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Transcript for EP520 With Stacey Richter

Listen or Read the Show Notes [00:00:00] Stacey Richter: Episode 520 Cash Pay Generic Drugs Are a Functioning Market in Healthcare. Policyma...

Transcript for EP519 for Lisa Rosenbaum, MD

Listen or Read the Show Notes Primary Care Breaking Point [00:00:00] Stacey Richter: Episode 519, The Current State of Primary Care, Inevita...

Transcript for EP518 With Claire Brockbank

Ask Me Anything (AMA) Kickoff [00:00:00] Stacey Richter: Episode 518. Today we're gonna do an ask me anything. How do you explain the differ...

Transcript for EP517 With Stacey Richter

Listen or Read the Show Notes Episode Setup [00:00:00] Stacey Richter: Episode 517 Pharma/PBM Contracting. This is the 401 Level Contracting...

Transcript for EP516 With Ophelia Johnson

Listen or Read the Show Notes GLP-1 Cash Pay Flip [00:00:00] Stacey Richter: Episode 516. GLP-1s and Cash Pay From the Pharma Manufacturer P...

Transcript for EP515 With Michelle Cera

Listen or Read the Show Notes SNF Fraud Question [00:00:00] Stacey Richter: Episode 515. SNF, Skilled Nursing Facility fraud, or is it fraud...

Transcript for EP514 With Matt Cantor

Listen or Read the Show Notes Episode Setup [00:00:00] Stacey Richter: Episode 514. Successfully Suing a Health System for Their Anticompeti...

Transcript for EP513 With Brennan Bilberry

Listen or Read the Show Notes Episode Setup [00:00:00] Stacey Richter: Episode 513. Revisiting Cunning Anticompetitive Hospital Contracts Wi...

Transcript for EP512 With Doug Aldeen

Listen or Read the Show Notes [00:00:00] Stacey Richter: Episode 512. Three Kinds of Broker/EBC Rent Seeking Payment Models. A Lawyer's Pers...

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EP520: Cash-Pay Generic Drugs Are a Functioning Market in Healthcare—Policymakers Beware and Be Careful
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EP520: Cash-Pay Generic Drugs Are a Functioning Market in Healthcare—Policymakers Beware and Be Careful

Listen on Your Favorite App In the pachinko machine that is the healthcare industry, with just so many intermediaries, with so much regulatory capture and conflicts of interest that may or may not be visible, so much margin that is shrouded in mystery in an ecosystem as messy as this with so many va...

EP519: The Current State of Primary Care—Inevitable or Fixable? With Lisa Rosenbaum, MD
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Listen on Your Favorite App Hello, all you Relentless Tribe members. Today, let's start here. Right now, we are watching a very visible exodus of brilliant, consummate primary care (and other, honestly) physicians leaving traditional practice for concierge medicine or otherwise. For a full transcrip...

EP518: How Do You Explain the Difference Between an ASO Vendor and a TPA? With Claire Brockbank
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EP518: How Do You Explain the Difference Between an ASO Vendor and a TPA? With Claire Brockbank

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EP515: SNF (Skilled Nursing Facility) Fraud—Or Is It Fraud? With Michelle Cera, PhD
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Listen on Your Favorite App Hello, all you Relentless Tribe members. Lately, I have been just obsessed with what's hiding in plain sight: the root cause glitches in how American healthcare is built. Not the symptoms now. Not the noise. The actual ground zero. I mean, what we call healthcare in this ...

EP514: Successfully Suing a Health System for Their Anticompetitive Contracts and Also Collecting Damages for Plan Sponsors and Members, With Matt Cantor
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EP514: Successfully Suing a Health System for Their Anticompetitive Contracts and Also Collecting Damages for Plan Sponsors and Members, With Matt Cantor

Listen on Your Favorite App Hello, all you Relentless Tribe members. This is the third episode in our legal goings-on trifecta, starting with Doug Aldeen in episode 512 covering what amounts to the main reasons plan sponsors wind up suing their brokers or employee benefit consultants. For a full tra...

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