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Let's Fix Healthcare Together

Relentless Health Value (RHV) is the largest weekly healthcare industry podcast reaching senior healthcare decision makers. This includes executives working for payer, provider, pharmacy, pharma, and health tech organizations. We also reach investors plus a growing number of employer CFOs and benefits professionals, including benefits professionals making decisions for state and city health plans.

Our listeners—the Relentless Tribe—all have one thing in common: a desire to put patients over profits and do well by doing good. We are a tribe of like-minded individuals on a relentless mission to improve healthcare in this country.

Listen to Relentless Health Value weekly to join the Tribe and connect with others trying to manage the quadruple play: to provide healthcare value and patient satisfaction while being personally and professionally fulfilled.

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Relentless Health Value is (although not officially) a non-profit endeavor. We get a lot of satisfaction from helping those in the healthcare industry help Americans get better healthcare. But putting out a podcast like Relentless Health Value is expensive, and we are bearing this financial cost ourselves.

Our audience is full of movers and shakers, so if you would love to reach our Relentless Health Value tribe please see our sponsorship opportunities page.

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Must Listen Healthcare Podcast!

Relentless Health Value is the #1 podcast for anyone wanting to be part of the solution to fixing healthcare and insurance. MD to Insurance broker will find value in being part of the RHV tribe. No one person has all the answers, but Stacey Richter has allowed listeners and guests to collectively move the conversat...

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Why This NYC Nurse Trusts Relentless Health Value

As a nurse who’s spent over 13 years on the front lines of New York City’s healthcare scene, I know authenticity when I see it—and let me tell you, "Relentless Health Value" and host Stacey Richter are the real deal. She doesn’t just interview guests—she ignites conversations that challenge the status quo. Through fea...

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Detailed yet understandable

Relentless Health Value is a must listen podcast - somehow dives deep while simultaneously summarizing at a basic level.

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A must listen if you’re in the business of healthcare

This is the most valuable business podcast I have found about the details and complexity of the business of the U.S. healthcare industry and its operations and financing. I’ve been in the business over 20 years and I’m still learning new things from this podcast. Expert guests who are interviewed by a knowledgeable...

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Highly Informative and Thought Provoking

Thank you for you work. It is evident that this podcast is a passion project. The topics, material and guests are all highly relevant and spot on. It reminds me of Freakonomics. I’m obsessed.

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Helped me revamp my self-insured company’s insurance program

I’m the CEO of a large senior living company who has always geeked out on Medicare payment innovation, but was always bored and disengaged from our own health insurance spend on a self- funded plan. It wasn’t until I listened to several episodes of relentless health value that were focused towards c-suite audiences tha...

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A Must Listen

There are just a few podcasts that I listen to religiously. RelenetlessHealthValue is one of those. Stacey is a very inquisitive interviewer and subject matter expert on how the entire healthcare ecosystem functions (or does not function). She has a knack of finding the brightest of the bright and asking the right ...

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Great stuff

Thank you for your work!!

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Stacey Richter: The Absolute Expert on 'Bottom Up' Healthcare

If you can't find time to listen to the whole episode (even though it's a must for important details), just listen to Stacey's super informative and beautifully crafted summary at the beginning of each show. You'll know absolutely everything about U.S. healthcare from "bottom up": PBMs, ASOs, ACA, Medicare, value-based...

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EP476: Talking Whistleblowing and the Pharma Rebates Whistleblower Case With an Actual Whistleblower, With Ann Lewandowski

Alright, first off, let me calm down any attorneys right outta the gate here. We will not be talking about—at all—the legal activity that is currently ongoing that my guest today, Ann Lewandowski, is involved with. The suit mostly on our radar today is the one where an EBC (employee benefit consult...

EP475: Is This a Moment or a Movement? With Peter Hayes
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EP475: Is This a Moment or a Movement? With Peter Hayes

I was talking to Peter Hayes, my guest this week; and I said, “Peter, you post a lot about many, many different topics on LinkedIn and elsewhere. If you had to roll up all of your posts into a few main, I don’t know, change-making vectors or forces of change, roads to Damascus, what would they be? ...

EP474: Private Equity in Healthcare—The Big Data Points You Really Need to Know, All Together in One Episode, With Yashaswini Singh, PhD
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EP474: Private Equity in Healthcare—The Big Data Points You Really Need to Know, All Together in One Episode, With Yashaswini Singh, PhD

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EP473: Keeping Patients out of the ER: How Trusted Relationships in Primary Care Should Work. A Take 2 With Kenny Cole, MD

I’m revisiting, in a take two, this episode with Dr. Kenny Cole because I’m listening to it this time with a new focus. That focus is the theme that keeps coming up over and over and over again on Relentless Health Value these past few months. For a full transcript of this episode, click here . If ...

EP472: The Well-Honed, Three-Prong Hospital Playbook to Maximize Revenue From High-Cost Claimants, With Eric Bricker, MD
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EP472: The Well-Honed, Three-Prong Hospital Playbook to Maximize Revenue From High-Cost Claimants, With Eric Bricker, MD

For a full transcript of this episode, click here . So, let’s continue themes from prior episodes, most particularly the episode from last week with Christine Hale, MD, MBA ( EP471 ), which was also about high-cost claimants and just the impact that they have on the wallets of self-insured employer...

EP471: High-Cost Claimants in 2025 and Beyond—What Is Really Expensive Not to Know? With Christine Hale, MD, MBA
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EP471: High-Cost Claimants in 2025 and Beyond—What Is Really Expensive Not to Know? With Christine Hale, MD, MBA

Recently on Relentless Health Value, we’ve been tinkering around with a few recurring themes—recurring through lines—that are just true about American healthcare these days. For a full transcript of this episode, click here . If you enjoy this podcast, be sure to subscribe to the free weekly newsle...

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EP470: Continuing the ER and Primary Care Through Line Over to Rural Hospitals and Healthcare, With Nikki King, DHA

So, the show today, it’s sort of an encore but not really an encore because I recorded this whole new introduction that you are currently listening to. And I also did a few inserts that we popped into the show itself. Inserts from the future, you might say. For a full transcript of this episode, cl...

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