employers

For a full transcript of this episode, click here . The episode today is somewhat of a follow-on to the show with Lauren Vela, which was episode 406 about employer inertia. If we’re talking about inertia, though, we’d be remiss not to get a little circumspect about the whole affair an...

For a full transcript of this episode, click here . On the show today, I am going to use the term TPA (third-party administrator) and ASO (administrative services only) vendor kind of interchangeably here. But these are the entities that a plan sponsor—for example, a self-insured employer i...

For a full transcript of this episode, click here . Here’s a great musing that I read on LinkedIn : How will alternative primary care models fare when growth mode gets balanced with profitability and VC-supported burn rate is transformed to Big Retail bottom-line expectations? Mission v. ...

For a full transcript of this episode, click here . We have been spending a bunch of time here on Relentless Health Value talking about PBMs (pharmacy benefit managers) lately and pharmacy benefits, but we are moving into a new topic area. It sort of kicked off three weeks ago with the pod with R...

For a full transcript of this episode, click here . In this healthcare podcast we’re talking about pharmacy acronyms or terms like AWP and WAC, and, not really an acronym, but we’ll also talk pharmacy list prices, rebates, discounts. We also have NADAC, but that’s slightly off t...

For a full transcript of this episode, click here . This show is different, so if you’ve already listened to or read all about the gory details of the J&J and/or the DOL v BCBS lawsuits, this is not gonna be a repeat of that information. Julie Selesnick, my guest today, does cover the v...

For a full transcript of this episode, click here . Here on Relentless Health Value, we have done a bunch of shows lately on how some weird PBM (pharmacy benefit manager) and pharmacy goings-on impact plan members, patients, and also independent pharmacies. During the conversation with Benjamin J...

For a full transcript of this episode, click here . Listen to this show as either a follow-on or a prequel to the shows with Mark Cuban and Ferrin Williams, PharmD, MBA ( EP418 ) and Ge Bai, PhD, CPA ( EP420 ). And if you’re interested in this “what’s going on in the world of PB...

For a full transcript of this episode, click here . CEOs and CFOs … hey, this show is for you. Let’s start here: What do all of these numbers have in common: $140,000, $3 million, $35 million, and $3 billion? These are all actual examples of how much employers, unions, and some p...

I couldn’t resist the “who’s suing who” because, yeah, you can’t go wrong with Aretha Franklin references. Back on the pod we have Chris Deacon, who is going to give us a rundown of the legal goings-on going on right now that impact self-insured employers, carriers, ...

I’m gonna run through the five reasons Lauren Vela talks about in this healthcare podcast for the “why” with the inertia in benefits departments of self-insured employers. But before I do, let me report that, in sum, they add up to … in many cases, benefits folks sit betwee...

If this were a video show, I would stare into the camera with steely eyeballs right now and say that I have a special message for employer CFOs. If you aren’t a CFO, pretend that you are so that you get the full effect here. So, now that we’re all CFOs, let’s pull up the company...

Mr. Steinhart has had a distinguished career as an entrepreneur, investor and executive in the healthcare industry. He has been instrumental in starting or investing in many technology-based companies, several of which have developed products that have become the standard of care in their respectiv...