Relentless Health Value

EP416: Why Should Med Schools Teach the Business of Medicine? With Adam Brown, MD, MBA

Oct 26, 2023

Ten years and $200,000 to $300,000 in real dollars — that’s roughly what it costs to become a physician, and yet most medical schools teach almost nothing about how the business of medicine actually works. In this episode, Stacey Richter talks with Adam Brown, MD, MBA, a board-certified ER physician and founder of...

EP415: Some Jumbo Employers Buying Better Healthcare Outcomes While Saving 15% on Total Cost of Care, With Rob Andrews

Oct 19, 2023

“Morally abhorrent doesn’t move the needle. What moves the needle is financial implications.” That’s the line from Rob Andrews that got Stacey Richter chasing this interview. In this episode, Stacey talks with Andrews, CEO of the Health Transformation Alliance (HTA) — an alliance of more than 60 jumbo...

EP414: An IRL How-To for Delivering Better Care and Getting Paid for It—A Value-Based Case Study, With Justina Lehman

Oct 12, 2023

Most conversations about value-based care happen at 50,000 feet. This one is much closer to the ground: a real, step-by-step how-to for how a specialist practice — an OB/GYN group, an orthopedic practice, whoever — can actually deliver coordinated, value-based care and get paid for doing it. In this episode, Stacey...

EP413: The Intersection of Healthcare Waste, Value-Based Care, and the Potential Rising Power of PCPs, With Will Shrank, MD

Oct 5, 2023

Estimates suggest the US healthcare system wastes upward of a trillion dollars a year, split across two broad categories: administrative failures (fraud/waste/abuse, administrative complexity, pricing failures) and clinical failures (care coordination, care delivery, and low-value care). In this episode, Stacey Richter...