Aug 31, 2021

This conversation starts out talking about the RUC, which is a committee run by the AMA, who has the sole source contract with CMS to figure out how many RVUs any given procedure or service is worth. There are roughly four times as many specialists on this RUC committee as PCPs. You might be able to see where this is...

Aug 26, 2021

In this healthcare podcast, I’m talking with Brian Klepper. If you haven’t heard of him, Brian’s a longtime healthcare analyst and former CEO of the National Business Coalition on Health.

This interview takes off like a shot, as most of my conversations with Brian Klepper do. We’re talking about primary care and...

Aug 19, 2021

In this episode, host Stacey Richter speaks with Sunita Desai, PhD, a health economist and assistant professor at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, about the real-world impact of price transparency in healthcare. They break down the intended progression from transparency to consumerism to lower costs and higher quality...

Aug 12, 2021

In this episode, host Stacey Richter engages with a panel of experts—including Jeff Hogan, Darrell Moon, Dr. Grace Terrell, Dr. Rich Klasco, Nicole Bradberry, and Kelly Conroy—to discuss the practical implementation of care plans in real-world settings.

The conversation delves into the challenges and successes of...

Aug 5, 2021

In most other industries, it’s the customer who consumes the services and engages with the purveyor of services. In health care, not so much. Legacy health care has evolved to honor the insurance carrier as the customer or, in some cases, the fancy surgeon or other driver of revenue as the customer. Listen to the...