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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

Encore! EP418: Mark Cuban With a PSA for CEOs and CFOs of Self-insured Employers, With Mark Cuban and Ferrin Williams, PharmD, MBA, From Scripta
November 21, 202456:1651.51 MB

Encore! EP418: Mark Cuban With a PSA for CEOs and CFOs of Self-insured Employers, With Mark Cuban and Ferrin Williams, PharmD, MBA, From Scripta

This show from last year was one of the most popular episodes of the past year. And it’s also extremely relevant right now, given all of the PBM (pharmacy benefit manager) goings-on, as well as ongoing litigation like the J&J lawsuit , etc. Listen to the show with Julie Selesnick ( EP428 ) for ...

Encore! EP415: Some Jumbo Employers Buying Better Healthcare Outcomes While Saving 15% on Total Cost of Care, With Rob Andrews
November 14, 202439:3936.29 MB

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

This encore is very relevant after the shows with Cora Opsahl ( EP452 ), Claire Brockbank ( EP453 ), and Marilyn Bartlett ( EP450 ). Getting better health for the 160 million Americans covered by commercial insurance is all about rates, rights, and power. For a full transcript of this episode, clic...

EP456: Advice to Pharma at the Intersection of Product Value, Reputation, and Patient Affordability, With Brian Reid
November 07, 2024
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EP456: Advice to Pharma at the Intersection of Product Value, Reputation, and Patient Affordability, With Brian Reid

This show is going to be a little bit different because what we’re going to do today is offer some advice to those who may work at a pharma company. But before we get into this advice portion of the discussion, let’s start here. For a full transcript of this episode, click here . If you enjoy this ...

EP455: A Leadership Blueprint for Measurably Better Care, With Beau Raymond, MD
October 31, 2024
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EP455: A Leadership Blueprint for Measurably Better Care, With Beau Raymond, MD

A rate critical to attain better care for patients, I’m gonna say, is enlightened leadership—maybe dyad leadership—at a clinical organization. I am saying this because without enlightened leaders, it’d be harder to build from the blueprint that Beau Raymond, MD, talks about today on the show. For a...

EP454: How the Particle v Epic Lawsuit Impacts Plan Sponsors and Public Health Trying to Get Data, With Brendan Keeler
October 24, 2024
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EP454: How the Particle v Epic Lawsuit Impacts Plan Sponsors and Public Health Trying to Get Data, With Brendan Keeler

You know why I’m interested in the Particle v Epic EHR (electronic health record) systems lawsuit? It’s because … data. Say I’m thinking about this like, say, a plan sponsor and I want data so I can do better population health or do care navigation to help my members avoid downstream bad things or ...

EP453: Running a TPA (Third-Party Administrator) RFP Process That Is Less of a Wild West Fiduciary Shootout, With Claire Brockbank
October 17, 2024
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EP453: Running a TPA (Third-Party Administrator) RFP Process That Is Less of a Wild West Fiduciary Shootout, With Claire Brockbank

TPA stands for third-party administrator. RFP stands for request for proposal. I’m kicking off the show today with a review that we got recently on Apple Podcasts, and not just because it’s a really nice review. It’s because it’s relevant on about nine levels to the show today with Claire Brockbank...

EP452: Fiduciary Duty vs the Healthcare Status Quo, With Cora Opsahl
October 10, 2024
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EP452: Fiduciary Duty vs the Healthcare Status Quo, With Cora Opsahl

Last time Cora Opsahl was on the show, Michelle Bernabe, RN, KAT, wrote a comment on LinkedIn I thought encapsulated the gist of it all so well. She wrote, “[Cora] first became a mentor/ally through Relentless Health Value episode 372 . … It opened a doorway to a whole group of very relentless peop...

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