Dec 28, 2023

Electronic health records were purpose-built for billing — some have called them glorified cash registers — which means the vast majority of a person’s health-relevant life never gets captured anywhere. Stacey Richter re-airs this conversation after attending both the NODE (Network of Digital Evidence) conference...

Dec 21, 2023

“You cannot make smart … decisions and be a fiduciary of a fund without having data,” as Cora Opsahl, director of the 32BJ Health Fund, puts it. Stacey Richter is re-airing this conversation because it’s the missing prerequisite behind nearly everything discussed on this show lately — the recent episodes with...

Dec 14, 2023

“It’s not a big mystery in the US economy that people do what you pay them to do,” as Rob Andrews put it on this show a few weeks back (EP415). Stacey Richter opens this episode with his framing of maternal health’s broken incentives — where a hospital system profits from a full NICU and carriers make the same...

Dec 7, 2023

Cash-pay generic drugs sound like a fringe idea until you look at the numbers: for patients in their deductible phase, paying cash beats the price their PBM “negotiated” 79% of the time. Following on directly from last week’s conversation about the financialization of health benefits (EP419), Stacey Richter...

Nov 30, 2023

Are you on the board of directors of a company? A shareholder of a publicly traded one? A CEO or CFO who reports to a board? This episode is for you. Following up on last week’s conversation with Mark Cuban (EP418), Stacey Richter talks with Andreas Mang, senior managing director and CEO of Equity Healthcare at...