Relentless Health Value

Speaking of Infusions, Do You Want to Pay $135 or Do You Want to Pay $13,560 for the Exact Same Drug? With Ivana Krajcinovic, PhD. EP501

Feb 26, 2026

How a $135 Infusion Becomes a $13,560 Bill—and the Direct-Contracting Fix for It. Episode 501.

Ivana Krajcinovic, PhD, recently retired vice president for healthcare delivery at UNITE HERE HEALTH, a Taft-Hartley fund that purchases healthcare for over 200,000 unionized hospitality workers and their families, joins...

Why the Commercial Carrier Market Never Changes — Six Reasons There Is No Market

Feb 19, 2026

Six Reasons California’s Health Plan Market Share Never Changes, Year After Year. Take Two Episode 398.

In this Take Two rebroadcast with a new commentary, Stacey Richter revisits a conversation with Jacob Asher, MD, who spent 14 years as a health plan chief medical officer in California—first at Anthem, then Blue...

EP500: This Is Episode 500, and It’s All About You, Tribe

Feb 12, 2026

Ten Years, 500 Episodes, and the Listener Stories Proving Healthcare Can Change. Episode 500.

To mark 10 years and 500 episodes, Stacey Richter turns the mic over to the Relentless Health Value Tribe itself, playing voice messages and reading comments from listeners—benefits consultants, physicians, health system...

Self-insured Employers and Other Plan Sponsors Are Paying Millions for MSK (Musculoskeletal) Injuries That Would Have Healed Themselves, With Jay Kimmel, MD

Feb 5, 2026

The MSK “White Space”: How Triage-Before-the-Triage Could Cut Unnecessary Orthopedic Spend. Episode 499.

Jay Kimmel, MD, an orthopedic surgeon with over 35 years in practice and co-founder of Upswing Health, joins Stacey Richter to unpack the “white space” of musculoskeletal (MSK) care—the moment a member...