Show Packs

Show packs are collections of episodes grouped by topic or audience to get you up to speed on the industry. Choose your show pack below to listen to its playlist.

Be sure to also check out the list of Healthcare Industry Acronyms and Terms that will be helpful to new listeners.

Employers 101
If you’re an employer, start here for a 101-level course on what self-insured employers should know.

The Impact of Hospital Prices on Employer Plan Sponsors
We cover the impact of hospital prices have on self-insured employers/plan sponsors and some solutions.

Specialty Pharmacy
This show pack includes episodes covering specialty pharmacies and pharmacists.

Co-pay Cards 101
The Co-pay Cards 101 show pack covers how co-pay cards work, the economics behind these cards, and why they exist.

How Does GoodRx Make Money?
A topic that is popular across audiences, we cover the mystery of how GoodRx and others make money.

How Much Money Can PBMs Make?
The short answer is, a lot. In this show pack, we cover various topics on PBM contracts and drug rebates.

PBMs’ Impact on Pharmacies
The struggle of pharmacies—especially indie pharmacies—due to the impact of PBMs on the industry is covered in this show pack.

Fixing the Loopholes That Jack Up Rx Pricing
This show pack covers how PBMs take advantage of loopholes which cause ever-increasing drug pricing.

The Pharma Industry
We cover the overall pharma industry in this show pack. We’ll be expanding this show pack.

Employers 101

The Impact of Hospital Prices on Employer Plan Sponsors

Specialty Pharmacy

Co-pay Cards 101

How Does GoodRx Make Money?

How Much Money Can PBMs Make?

PBMs’ Impact on Pharmacies

Fixing the Loopholes That Jack Up Rx Pricing

The Pharma Industry

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Recent Episodes

EP511: The Tension When Clinical Teams Take On Risk for Policymakers and Others Looking to Rustle Up Future Perverse Incentives, With Dr. Siva and Monica Lypson, MD, MHPE
Relentless Health ValueMay 14, 2026
511
29:3727.1 MB

EP511: The Tension When Clinical Teams Take On Risk for Policymakers and Others Looking to Rustle Up Future Perverse Incentives, With Dr. Siva and Monica Lypson, MD, MHPE

Listen on Your Favorite App Last week, we talked Medicare Advantage with Betsy Seals ( EP510 ), and we talked about finding members who a plan can serve well. This makes sense because Medicare Advantage is a capitated program. In other words, Medicare Advantage plans get paid by CMS a per member per...

EP510: The Impact on You of Medicare Advantage Goings-on (2026 Edition), With Betsy Seals
Relentless Health ValueMay 07, 2026
510
35:3032.5 MB

EP510: The Impact on You of Medicare Advantage Goings-on (2026 Edition), With Betsy Seals

Listen on Your Favorite App I came up with at least one way to tell the difference between making a fair profit and profiteering. If someone makes more money when the patients or members they serve are worse off, yeah, call that profiteering. For a full transcript of this episode, click here . If yo...

EP509: The 7.7% Wake-Up Call: A Roadmap to Align Finance Teams With Non-complacent Benefit Design, With Patrick Nelli
Relentless Health ValueApril 30, 2026
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37:4834.6 MB

EP509: The 7.7% Wake-Up Call: A Roadmap to Align Finance Teams With Non-complacent Benefit Design, With Patrick Nelli

Listen on Your Favorite App Sarah Monroe: Hi. This is Sarah Monroe in Chicago, and I'm a benefits procurement leader. And I'm curious why you think so few executives take proactive bold action in health benefits strategy given the magnitude of opportunity. Stacey: Isn't that a great question? For a ...

EP508: Why Don't More Self-insured CEOs Take Bold Action in Health Benefits Strategy? With Lee Lewis
Relentless Health ValueApril 23, 2026
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44:0240.31 MB

EP508: Why Don't More Self-insured CEOs Take Bold Action in Health Benefits Strategy? With Lee Lewis

Listen on Your Favorite App This episode is the very first episode that we have done that is an AMA—an Ask Me Anything—and here is our very first question. Sarah Monroe: Hi. This is Sarah Monroe in Chicago, and I'm a benefits procurement leader. And I'm curious why you think so few executives take p...

EP507: 4 Core Concepts to Buy or Deliver the Highest-Value Healthcare—A Review
Relentless Health ValueApril 16, 2026
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33:5831.09 MB

EP507: 4 Core Concepts to Buy or Deliver the Highest-Value Healthcare—A Review

Listen on Your Favorite App Look, we wonks, meaning you and me, you're listening to this, so I am on to you. But we wonks in the Relentless Tribe, we move like lightning on Relentless Health Value. We tend to cover lots of ground pretty fast. So, sometimes I like to, with great intention, sum up wha...

EP506: How Other Employers, Shareholders, and Clinics Are Using Price Transparency Data—And It's an Arms Race, With Jerry DiMaso
Relentless Health ValueApril 09, 2026
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35:5132.81 MB

EP506: How Other Employers, Shareholders, and Clinics Are Using Price Transparency Data—And It's an Arms Race, With Jerry DiMaso

Listen on Your Favorite App, So, we have a few miniseries afoot here on Relentless Health Value right now, and one of them is "The Inches That Are All Around Us"—finding the hidden fees, the hidden friction for plans and members and clinics themselves a lot of times in those inches. For a full trans...

EP505: The Death of the "What Is Value" Guessing Game for Clinical and Plan Decision-Makers Ready to Move On, With Ahilan Sivaganesan, MD
Relentless Health ValueApril 02, 2026
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44:0240.31 MB

EP505: The Death of the "What Is Value" Guessing Game for Clinical and Plan Decision-Makers Ready to Move On, With Ahilan Sivaganesan, MD

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...

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