Healthcare Americana cover art

All Episodes

Healthcare Americana — 282 episodes

#
Title
1

How Employers Can Reclaim Control with Community-Owned Health Plans

2

You’re Entering the Healthcare System in the Wrong Place

3

Why Your Health Plan Gets More Expensive Every Year

4

Breaking Healthcare Monopolies: The Future of Free Market Healthcare

5

The CEO Mindset: Navigating Cancer and Healthcare with Kathy Giusti

6

Why Marketing Is Make-or-Break for Direct Primary Care

7

The Prior Authorization Crisis and 340B Drug Program Explained

8

How Health Sharing Works: A More Affordable Alternative to Traditional Insurance

9

How Direct Primary Care Is Making Healthcare Human Again

10

Surgery Without Walls: How Veritas is Rethinking Care

11

More Time, Less Stress: The Freedom of Direct Primary Care

12

Beyond the Annual Lab: Root Cause Testing in Direct Care

13

How Direct Mail-Order Pharmacy Improves Care and Cuts Costs

14

Medicare Advantage Fraud: The Billion-Dollar Upcoding Problem

15

How Value-Based Care Changes Healthcare

16

The Autoimmune Care Crisis: What Needs to Change

17

Uniting Voices for Healthcare Change: Michigan Joins The FMMA

18

How Free Market Economics Can Fix American Healthcare

19

The Hidden Loophole Driving Up Your Healthcare Costs

20

Escaping Marketing Paralysis: A Practical Guide for DPC Clinics

21

Practice Makes Perfect: Communication is Key in DPC

22

How Cash Pay Healthcare is Reshaping Medicine

23

Public Shaming Is My Prior Authorization: Julie Baak’s Viral Fight for Patients

24

Advocacy to Action: How Everyday People Can Shape Healthcare Policy

25

Healthcare’s Trust Crisis: How We Fix It

26

Balancing Business and Medicine: Strategies for Patient-Centered Care

27

Who Benefits from 340B? Empowering Patients Over Institutions

28

Busting Myths: How DPC Transforms Healthcare Savings

29

Human Connection in Healthcare: How the PACE Model Fights Senior Loneliness

30

Why Insurance is Breaking Healthcare - and How Direct Care Can Fix It

31

Holistic Care in Direct Primary Care: Treating Mind, Body, and Spirit

32

Preventing Chronic Diseases with Proper Nutrition

33

Understanding the Hospital Employment Trap

34

Discovering the Freedom of the DPC Model

35

PBMs' Influence on Drug Pricing and the Healthcare Economy

36

The Importance of State-Level Policy Reform in Healthcare

37

Avoiding Hospitalization in Memory Care

38

Leading Through Change: The Power of Adaptability in Healthcare

39

Rethinking Work-Life Balance in Medicine: Dr. Edward Williams’ Approach

40

How Employers Can Navigate the Complex World of Health Plans

41

Navigating Healthcare with Dr. Steelman: The Power of Personalization

42

Innovative Approaches to Mental Health in Primary Care

43

Enhancing Patient Care: Novocardia’s Value-Based Approach

44

Empowering Researchers: The Labfront Approach to Cost Reduction

45

The Power of Personalized Medicine

46

Balancing Act: Dr. Nicole Ascanio on Managing a DPC Practice and Family Life

47

Expanding Access to Affordable Primary Care: From Legislation to Practice

48

The Future of Self-Funded Healthcare Plans

49

Breaking the Cycle: Escaping the Employed Physician Trap

50

Reconstructing Healthcare: Health Rosetta’s Vision with Dave Chase

51

The Fight for Health Freedom

52

A CPA's View on Direct Primary Care

53

The Power of Data Integrity in Healthcare

54

Direct Primary Dermatology: Modernizing Solutions with Dr. Beth Goldstein

55

Gold Direct Care’s Dr. Jeffrey Gold on The Direct Primary Care Industry

56

Employee Health Matters: Navigating Fiduciary Responsibilities in Benefits

57

Inside the Medical Education System

58

From Capitol Hill to Patient Care: Bridging the Gap

59

AI as a Medical Ally: Enhancing Doctor-Patient Care Without Replacing Human Expertise

