthcare industry. I am very confident that you know a lot about the healthcare industry and its basic stats. It’s huge. The healthcare industry is approaching the $4 trillion mark, and it employs more people than any other industry in 47...


Apr 14, 2022

Administrative costs in the United States have a bad rap. You don’t have to look too far to find an article about how there’s now, like, 10 administrators for every 1 physician in this country. Or 3 to 4 billing people for every physician. Or find someone complaining about arduous prior auth processes and how...


Apr 7, 2022

Let’s talk about provider organizations and telehealth. It’s just too common a refrain amongst provider organizations who say some combination of:

  • Our patients and/or clinicians don’t like telehealth.
  • Telehealth is too expensive for us to do ... unless maybe we should charge facility fees for telehealth...