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EP527: Why Should a Plan Sponsor Care About the 340B Charity Program? With Shawn Gremminger
Listen on Your Favorite App Today we are going to answer one question on the pod: If I am a plan sponsor or a purchaser, why do I care about 340B? So, that's coming up in T-minus, I'm gonna say, four minutes. If you wanna cut to the chase, skip ahead. Before we get to that, however, for those of you...
EP526: Generic Compliance Ratios, Pass-Through Contracts, and Other Pharmacy Plumbing, With Mark Cuban and Cora Opsahl
Listen on Your Favorite App Hello, all you Relentless Tribe members. If you have listened to this show for any length of time, you know one of our favorite truths around here, which is where there's mystery, there's margin. But today, we aren't just here to point out the mystery. We're here to look ...
EP525: PMPM vs FFS—The Perverse Incentives Plan Sponsors Sometimes Miss, With Cristin Dickerson, MD
Listen on Your Favorite App So, this one's gonna be a little bit different. Back last year, I sat down with Dr. Cristin Dickerson. She is the founding partner of Green Imaging , which is a physician-led radiology network doing direct contracting for imaging. And we talked about how imaging can run 6...
EP524: Beating Provider Network Pricing Games by Thinking About Buying Healthcare Like a Manufacturer Supply Chain, With John Quinn
Listen on Your Favorite App Hello, all you Relentless Tribe members. First off here, I would like to thank Casey Cormier for the really nice recurring donation. Thank you so much, Casey Cormier from Stratis Group . Lately, traditional provider networks are increasingly being called into questi...
EP523: The Sleeping Giants of Healthcare—Why Self-insured Employers and Clinicians Keep Missing Each Other, With Suhas Gondi, MD, MBA
Listen on Your Favorite App Hello, all you Relentless Tribe members. Before we dive in today, I just wanted to give a quick but massive thank you to Alex Sommers, MD, ABEM, DipABLM, from Astia Health for his generous gift, which we are going to use to help fund a camera for the podcast here to level...
EP522: How Exactly Does GoodRx Make Money? With Ge Bai, PhD, CPA
Listen on Your Favorite App Arielle Bose: Hi, Stacey. This is Arielle Bose from EHD Insurance . Big fan of the podcast. We were talking about GoodRx the other day, and it occurred to me that I’m not exactly clear about how they make money. So, Stacey, how does GoodRx make money? For a full transcrip...
EP521: How Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) Became an Over $200 Billion Healthcare Hot Potato, With Andrew Tsang
Listen on Your Favorite App Hey, welcome to Relentless Health Value. Okay … so, on today's show, we are talking about (Andrew Tsang and I) revenue cycle management, which—I say this with real affection—is maybe the least sexy phrase in all of healthcare. It sounds like a back-office spreadsheet prob...
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
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
Listen on Your Favorite App Dr. Alex Sommers: Hi. I'm Alex Sommers. I'm president of Astia Health, an advanced direct primary care organization, an emergency medicine and lifestyle medicine physician, as well as a licensed employer health plan advisor from Wisconsin. I'm curious how you explain the ...