May 25, 2023

So, let’s talk about North Carolina. What a weird outlier of the direction of other states getting active on their healthcare spend. I’m talking about Texas, Indiana, Wisconsin ... I’m naming so-called red states because the legislature in North Carolina is a Republican majority.

Gotta say, normally I’m down for...

May 18, 2023

Let’s cut to the chase. You’ve gotten to the point where you have a gang of physicians/clinicians/physician practices who have expressed a desire to work together. What do you need to know right now?

Eric Gallagher, CEO of the Ochsner Health Network, is my guest in this healthcare podcast; and I largely asked him...

May 11, 2023

So much of this episode (and this podcast as a whole, really) is about one consistent theme: How do we reset or redesign our healthcare industry, including hospital chains—mostly talking about the big consolidated ones that have a lot of money here—but how do we redesign these leviathans to be more consistent with...

May 4, 2023

This is a conversation about physician compensation, which is often oddly misaligned from the way that the whole physician or provider organization is getting paid.

Now, first thing to point out: There are lots of different kinds of physicians doing all kinds of different things. As with most everything in healthcare,...

Apr 27, 2023

So, let me just cut to the chase here with very little preamble, and all of this is a setup to the interview that follows, although it is not really what the interview that follows is all about. A mentor of mine used to say, you can’t legislate the heart. Let me also suggest you can’t give someone in...