Oct 27, 2022

How Shareholders Impact Payer Behavior, Exactly and Specifically, With Wendell Potter. A Former Insurance Insider Explains How Wall Street Pressure Shapes What Payers Actually Do. Episode 384.

Stacey Richter talks with Wendell Potter, a former health insurance communications executive turned whistleblower and founder of...

Oct 20, 2022

Direct Contracting as a Health System Business Strategy, With Nick Stefanizzi. Why Health Systems Are Direct Contracting With Employers—and What Could Go Wrong. Episode 383.

Stacey Richter talks with Nick Stefanizzi, CEO of Northwell Direct, about how health systems can offer employers roughly 20% savings by direct...

Oct 13, 2022

Why Private Equity Is Willing to Pay $55,000 per Patient to Primary Care Start-ups, With Brian Klepper, PhD (Encore! EP335)

In this Encore, Stacey Richter revisits her conversation with Brian Klepper, PhD, healthcare analyst and principal of Worksite Health Advisors, about the three iterations of primary care today...

Oct 6, 2022

Pharma Conflicts of Interest and the Anti-Kickback Statute, With Aaron Mitchell, MD, MPH. Even a Free Lunch Can Skew a Doctor’s Prescribing—What the Anti-Kickback Statute Does and Doesn’t Catch. Episode 382.

Stacey Richter talks with Aaron Mitchell, MD, MPH, a medical oncologist and health services researcher at...