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Encore! EP363: How to Cut Healthcare Admin Burden in Half, With David Scheinker, PhD
For a full transcript of this episode, click here . I’m gonna encore this episode with David Scheinker, PhD, for several reasons; but here’s a big one: Why are we as an industry not doing what David Scheinker suggests in this episode? Why are we not doing, I don’t know, kinds ...
EP435: Optimized Pharmacy Benefits Are Required if You Want to Do or Buy Value-Based Care, With Dan Mendelson
For a full transcript of this episode, click here . This conversation I am having with Dan Mendelson, my guest today, all started with a post that he had written on LinkedIn considering how pharmacy benefits can or should be optimized within the broader context of value-based care. Total cost of ...
EP434: 5 Surprises About Bundled Payments, With Benjamin Schwartz, MD, MBA
For a full transcript of this episode, click here . I’ve been in a couple of meetings lately. In one case, a healthcare company came up with a strategy and deployed it; and the strategy didn’t go as planned. The other one, it did go as planned—it worked great. Of course, I&rsquo...
EP433: The Mystery of the Weekly Claims Wire: What Are Plan Sponsors Actually Paying For Each Week? With Justin Leader
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...
Encore! EP391: A Case Study for Anyone Trying to Level Up Primary Care That I’m Gonna Call “How Margin Shoves Mission Off the Bus,” With Scott Conard, MD
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. ...
Encore! EP297: A Driver of Patient Engagement and Clinician Team Success That Is Almost Always Overlooked, With Jerry Durham
For a full transcript of this episode, click here . This show has implications for provider organizations of all stripes, especially those looking to succeed in value-based care or those who need patient trust and relationships for any other reason, including just patient volume. This episode a...
EP432: The Knifepoint Intersection of Margin and Mission and the Peril of Cutting Clinical “Waste,” With Kate Wolin, ScD
For a full transcript of this episode, click here . First of all, I just want to start out this pod and really thank everyone listening and for showing up for a show like this one. You do it and you are here because you care about patients/members. It’s just so easy to feel like we’...
EP431: How Accountability for Outcomes Works in the Real World With Kenny Cole, MD
For a full transcript of this episode, click here . There’s this meme that’s going around on the interwebs with the caption, “Sometimes the shortest distance in between two places isn’t a straight line.” What? Yeah, because actually there’s three dimensions in ...
EP430: Advice for Digital Health Vendors Selling to Employers, With Barbara Wachsman
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 Rik...