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EP317: Wait, the Latest Action on Drug Pricing Reform Can Be Found in the Infrastructure Bill? With Josh LaRosa, MPP, Policy Director, Wynne Health Group

EP316: Unexpectedly Talking About Employers, With David Carmouche, MD, From Ochsner, a Large Health System

EP315: The Very Unsexy Essential for Technology to Drive Outcomes That Nobody Talks About, With Bob Matthews

AEE14: A Short Lesson for Self-insured Employers: Dr. Doug Eby Gives Some Advice That Everybody Should Hear Who Is Interested in Improving Outcomes and Lowering Costs, With Douglas Eby, MD, MPH, CPE

EP314: Why Do SNF (Skilled Nursing Facility) Patients Need Two Pharmacies and a PBM? Following the Kinda Long Long-term Care Pharmaceutical Supply Chain, With Sheldon Weiss, MD

EP313: Partnering Up With Fiercely Local and Fiercely Independent Pharmacies, With Dan Strause and Drew Leatherberry

EP312: Radically Improving Population Health: Listen and Learn From One of Our Country's Best-Kept Secrets, With Douglas Eby, MD, MPH, CPE

EP311: How Aging in Place Becomes a Business Problem for FFS Providers, With Sumit Nagpal

AEE13: Have You Ever Wondered How GoodRx Makes Money? With Ge Bai, PhD, CPA

EP310: The 2020 Shkreli Awards for the Worst Examples of Profiteering and Dysfunction in Health Care, With Vikas Saini, MD, and Shannon Brownlee

EP309: FFS Providers Getting Locked Out of Referral Flows, Right Now, As We Speak, With Jeff Hogan

EP308: At Least Two Surprising Insights About Value-Based Care, With Mark Fendrick, MD

EP307: The Surprise Billing Legislation: Its Impact on Providers, Hospitals, Self-insured Employers, and (Most of All) Patients, With Loren Adler

EP306: A Deep Dive Into Amazon's Pharmacy and the Amazon Pharmacy Model Some Employers Are Running With, With Ge Bai, PhD, CPA

EP305: The 1% Most Expensive Claimants Racking Up Massive FFS Bills and Still Not Getting the Help They Need From Our Health Care System, With Darrell Moon, CEO of Orriant

AEE12: Steve Blumberg and I Discuss the 2020 Humana Value-based Care Report

EP304: How a Provider Population Health Leader Who Went to Work for a Payer Thinks About Health Care Transformation, With Steve Blumberg, VP of Practice Transformation for GuideWell Health

Encore! EP216: How Medicare Part D Plans Became Addicted to Drug Rebates, With Chris Sloan From Avalere Health

Encore! EP231: Pharmaceutical Contracting, PBMs, Pharmacies, Employers, and the Latest HHS Rebate Proposal, With AJ Loiacono, CEO of Capital Rx

INBW29: The Secret to Transforming Our Health Care System Revealed—A Summary of the Wisdom of Relentless Health Value Guests in 2020

EP303: The Conflict Between QALYs for Drug Value and Specific Well-Funded Patient Advocacy Groups, With Anna Kaltenboeck From the Drug Pricing Lab at Memorial Sloan Kettering

EP302: The Gigantic Problem I Have With Talk About Telehealth, With Blake McKinney, MD, From CirrusMD

Encore! EP206: Turns Out, High‑Deductible Plans Do Not Drive High‑Quality, Cost‑Effective Care, With Ashok Subramanian, CEO and Founder of Centivo

EP301: What Is Up With the Hospital and Payer Transparency Rules From CMS Now and Also After January 20? With Jeff Leibach, MBA

EP300: Getting the Right Drugs Developed and Thinking Different About How to Pay for Them, With Bruce Rector, MD

EP299: FFS (Fee for Service) Is a Whole Business Model—It's Not Just a Way to Get Paid, With Alan Kaplan, MD, MBA, Assistant Professor of Urology at Georgetown University and a Practicing Urologist

EP298: The Intersection of Value-Based Payments and Behavioral Health—Also, the Rise of Telepsychiatry, With Don Fowls, MD

EP297: How the Front Desk Can Make or Break Patient Trust and, Potentially, Outcomes, With Jerry Durham From The Client Experience Company

EP296: Oncology FAQs About Telehealth, Standardizing Care, and Drug Prices, With Vincent Rajkumar, MD, of Mayo Clinic, Rochester

EP295: Surprising Insights About Measuring Primary Care Performance, With Rebecca Etz, PhD

EP294: Building a Center of Excellence: A Playbook for Physician Entrepreneurs, With Steve Schutzer, MD, Physician Executive for the Orthopedic Service Line at Trinity Health of New England and Medical Director of the Connecticut Joint Replacement Institu

EP293: Game Theory Gone Wild: Co-pay Cards, Co-pay Accumulators, and Co-pay Maximizers, With Dea Belazi, PharmD, MPH, President and CEO of AscellaHealth

