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Relentless Health Value Podcast

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American Healthcare Executives You Might Want to Know. Talking. Relentless Health Value is one of the most listened to weekly healthcare industry podcasts. The show has been hosted by Stacey Richter since 2014. A dynamic healthcare entrepreneur.

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Relentless Health Value Podcast @relentleshealth.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
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EP533: Level Funding Is Self-funding: 5 Avoidable Contract Risks, With Frank Pennachio
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Relentless Health Value Podcast @relentleshealth.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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EP532: Why Avoidable ER Visits Aren't the Real Cost Problem: Revisiting Our 2016 Interview With HHS Nominee Chris Klomp
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Relentless Health Value Podcast @relentleshealth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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EP531: Slaying the Three-Headed Monster of Health Plan Networks, With Evan Anderson
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Relentless Health Value Podcast @relentleshealth.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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EP529: How Stark Law, Stipends, and Noncompetes Drive Hospital Consolidation, With Eric Bricker, MD
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Relentless Health Value Podcast @relentleshealth.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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EP528: The Current State of Primary Care—Inevitable or Fixable? Will It Be Private Equity to the Rescue? With Yashaswini Singh, PhD
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Relentless Health Value Podcast @relentleshealth.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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EP526: Generic Compliance Ratios, Pass-Through Contracts, and Other Pharmacy Plumbing, With Mark Cuban and Cora Opsahl
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Relentless Health Value Podcast @relentleshealth.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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EP525: PMPM vs FFS—The Perverse Incentives Plan Sponsors Sometimes Miss, With Cristin Dickerson, MD
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Relentless Health Value Podcast @relentleshealth.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
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EP524: Beating Provider Network Pricing Games by Thinking About Buying Healthcare Like a Manufacturer Supply Chain, With John Quinn
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Relentless Health Value Podcast @relentleshealth.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
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EP523: The Sleeping Giants of Healthcare—Why Self-insured Employers and Clinicians Keep Missing Each Other, With Suhas Gondi, MD, MBA
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Relentless Health Value Podcast @relentleshealth.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
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EP522: How Exactly Does GoodRx Make Money? With Ge Bai, PhD, CPA
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Relentless Health Value Podcast @relentleshealth.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
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EP521: How Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) Became an Over $200 Billion Healthcare Hot Potato, With Andrew Tsang
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Relentless Health Value Podcast @relentleshealth.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
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EP520: Cash-Pay Generic Drugs Are a Functioning Market in Healthcare—Policymakers Beware and Be Careful
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Relentless Health Value Podcast @relentleshealth.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
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EP519: The Current State of Primary Care—Inevitable or Fixable? With Lisa Rosenbaum, MD
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Relentless Health Value Podcast @relentleshealth.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
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EP517: The Business of Prior Auths: The 401-Level Financial Motive Behind Prior Auths
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 23/06/2026
ADA leaders were forcibly removed from their own meeting for sharing copies of an ADA OpEd critical of Jay Bhattacharya. Thanks to you it's now got >125,000 views. As CDC interim director, Jay also blocked publication of this paper because it showed that COVID vaccines work. You know what to do.
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Interim Estimated Effectiveness of 2025-2026 COVID-19 Vaccines in Adults
This case-control study estimates vaccine effectiveness of 2025-2026 COVID-19 vaccines among adults with COVID-19–associated emergency department or urgent care encounters and COVID-19–associated hosp...
