Jul 25, 2024

Tom X. Lee, MD — who founded One Medical and Epocrates and now leads Galileo — joins Stacey Richter to answer a question so many primary care leaders are asking: can a primary-care-only practice actually survive in 2024? Dr. Lee names what he calls the “paradox of primary care” — the fact that the most common...

Jul 18, 2024

This encore revisits one of the most popular episodes of 2023. Paul Holmes, an ERISA attorney who has spent nearly 40 years specializing in PBM (pharmacy benefit manager) contracts, joins Stacey Richter to explain why signing a PBM’s standard model contract without independent review typically costs a...

Jul 11, 2024

Certificate of Need (CON) laws and Certificates of Public Advantage (COPA) laws are two state-level attempts to control healthcare costs and competition — and, as is often the case with well-intentioned policy, the results in practice haven’t matched the intent. Ann Kempski, an independent health policy...

Jul 4, 2024

This episode is dedicated to Marshall Allen, the investigative journalist and founder of Allen Health Academy, who passed away in May 2024. Dave Chase, founder of Health Rosetta, joins Stacey Richter to share reflections on Marshall’s decade-plus of accountability journalism — including the yearlong...