This episode’s conversation is about the new Consolidated Appropriations Act (CAA), the fee disclosure part of it, as well as ERISA and the fiduciary ...
EP341: How to Cut Administrative Waste AND Attract and Retain Doctors and Nurses, With Gary Campbell
First, let’s talk about reducing administrative waste in the US healthcare system. There was a pretty famous 2019 study by Shrank et al. that estimate...
EP340: How Digital Front Doors Can Enable Value-Based Care, With Kristin Begley
There’s a next generation of digital front doors being created that open up to a patient/member experience that folds in payer, provider, and employer...
AEE17: Employers and Reference-Based Pricing—David Contorno’s Latest Thinking
Reference-based pricing, the way that most employee benefit consultants use the term anyway, refers to a methodology used by employers to pay provider...
EP339: Helping Employers Navigate the Perilous Medical-Industrial Complex, With David Contorno
Let’s just start here: As a general construct, insurance carriers have every incentive for health insurance premiums to go up every year. If you’re an...
EP338: Ideas to Meet Rural Healthcare’s Tough Challenges, With Nikki King, DHA
My overarching thought throughout a lot of this interview was that improving rural health will take everyone remembering to not let perfect be the ene...
EP337: A Patient-First Specialty Pharmacy, Not a Money-First Specialty Pharmacy, With Olivia Webb
Here’s the cold hard truth: The whole specialty pharmacy operational model is not built to serve patients, a fact that becomes crystal clear when you’...
EP336: The Barbarians at the Gate—Who Are They and How Do They Cause Trouble for the Healthcare Industry Status Quo? With Brandon Weber
I was listening to a panel discussion and heard Brandon Weber use the phrase the “barbarians at the gate” of the healthcare industry. I think I reache...
INBW30: A Hot Take on Healthcare Stakeholders Not Collaborating
Here’s a hot take for you. I just learned what a hot take was last week, so, of course, I needed to get me one on the quick. The thing with hot takes,...
AEE16: The Destruction of Primary Care—A Short History, With Brian Klepper, PhD
This conversation starts out talking about the RUC, which is a committee run by the AMA, who has the sole source contract with CMS to figure out how m...