60

Driving Change: Green Imaging's Impact on Affordable, High-Quality Care

61

FMMA 2024 Annual Conference: Back to the Future

62

Navigating Healthcare: Direct Primary Care and the Future of Patient Navigation

63

Unplugging from the System: A Journey into Direct Primary Care

64

Beyond Chemotherapy: Rethinking Cancer Treatment with Dr. Mark Dybul

65

Navigating Mental Health in the Workplace: Strategies for Success

66

Transforming Healthcare by Liberating Professionals from Mundane Tasks

67

Breaking Free from Insurance: The Crowdfunding Solution for Health Bills

68

Saving Lives, Money, and Economies: The Power of Early Intervention & Incentives

69

The Future of Healthcare: From Sick Care to Holistic Wellness

70

Revolutionizing Mental Health Testing and Screening

71

Innovations in Healthcare: The Cutting Edge of Cognitive Assessments

72

The Changing Landscape of Addiction Treatment

73

Navigating Quality Healthcare: EMRs, Metrics, and More

74

The Allergy Epidemic: Navigating Allergies in America

75

The Personal Option: Empowering Patients in Healthcare

76

Reviving Healthcare’s Heartbeat

77

Putting Patients First: Saving Lives Over Dollars

78

Patients Before Pixels: EvidenceCare's EHR Solution

79

From Fear to Fun: Reshaping Healthcare Experiences with Smileyscope's VR Revolution

80

The Power of Prevention: Dr. Jay Shah and Aktiia's Innovation in Proactive Hypertension Care

81

The Growing Epidemic of Neurodegenerative Diseases - No Longer a Losing Battle

82

Good is Good Enough: Breaking Limiting Beliefs in Your Continuous Health Journey

83

Navigating Expenses and Staffing Shortages in Healthcare: Insights from Tim Hwang of Nitra

84

Transplant vs Dialysis - The US Kidney Care Money Trail

85

Disintermediating the Healthcare Supply Chain Leads to Lower Prices and Better Results

86

Expert Advice for Navigating Medicare's Complexities and Avoiding Costly Mistakes

87

The Impact of Direct Primary Care on Specialists and Corporate Medicine

88

Supplements: Can They Truly Make You Healthier?

89

Removing Roadblocks: Addressing the US Physician Shortage and Empowering International Medical Talent

90

Ownership, Access, and Advocacy: The Quest for Patient Data

91

Healthcare's Hidden Battles: Confronting Mystery Bills and Championing Patient Advocacy

92

From Red Tape to Patient Focus: The DPC Transformation

93

Navigating Mental Health Challenges with Dr. Ken Duckworth

94

Exploring Cash Pay Physical Therapy's Edge Over Insurance and Orthopedic Surgery

95

Better Outcomes Guide to Humanizing Health Care with Rafi Salazar

96

Dr. Keith Smith On Creating A High-Quality Healthcare Alternative

97

Creating Affordability for Scheduled Outpatient Care with SAVVOS Health

98

Rediscover Freedom In Healthcare: Kempton Group and FMMA Leading The Way

99

Daniel Wrenne's Expert Financial Advice For Physicians

100

Goodbill’s Patrick Haig on Tackling Hospital Bill Confusion

101

Marian University’s Clif Knight on Medical Education

102

Arrive Health's Kyle Kiser on Clearing a Way For Better Health, Access, & Engagement

103

Cicero’s Jonathan Wolfson on Trust in American Healthcare

104

Putting Medical Professionals in Charge of Their Care with Dr. Candace Walker of Flowing Life Direct Health

105

Foundation Direct Primary Care’s Dr. Edward William on DPC for Men

106

Filament Health’s Benjamin Lightburn on Natural Psychedelics

107

Dr. Ana Boyer on Benefits and Balance

108

Ryan Campbell on Navigating Naturopathy

109

Rural Healthcare In America II

110

Hunter Schultz on Primary Care Vs. Direct Primary Care

111

Chief Growth Officer Joe Wilson on Growing Your Practice

112

Elise Amez-Droz on Comparing International Healthcare Systems

113

Ryan Heer, N.D. on Medical Providers Working Together

114

Dr. Jim McDonald on Continuity Of Care

115

Neurologist Sumul Modi on Accessible, Affordable and Cutting Edge Care

116

Holly Smith, MD on Incorporating Faith Into the Practice of Medicine

117

Everly Health’s Dr. Liz Kwo on Building Trust and Community around Patients

118

MVP Health Care's CMO, Dr. Carl Cameron on Patient's Interest

119

Prescryptive’s Chris Blackley on Prescription Drug Market Transparency

120

Your Corner Pediatrics’ Katie and Elizabeth on Practicing Medicine the Way You Want To

