Relentless Health Value

A Back-to-Basics Roadmap Through the Perverse Incentives to Advanced Primary Care, With Ryan Jacobs (EP504)

Mar 26, 2026

Why Evidence-Backed Primary Care Still Can’t Scale, and a 3-Step Roadmap to Get Around It. Episode 504.

Why isn’t advanced primary care (APC) everywhere, if the evidence for it is this strong? Stacey Richter talks with Ryan Jacobs, SVP of Strategy and Partnerships at Marathon Health, about the two root causes...

Insights to Outwit the Hot Mess of the Non-Healthcare Market (INBW46)

Mar 19, 2026

Listener Insights on Better Decisions, Price Transparency, and PBM Spread Pricing Tricks. Why “Insight Is Common, Execution Is Rare” Is the Whole Game in Fixing Healthcare. Episode INBW46.

In this inbetweenisode, Stacey Richter spotlights two Relentless Tribe members whose LinkedIn posts crystallized something...

From Lazy PPO Networks to Smart Collaboration — A Roadmap for Direct-to-Employer Specialty Care

Mar 12, 2026

Direct-to-Employer Specialty Care and Centers of Excellence 3.0, With Ryan Wells, Leo Spector, MD, and Adam Stavisky Why Self-Insured Employers and Specialists Need to Start Talking Directly Instead of Through a Lazy Middle. Episode 503.

Self-insured employers and the specialists who actually deliver care sit on...

How Some Pretty Wild Medicare Fraud Sabotages ACOs and Also Independent Practices and Could Cost Plan Sponsors Such as Self-insured Employers a Lot of Zeros Downstream, With Brian Machut. (EP502)

Mar 5, 2026

Why $3.5 Billion in Fake Catheters and an Even Bigger Skin Substitute Grift End Up Costing Self-Insured Employers Too. Episode 502.

Hackers are using stolen medical data to bill CMS for catheters and other durable medical equipment that patients never actually received—and that’s just one piece of a fraud scheme...