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Relentless Health Value Podcast @relentleshealth.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
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EP516: GLP-1s and Cash Pay From the Pharma Manufacturer Point of View, With Ophelia Johnson
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Relentless Health Value Podcast @relentleshealth.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
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EP515: SNF (Skilled Nursing Facility) Fraud—Or Is It Fraud? With Michelle Cera, PhD
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Relentless Health Value Podcast @relentleshealth.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
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EP514: Successfully Suing a Health System for Their Anticompetitive Contracts and Also Collecting Damages for Plan Sponsors and Members, With Matt Cantor
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Relentless Health Value Podcast @relentleshealth.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
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EP513: Revisiting Cunning Anticompetitive Hospital Contracts, With Brennan Bilberry
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Relentless Health Value Podcast @relentleshealth.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
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EP513: Revisiting Cunning Anticompetitive Hospital Contracts, With Brennan Bilberry
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Relentless Health Value Podcast @relentleshealth.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
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EP512: 3 Kinds of Broker/EBC Rent-Seeking Payment Models—A Lawyer's Perspective, With Doug Aldeen
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David Schleifer @davidschleifer.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
June 2 I'll be at the Center on Health Insurance Reforms at Georgetown for a discussion on ERISA and its role in advancing #healthcare affordability, moderated by Stacey Richter of @relentleshealth.bsky.social Register at bit.ly/ERISA26
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Relentless Health Value Podcast @relentleshealth.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
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EP512: 3 Kinds of Broker/EBC Rent-Seeking Payment Models - A Lawyer’s Perspective, With Doug Aldeen
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David Schleifer @davidschleifer.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Is ERISA up for the job? I'm looking forward to this conversation June 2 at Georgetown on how ERISA can keep #healthcare costs in check, where it is falling short, and opportunities to help employers purchase more effectively, with Stacey Richter of @relentleshealth.bsky.social bit.ly/ERISA26
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Relentless Health Value Podcast @relentleshealth.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
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EP511: The Tension When Clinical Teams Take On Risk for Policymakers and Others Looking to Rustle Up Future Perverse Incentives, With Dr. Siva and Monica Lypson, MD, MHPE
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Relentless Health Value Podcast @relentleshealth.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
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EP509: The 7.7% Wake-Up Call: A Roadmap to Align Finance Teams With Non-complacent Benefit Design, With Patrick Nelli
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Relentless Health Value Podcast @relentleshealth.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
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EP508: Why Don't More Self-insured CEOs Take Bold Action in Health Benefits Strategy? With Lee Lewis
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Relentless Health Value Podcast @relentleshealth.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
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EP507: 4 Core Concepts to Buy or Deliver the Highest-Value Healthcare—A Review
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Relentless Health Value Podcast @relentleshealth.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
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EP506: How Other Employers, Shareholders, and Clinics Are Using Price Transparency Data—And It's an Arms Race, With Jerry DiMaso
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Relentless Health Value Podcast @relentleshealth.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
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EP505: The Death of the "What Is Value" Guessing Game for Clinical and Plan Decision-Makers Ready to Move On, With Ahilan Sivaganesan, MD
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Relentless Health Value Podcast @relentleshealth.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
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EP504: A Back-to-Basics Roadmap Through the Perverse Incentives to Advanced Primary Care, With Ryan Jacobs
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Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) @icer-review.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
ICER President and CEO Sarah K. Emond joined the @relentleshealth.bsky.social pod to discuss the tensions that exist in drug pricing and how paying for value can help fix them. Listen: cc-lnk.com/EP494. The bonus episode talks about ICER's work and more: cc-lnk.com/EP494-BonusC....
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EP494: Six Tensions of Pharmaceutical Drug Pricing, With Sarah Emond | A Scrupulously Fair Assessment of What is Wrong and Right about American Healthcare - A Healthcare Industry Podcast
Listen On Your Favorite App I was out drinking martinis with Cora Opsahl, director of 32BJ Health Fund , and Cora said, "Look, most plan sponsors' biggest...
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Melissa Block @melissablock.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Just calculated our 2026 health insurance premium on the DC health exchange. It will be nearly a **300%** increase. We’d have to pay $50,590 for a family of 3, for a mid-range plan. Insane.
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David Schleifer @davidschleifer.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Great ep. of @relentleshealth.bsky.social with Elizabeth Mitchell discussing why PBGH embarked on its big #healthcare cost and quality transparency project and how the findings are empowering employers with comparative price info buff.ly/VhXa290 #healthcare #healthpolicy #healthecon
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EP491: Incumbent TPAs and Consultants Getting Called to Jumbo Employer Client HQ to Answer Awkward Questions, With Elizabeth Mitchell | A Scrupulously Fair Assessment of What is Wrong and Right about American Healthcare - A Healthcare Industry Podcast
Elizabeth Mitchell of PBGH, joins Relentless Health Value to share insights on health care purchasing and the challenges for incumbent TPAs.