121

Gold Direct Care’s Dr. Jeffrey Gold on The Direct Primary Care Industry

122

John O’Shea on Promoting Choice with Policy

123

Diall’s Jonah Salita on Mental Health Care in Social Media Spaces

124

TZLegal’s Jonathan Tycko on Fraud in the Healthcare Industry

125

Ossia’s Hatam Zeine on Wireless Tech Tearing Down Barriers

126

Evolve’s Grady Gibbs on Optimizing Relationships and Financial Payers

127

Rich Palarea on How Hospitals Can Save Millions

128

Paradocs Podcast’s Eric Larson

129

A Premium Provider/Patient Experience

130

Wide Awake Surgery

131

Authentic Solutions for Patient and Healthcare Workers

132

Healthcare Reformed

133

Inside the Medical Education System

134

Ways To Help Patients Receive Pandemic-Delayed Medical Care

135

Delivering Healthcare Into the Home

136

Digitizing Healthcare

137

Empowering the Patient

138

Automating Tech in the Clinic

139

Maximizing Your Health Insurance

140

The CMO’s new ‘MO’

141

Live Full End Well

142

Medical Malpractice & Sustainable Solutions

143

10 Questions We Need To Ask Ourselves About Lung Health

144

Healthcare on the Shoulders of Entrepreneurs

145

Wellness Before Weight

146

Empowering Practices With Their Own Cash Healthcare Solutions

147

Free Market Medical Association

148

Quality Health Care Worker Solutions

149

Episodic Care & Value Based Care Models

150

Crypto, Blockchain are Changing Healthcare

151

Getting a Fair Price for Surgical Services

152

Society Needs to Prepare for Technological Advances in Healthcare

153

Choosing Patients Over the Matrix

154

Is Specialty Direct Care Possible?

155

Little Changes Create Big Results

156

How AI Could’ve Improved the Pandemic Response

157

How to Become a Debt-Free Direct Care Physician

158

Covid, Burnout Causing Healthcare Workers to Flee Industry

159

Empowering Patients with Skin Disease

160

Why Only 5% of Innovation in Healthcare Succeeds

161

Food Activist Heals Lifetime of Severe Food Allergies

162

The Benefits of Working With a Fully Disclosed PBM

163

Helping Vulnerable Patients Attend Doctor Appointments

164

Gamifying Patient Compliance

165

Healthcare Americana Returns January 2022

166

What is the Real Cost of Developing Medicine?

167

Providing Frontline Clinicians a Clear Pathway for Screening and Management of NASH

168

Empowering Physicians to Provide Exceptional Care Beyond the Doctor's Office with AI

169

Putting a Spotlight on How The Government Spends Taxpayers Money on Healthcare

170

A Foundation Focusing on Improving the Health of Veterans

171

Effective Shopping is Key to Finding Good Healthcare

172

An Innovative Alternative Benefits Program

173

How the Pandemic Opened a Doctor’s Eyes to Care

174

Can a Patient Be Owned?

175

Helping Providers Make Informed Prescribing Decisions Through Actionable Data

176

What American Consumers Want in Healthcare

177

Launching a Pure Direct Care Specialty Practice is Possible

178

Does Direct Primary Care Lead to Healthier Outcomes and Lower Costs?

179

The Importance of Educating Consumers on How to Navigate the Healthcare Market

180

Does Government Involvement Make Pharmaceuticals More or Less Affordable to the End User?

181

The Misconceptions of Direct Specialty Care

182

How to Make OTC and Pharmacies Easy to Understand and More Accessible

183

Patients Deserve Options, Transparency and Affordability

184

Patient Empowers Physician to Change Approach to Medical Care

185

Drug Affordability is a Real Problem

186

Current Event: FMMA Annual Conference - Are You Ready for the Red Pill?

