Relentless Health Value™ Podcast
1) EP485: Imaging Costs 6% to 11% of Plan Sponsor Spend: How Direct Contracting Can Save Money and Improve Access, With Cristin Dickerson, MD
Welcome, Relentless Health Value listeners. Today on the show, we’re talking direct contracting for imaging. Imaging costs can be in the range of 6% to 11% of total plan sponsor spend, and you can fig...Show More
2) Take Two: EP436: Let’s Talk About TPA and Health Plan Inertia Instead of Jumbo Employer Inertia, With Elizabeth Mitchell
Exploring TPA and Health Plan Inertia with Elizabeth Mitchell: What Plan Sponsors Need to Know. In this Take 2 of episode 436 of Relentless Health Value, host Stacey Richter speaks with Elizabeth Mitc...Show More
3) EP484: What Are the 3 Most Burning Questions That Plan Sponsors Have Right Now? With Dave Chase
In Episode 484 of Relentless Health Value, host Stacey Richter talks with Dave Chase from Health Rosetta about the three most pressing questions faced by self-insured employers today. The discussion ...Show More
4) EP483 (Part 2): Reversing the Healthcare Flywheel to Contain Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs, With Jonathan Baran
Okay, to review from Part 1 of this conversation, and if you didn’t listen to it because you think you know how this whole skyrocketing healthcare costs thing works, let me tell you, I myself had a fe...Show More
5) EP483 (Part 1): To Contain Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs or Renewals, You Gotta Understand How the Flywheel Works, With Jonathan Baran
We’re gonna talk about EHR systems today (electronic health records). It was unexpected when Jonathan Baran brought them up, I gotta say. And yet, part of the flywheel, for sure. I see that. But let m...Show More
6) Bonus Add-on to EP483 (Part 1): Honoring Those in Healthcare Who Are Trying Every Day to Do the Right Thing, With Jonathan Baran
Okay … This clip, you could call it a reel, I guess, because kids these days; but I think it is a really important four or five minutes or whatever, because it’s my guest on the pod this week, Jonatha...Show More
7) How Margin Shoves Mission Off of the Bus: A Primary Care Case Study, With Stan Schwartz, MD—Summer Shorts
In this episode, Stacey Richter talks with Dr. Stan Schwartz, co-founder of ZERO.health about the tension between mission-driven healthcare and financial incentives within the healthcare system. Highl...Show More
8) EP482: 3 Surprising Ways Carriers Make Lots of Money—What Do Plan Sponsors and Clinical Organizations Really Need to Know? With Preston Alexander
If you want to save the most money, look where the most money is. You lot listening are like, “No kidding, Sherlock.” If you want to figure out how to cut down the GDP being sucked into healthcare, or...Show More
9) Take Two: EP445: What Does It Take for an Indie Primary Care Practice to Survive Right Now? With Tom X. Lee, MD
Let’s take a second listen to this interview with Dr. Tom Lee that originally aired last summer but listen to it this time within the context first of how primary care can or should reduce ER visits a...Show More
10) Bonus Add-on to Take Two: EP445: Dr. Tom Lee Talks About Why Retail Clinics Are Not Doing So Well, in His Opinion
I clipped out this five-minute sort of sidebar conversation with Tom X. Lee, MD, when I was speaking with him last summer that I thought you might be interested in listening to by itself, because it i...Show More