EP292.5: Teladoc Livongo Part 2

EP292: Teladoc Buys Livongo: What Are the Implications for Providers, Employers, and the Market? Part 1, With Bob Matthews and Dan O'Neill, MA, MS

EP291: What Are Medicare Advantage Plans Up to Right About Now? With Betsy Seals, Cofounder of the Rebellis Group

Encore! EP225: Why, Right Now, It Is No Longer Optional to Suck at Patient Centricity, With Joe Selby, MD, MPH, Former Executive Director of PCORI

EP290: Shining a Light on the Crafty Gambits Used by Some (Not All) Hospital Billing Departments, With Doug Aldeen

EP289: The Right Amount of Oncology Screening and Care—In a Pandemic and Not in a Pandemic, With Bishal Gyawali, MD, PhD

EP288: The "Big Three" PBMs Spinning Up GPOs—What? With Mike Schneider, Principal at Avalere Health

EP287: The Time for Entrepreneurial Physician Leaders Is Right Now, With Dan O'Neill, MA, MS

EP286: Advice for Health Systems in the Face of Consumerism and Value-based Contracts, With John Rodis, MD, MBA

EP285: The Fascinating Story of Billions of Dollars Going Missing When the Back Office Pays Health Care Bills, With Dawn Cornelis, Cofounder and Director of Transparency at ClaimInformatics

EP284: When Prescribers Know How Much a Drug Will Cost Patients at the Point of Prescribing, With Carm Huntress, CEO and Cofounder of RxRevu

EP283: Your Telehealth Success May Be a Launchpad for Health System Innovation and Human-centered Health Care, With Sylvia Romm, MD, MPH, Chief Innovation Officer at Atlantic Health System

INBW27: Two Metrics to Measure the Value of Care Delivered

EP282: Do You Know How Much Cancer Centers Get Paid to Put Patients on Drugs? With Aaron Mitchell, MD, MPH

EP281: Badly Managed Health System Supply Chains Steal From Patients and the Providers Who Let This Happen, With Rob Austin From Guidehouse

EP280: Will Currently-in-Use Technology Advancements Wind Up Disrupting Traditional Models of Health Care Delivery and Reimbursement? With Yauheni Solad, MD, and Rahul Dubey

EP279: How Did Health Systems Get Addicted to the Inflated Prices They Charge Employers and Some Patients? With Peter Hayes, President and CEO of the Healthcare Purchaser Alliance of Maine

EP278: Will COVID-19 Result in a New Normal for Value-based Pharmaceutical Pricing? With Maura Calsyn From the Center for American Progress

EP277: Is Now the Time When Value-based Payments Overcome a Fierce and Sticky Fee-for-Service Overlord? With Eric Weaver, Executive Director of the Accountable Care Learning Collaborative

EP276: Advice for Self-insured Employers and That Prediction of a 4% to 40% Premium Increase in the Fully Insured Market, With Brian Scott From Point6 Healthcare

EP275: Will Self-insured Employer Costs Ultimately Go Up? The Why and How to Protect Your Company From Predatory Health Care Pricing, With Brian Scott, From Point6 Healthcare

EP274: What Telehealth Means After the Pandemic, With Jonathan Thierman, MD, PhD, From LifeBridge Health System

EP273: At What Level Will Telehealth Survive After the End of the Pandemic? With Jonathan Thierman, MD, PhD, From LifeBridge Health System

EP272: Why This Pandemic Is a Game Changer for PCPs and the Employers and Plans Who Pay Them, With Guy Culpepper, MD

EP271: A Surprise Billing Defense Strategy for Patients AND Employers in the Middle of a Pandemic, With Al Lewis, Rachel Miner, David Contorno, and Doug Aldeen

EP270: How to Save Primary Care Practices With the Marshall Plan for Prospective Payment Models, With Dave Chase, Cofounder and CEO of Health Rosetta

EP269: Prepping for the Next Wave: What Payers and Providers Should Be Doing Right Now to Get Ready, With Eric Bricker, MD, From AHealthcareZ

AEE11: COVID-19 Billing, With Doug Aldeen and Al Lewis

EP268: After June: Action Steps for Hospitals, Payers, Employers, and Pharma, With Marty Makary, MD, MPH

EP267: From Now Until June: Action Steps for Hospitals, Payers, Employers, Pharma, With Marty Makary, MD, MPH

EP266: When the Scrubs and the Suits Partner Together, Everybody Is Happier … Except Maybe Those Looking to Exploit Patients, With Matt Anderson, MD, MBA

EP265: The What, the How, and the Questionable Why of Digital Therapeutic Formularies, With Randy Vogenberg, PhD

EP264: How Prior Auths Collide With Trust, With Ron Wince, CEO of Myndshft

EP263: How Population Health Leaders Use Artificial Intelligence Right Now, With Andrew Eye From ClosedLoop

