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Listen On Your Favorite App Hello, Relentless Tribe. Thank you so much for showing up today. All right … to start, let me lay out the goal of the episode today. This episode is for you if you are a self-funded employer looking to ensure your members are steered and tiered to real high-value care and...

Listen On Your Favorite App It's been a while since we started from the beginning, so let's just take stock of the basics in this show, refresh ourselves if you're a longtime listener, or welcome if you're new around here. Today we are digging on and about what I would call the poster child for prov...

Listen On Your Favorite App This inbetweenisode I wanna try something new for two reasons. One of them is that I need to check this episode off my to-do list because I am crushed for time. I'm going to be headed to Arizona tomorrow for the Collective Health Conference , which will have occurred thre...

Listen On Your Favorite App Today we are digging into something I've said probably way too often: Collaboration is the next breakthrough innovation. And I'm doubling down on this because in the current healthcare landscape, two parties that actually should be talking—like burning up the phone wires ...

You know, I always kind of wondered what the hackers were doing with all of the medical data that they've managed to get their mitts on over the past, I don't know, however many years. Now, I know at least one thing. If you're a hacker, you can use your stolen medical data to not actually send wildl...

Let us chat about today the inches all around us and also about how there is no market in healthcare all at once in this show. Today I am talking with Ivana Krajcinovic. And let me give you some examples of the inches. Two members of a plan get infusions at a hospital. And if these two members had g...

We have been doing a little series called "The Inches Are All Around Us," digging out waste in the $5.6 trillion healthcare sector where half an inch of waste can equal billions of dollars. I'm going to right now introduce another series that is complementary but has a slightly different focus. And ...

Listen On Your Favorite App This episode would not be happening, to be frank, if Cora Opsahl hadn't asked me what my plans were for episode 500. A few weeks ago, we were in the lobby bar at the legendary Hotel Chelsea—Sid Vicious, Patti Smith, you know the place. In our defense, the Hotel Chelsea is...

Hello, all you and the Relentless Health Tribe trying to figure out how to do right by patients and the folks footing the bill. Welcome to it. This is episode 499, one episode before episode 500. So, come back next week for that one. Listen on Your Favorite App All right, so today, let's talk about ...

Listen On Your Favorite App This episode is part of the "Inches Are All Around Us" series because … yeah, you'll see why fast enough. So, last week or two weeks ago, if you listened to that episode about clearinghouses with Zack Kanter ( EP497 ), you may or may not recall. And if you didn't listen t...

Listen On Your Favorite App This episode is part of the "Inches Are All Around Us" series looking for all the little pockets—inches, if you will—that comprise the greater than $1 trillion in healthcare waste in this country annually. For a full transcript of this episode, click here . If you enjoy t...

Listen On Your Favorite App Okay. This show today is part of our Relentless Health Value "The Inches Are All Around Us" series. This Inches Talk is a metaphor for finding all those little places where there is healthcare waste as a first step in an effort to excise all these little pockets of waste....

I'm gonna do a little series here called "The Inches Are All Around Us," and in this series, at least to start, all of the inches I'm gonna mention are full-on administrative waste—waste that is particularly egregious because it has nothing to do with patient care. That's why when Shane Cerone said,...

Listen On Your Favorite App What I thought could be a good idea to experiment with here at the end of the year or the beginning of the year is to dissect shows from 2025 and distill out the major themes that have come up repeatedly and in different contexts throughout the year. Our big five takeaway...

Listen On Your Favorite App So, this is new. What I thought could be a good idea to experiment with here is instead of bringing up, I was gonna say, new concepts, then I thought better of it because there's nothing new in this world. But as I reflect on 2025, what occurs to me, there have been certa...

Listen On Your Favorite App Marilyn Bartlett is the real deal. I saw Marilyn get a lifetime achievement award last year at RosettaFest from Dave Chase, and then I actually had the pleasure of getting up on the stage with her and heard that round of applause. But it takes guts to push for fiscal disc...

Listen On Your Favorite App Relentless Health Value tribe, in this conversation that follows with Dr. Mick Connors, I had a barnstormer of a revelation—one I have never heard anyone talk about before … like, ever. It's a major fundamental bottom line, though, about the U.S. healthcare system—an insi...

Listen On Your Favorite App I was out drinking martinis with Cora Opsahl, director of 32BJ Health Fund , and Cora said, "Look, most plan sponsors' biggest expense is health system spend, hospital spend." I know this is an unexpected start to an episode about pharmaceutical pricing and value featurin...

Listen On Your Favorite App Not gonna give much of an introduction here because this is a short bonus level set, but I did just wanna call everyone's attention to the "arms race" created by our status quo purchasing and selling of many things, pharmaceuticals included. For a full transcript of this ...

Listen On Your Favorite App This episode is gonna drop on Thanksgiving, but whenever you are listening, I'd like to suggest taking this moment to be grateful. Everybody has someone to be thankful for: colleagues, our mentors, our cheerleaders, our support system, our community, our strategic allianc...