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American Healthcare Executives You Might Want to Know. Talking.

Relentless Health Value is one of the most listened to weekly healthcare industry podcasts. The show has been hosted by Stacey Richter since 2014. A dynamic healthcare entrepreneur and innovator, Stacey has spent more than 20 years mentoring and working with clients and colleagues in all parts of the healthcare industry. Subscribe to the podcast and spend half an hour with us every Thursday.

Relentless Health Value is the show that connects you with other healthcare leaders trying to achieve the quadruple aim of improving population health and patient and provider experience, while managing costs effectively. Our mission is to help transform healthcare by breaking down silos and connecting disconnected parts of our industry. The first step toward collaboration is simply knowing what others are working on and wrestling to overcome.

Relentless Health Value is for business leaders working in insurance carrier and provider organizations, including IDNs, CINs, and IPAs. The show also connects pharma, medical device, patient advocacy, employer benefits professionals and other healthcare businesses. It’s an ideal resource for health industry innovators and entrepreneurs or aspiring entrepreneurs who strive to improve healthcare every day.

We all know the healthcare business is not, and has never been, an easy business. The barrier to entry is often high; the cost of doing business, equally high. Success is often a frustrating tangle of regulations, litigation risks, perverse incentives, and technology requirements.

However, those of us not daunted by the challenge can thrive in these times of great change. Payment reform has reset incentives—value over volume. Healthcare value has become more than an intellectual talking point. It is now a business imperative. We’re in an era of evolution and disruption. And while change breeds pain, it also is the genie of great opportunity.

Let’s get inspired. Let’s talk to healthcare leaders and innovators who are making waves in our industry and who can inspire us. Let’s hear from the boisterous and from those who are quietly achieving greatness. Let’s support those who can turn disjointed healthcare services into value-based systems. Finally, let’s join healthcare builders and disrupters who share our goals to reorder the healthcare universe.

Everyone working in the healthcare industry has a story to tell.


Stacey RichterStacey Richter
Host of Relentless Health Value

When not hosting the show, Stacey is co-president of Aventria Health Group, a marketing agency and consultancy. Aventria specializes in helping pharmaceutical, employer, pharmacy, and health system clients improve patient outcomes by creating and leveraging collaborations with other healthcare organizations. For more than 20 years, Stacey has innovated better-coordinated health solutions benefiting all stakeholders and, most of all, the patient.


Sponsorship Opportunities


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.

Recent Episodes

EP445: Can a Primary-Care-Only Practice Survive in 2024? With Tom X. Lee, MD
July 25, 2024
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EP445: Can a Primary-Care-Only Practice Survive in 2024? With Tom X. Lee, MD

In this healthcare podcast, I am talking with Tom X. Lee, MD, who has a long history in primary care. He founded One Medical and then also, most recently, Galileo. Dr. Lee also was a founder at Epocrates (tossing that in for context). For a full transcript of this episode, click here . If you enjoy...

Encore! EP397: The Minefield That Is a PBM Contract and Also Some Advice for EBCs Who Are Taking Money Under the Table, With Paul Holmes
July 18, 202434:1531.35 MB

Encore! EP397: The Minefield That Is a PBM Contract and Also Some Advice for EBCs Who Are Taking Money Under the Table, With Paul Holmes

Today is an encore because I am going on vacation next week. It always feels a little bit like a time warp because by the time this show will air, I will be back from vacation. This show with Paul Holmes was one of the most popular episodes of 2023 and definitely is just as relevant now. A lot of t...

EP444: Two State Healthcare Laws Often Don’t Go as Planned: CON and COPA, With Ann Kempski
July 11, 2024
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EP444: Two State Healthcare Laws Often Don’t Go as Planned: CON and COPA, With Ann Kempski

Unintended consequences is a thing. ERCowboy wrote on Twitter a while back, “In any complex system, the likelihood of unintended consequences vastly outweighs the predictability of intended ones.” In this healthcare podcast, we’re talking about two state laws where this is apropos: CON (Certificate...

EP443: Let Us Never Pay the First Bill in Honor of Marshall Allen
July 04, 2024
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EP443: Let Us Never Pay the First Bill in Honor of Marshall Allen

The first time I figuratively, not actually, met Marshall Allen was the day he did not meet Dave Chase for lunch. Dave was in Manhattan, and he was supposed to meet up with Marshall. But something happened, and Marshall was unable to make said lunch. So, I filled in for Marshall, who I had never me...

EP442: A Short Rumination on Saving Money, Except Not Saving Money. Oncology Side Effect Management as a Case Study, With Andreas Mang
June 27, 2024
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EP442: A Short Rumination on Saving Money, Except Not Saving Money. Oncology Side Effect Management as a Case Study, With Andreas Mang

This week, I’m gonna play an outtake, I guess it could be called, from the show with Andreas Mang from Blackstone that we wound up cutting for reasons of time and topic; but it’s been on my mind ever since. So, here’s this clip; and then I’m gonna invite you to partake in my ruminations because the...

EP441: Tables Get Turned. This Is Me Interviewed by Abby Burns From Radio Advisory About What Is Value
June 20, 2024
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EP441: Tables Get Turned. This Is Me Interviewed by Abby Burns From Radio Advisory About What Is Value

The show today is a recording of an earlier conversation between Abby Burns and myself. This original conversation happened during the Raising the Value Bar Summit, which was a summit all about value and the what, why, and how of it all. For a full transcript of this episode, click here . If you en...

EP440: What Is the Optimal Size for a Medical Practice? With David Muhlestein, PhD, JD
June 13, 2024
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EP440: What Is the Optimal Size for a Medical Practice? With David Muhlestein, PhD, JD

Well, I reached out to David Muhlestein, PhD, JD, the other day to find out what he was up to since he left Leavitt Partners, which had been acquired by HMA, Health Management Associates. Answer: He’s building his own company in stealth mode. Stay tuned. For a full transcript of this episode, click...

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