EP262: The Ease of Doing Business, With Brian Van Winkle and Rishab Shah From Johns Hopkins Medicine and Working With NODE.Health

EP261: Six Essential Steps to Get Population Health Right, With Fred Goldstein, President and Founder of Accountable Health, LLC

AEE10: An Update on the Snowball of Drug Pricing Initiatives in Washington Right Now, With Josh LaRosa, MPP, Policy Director, Wynne Health Group

EP260: The Latest Shkreli Awards for the Worst Examples of Profiteering and Dysfunction in the Health Care Industry, With Shannon Brownlee and Vikas Saini, MD, of the Lown Institute

EP259: What Are Payers Looking to Solve For Right Now? With Rahul Dubey of Percynal Health Innovations

EP258: Areas of Promise, With Seven Health Care Thought Leaders

EP257: Rating the Raters of Hospital Quality, With Karl Bilimoria, MD, From Northwestern Medicine

EP256: A Major Health Care Cost Driver Revealed: Misdiagnoses in Radiology, With Ron Vianu, Founder and CEO of Covera Health

EP255: UCHealth: A Short List of Hospital Innovations Rolled Out in 2019, With Richard Zane, MD, From UCHealth

EP254: How to Achieve Outcomes That Matter to Patients, With Nadine Jackson McCleary, MD, MPH, BSN

INBW26: A Three-Prong Plan to Find Areas of Promise and/or Promising Companies in Health Care

EP253: How to Use Health IT to Help Patients and Providers Collaborate, With George Mathew, Chief Medical Officer at DXC Technology

EP252: The Not-So-Obvious Thing That Musculoskeletal Care and a 4-Minute Mile Have in Common, With Chad Gray, CEO of Integrated Musculoskeletal Care

INBW25: Behind the Marketing: Preparing Account Management for Successful Selling Into Health Systems, With Co-Hosts Stacey Richter and Dave Dierk, Co-Presidents of Aventria Health Group

Encore! EP176: Why We Think We're Getting Good Health Care, When We Aren't, With Dr. Robert Pearl, Author and Former CEO of the Permanente Medical Group. Co-hosted by Stacey Richter and Alex Akers

EP251: Preventing Readmissions and Improving Patient Outcomes With Telehealth and Other Digital Tools, With Dr. Kimberly Noel From Stony Brook Medicine

EP250: How to Make Patient-Collected Data Actionable for Shared Decision Making, With Vicky Tiase From NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital

EP249: The War on Financial Toxicity in North Carolina, With Dale Folwell, North Carolina State Treasurer

EP248: United We Could Definitely Stand Against Rising Health Care Costs, With Mark Blum From America's Agenda

EP247: From Quality Measures to Medicare Advantage (Maybe for All) and Price Gouging, With John Gorman, CEO and Chairman of Nightingale Partners

EP246: Even a Dream House Needs Plumbing, and Even Visionary Innovation Needs a Capable EHR Infrastructure, With Pam Arora, SVP and CIO at Children's Health in Dallas

EP245: Arithmetically Impossible, With Al Lewis, Cofounder and CEO of Quizzify

EP244: A Playbook for Jumbo Employers—or Providers, Consultants, Carriers, or Pharma Who Get Paid by Jumbo Employers, With Lee Lewis, Chief Strategy Officer at the Health Transformation Alliance

EP243: Who Will Be Impacted by the Snowball of Drug Pricing Initiatives Pouring Out of Washington Right Now? With Josh LaRosa, MPP, Policy Associate, Wynne Health Group

EP242: The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care—and How to Fix It, With Marty Makary, MD

EP241: Putting the Squeeze on Community Pharmacies, With Vinay Patel, Founder, Self Insured Pharmacy Networks

INBW24: Are Patients Consumers?

EP240: The Inside Scoop on How Medical Travel Improves Health Outcomes and Lowers Costs for Employers, With Olivia Ross, Associate Director of the Employers Centers of Excellence Network

EP239: How to Escape From Legal Purgatory When Collaborating, With Bill Tanenbaum of Polsinelli

EP238: Who Will Be the Knights in Shining Armor Who Fix the American Health Care System? With Brian Klepper, PhD, From the Validation Institute

EP237: Improving Health Care Value by Pausing and Asking Questions, With Derek Winn, Cofounder at Distilled Concepts and Consultant at the Business Benefits Group

EP236: Customer Experience Advice: When Building to Simplicity, It Has to Be Perfect, With Liliana Petrova, CEO/Founder at The Petrova Experience

EP235: The Right Providers Will Maximize Health Care Value. So Who Are the Right Providers? With Suzanne Clough, MD, CMO at ArmadaHealth

EP234: Customer Experience Drives Trust, and the Two Together Drive Outcomes, With Claire Sporton of Confirmit