187

Why Quality Metrics is Detrimental to Care

188

The Digital Healthcare Moment

189

Introduction to Healthcare Americana

190

Administrators Need to Report to Doctors

191

Doctors Can Care for Patients and Themselves

192

The Best Surgical Option is Cash

193

How Do You Shop For Healthcare?

194

Building Better Benefits

195

Combatting Medical Bill Bankruptcy

196

When Your Doctor Isn't a Doctor

197

What is a PBM?

198

Once in a Generation Opportunity

199

Reference Based Pricing

200

Freedom to Care

201

Becoming My Own Patient Advocate

202

The Know-Do Gap

203

Start a Business When You Get Mad

204

Family Mental Health in a Pandemic

205

All Doctors are Specialists

206

Myths of Board Certification

207

ENT Specialty Direct Care

208

Care Reinforcements Battling COVID

209

Bundling Direct Care Specialties

210

Common DPC Mistakes

211

Health Law and Direct Care

212

Sandra Scheinbaum, PhD: Health Coaching

213

Scott Borden: Health Savings Accounts & DPC

214

Kendrick Johnson, DO: Profit is Good

215

Healthshares + DPC = Winning Formula

216

Medicare & Medical Missions

217

Fixing Residency Programs

218

A Vision for American Healthcare

219

Opportunity Costs

220

Tabloid Medicine & Headline Healthcare

221

Embracing Direct Care Benefits

222

Direct Orthopedic Care

223

Imaging Center Innovation

224

Powering Employer DPC

225

Employer Benefits in a Pandemic

226

The Freedom of Independence

227

The Reeducation of Insurance Brokers

228

Telehealth is Red Hot

229

My Hospital Stole My Identity

230

Our Forgotten Future Doctors

231

What Do Patients Say?

232

Exposing America's Poor Health

233

Innovating within the Covid-19 Pandemic

234

Pre-existing Conditions Don't Exist in DPC

235

Socialist Healthcare Doesn't Work

236

History of Health Insurance

237

Showing Physicians the Light

238

Why Do Hospitals Need So Many Administrators?

239

Who Heals the Healers?

240

Can PAs and NPs Solve the Physician Shortage?

241

Envisioning a Better Way

242

Doctors & Community

243

Doctors' Addiction to Salary

244

A Surgeon Sees A Better Way

245

Sleep Disorders & Direct Care

246

The Coronavirus Effect

247

Disrupting Pharmacy Benefit Managers

248

Direct Care Emergency Rooms

249

What Does Data Mean in Direct Care?

250

The Free Market Medical Association - FMMA's Annual Conference

251

Cash Pay Pharmacy

252

The Benjamin Rush Institute

253

An Unorthodox Benefits Solution

254

Sedera & Medical Cost Sharing

255

Hospital Bullying - A Patient Story

256

Freeing Physicians Series, Part 2

257

Freeing Physicians Series, Part 1

258

Direct Care as a Unifying Force

259

Starting a Direct Care Practice After Residency

260

Common DPC Mistakes

261

Scaling the Direct Primary Care Movement

262

Innovation in Free Market Surgery Centers

263

States Can Lead The Way On Healthcare

264

Questions Never Thought to Ask - A Patient Story

265

The Free Market Medical Association - A True Partnership

266

Can the Government Actually Make Healthcare Cheaper?

267

Rural Healthcare in America Series

268

DPC Peace of Mind - A Patient Story

269

The Integrity of Medicine

270

Building A Direct Primary Care Functional Medicine Practice After Battling Disease

271

Helping Employees Lose the Right Kind of Weight

272

Furthering the Direct Primary Care Movement

273

The Disillusionment of Early Career Physicians

274

Beating Thyroid Cancer & Discovering Direct Primary Care

275

Direct Primary Care as an Employer Benefit

276

From Selling Health Insurance to a Believer in DPC

277

Pharmacy Innovation Leads to Cheaper Rx

278

Healthcare in America, Part 2

279

Healthcare in America, Part 1

280

Being a Patient is also a Nightmare for a Physician

281

Unexpected Ways of Caring for Patients

282

The Why of Freedom Healthworks