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Relentless Health Value Podcast @relentleshealth.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
We just dropped this fantastic episode with Elizabeth Mitchell from the Purchaser Business Group on Health (PBGH). It's a must listen for self-insured employers. Check out the show notes for a link to the PBGH Health Care Data Demonstration Project covering... cc-lnk.com/EP491
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EP491: Incumbent TPAs and Consultants Getting Called to Jumbo Employer Client HQ to Answer Awkward Questions, With Elizabeth Mitchell | A Scrupulously Fair Assessment of What is Wrong and Right about ...
Listen On Your Favorite App Today, back on the pod, we have Elizabeth Mitchell, CEO of PBGH , the Purchaser Business Group on Health. Elizabeth Mitchell is...
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Relentless Health Value Podcast @relentleshealth.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
When buyers and sellers don’t both know the price before the transaction, can we really call it a market? Sometimes hospital “razor-thin margins” reflect true financial strain. But sometimes, they reflect the absence of a competitive marketplace...
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Relentless Health Value Podcast @relentleshealth.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
In today’s continuation of the Mission/Margin series, we dig into a key question: What happens when clinical organizations balance mission with financial sustainability? Dan Greenleaf, CEO of Duly, who believes mission can drive margin, breaks mission down into four measurable quadrants... (1/2)
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EP489: Achieving Mission That Is a Path to Margin at a Multispecialty Practice, With Dan Greenleaf | A Scrupulously Fair Assessment of What is Wrong and Right about American Healthcare - A Healthcare ...
Turning mission into margin in a multi-specialty practice with Dan Greenleaf, CEO of Duly Health and Care. Practical insights on clinic profitability.
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Relentless Health Value Podcast @relentleshealth.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Reflecting deeply on my latest discussion with the insightful @mcuban.bsky.social and Cora Opsahl. We explored the real-world impacts of high deductible health plans and the potential of direct contracting to simplify healthcare. #HealthcareLeadership cc-lnk.com/EP488
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EP488: Mark Cuban, Cora Opsahl, Trust, Simplicity, and a Chicken—Today We Talk Healthcare | A Scrupulously Fair Assessment of What is Wrong and Right about American Healthcare - A Healthcare Industry ...
Mark Cuban and Cora Opsahl, on the best healthcare podcast, discuss trust and simplicity in healthcare.
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Relentless Health Value Podcast @relentleshealth.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Former Police Detective Kevin Lyons, now Executive Director at the NJ State PBA, joins the show to investigate the three biggest barriers preventing the public sector from securing better, more affordable health benefits. (1 of 3)
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EP487 (Part 1): A Former Police Detective Investigates the 3 Big Barriers to the Public Sector Getting Better Affordable Health Benefits, With Kevin Lyons | A Scrupulously Fair Assessment of What is W...
Kevin Lyons, on the best healthcare podcast, discusses barriers to better health benefits.
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Relentless Health Value Podcast @relentleshealth.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Why do #HealthcareCosts keep rising, even when everyone’s “saving”? Discounts, rebates, and shared savings may not be cutting costs at all. We pick up this thread in the latest episode, digging into why the discount might just sit at the center of the healthcare flywheel. cc-lnk.com/EP483-Part1
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EP483 (Part 1): To Contain Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs or Renewals, You Gotta Understand How the Flywheel Works, With Jonathan Baran | A Scrupulously Fair Assessment of What is Wrong and Right about...
Jonathan Baran, on the best healthcare podcast, discusses increasing healthcare costs and renewals.
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Relentless Health Value Podcast @relentleshealth.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Remember that episode with Dr. Eric Bricker (EP472) about hospitals boosting revenue through stop-loss contract provisions while claiming “0% increase”? This week, Kimberly Carleson joins me to uncover even more ways health systems may increase the revenue taken from plan sponsors. cc-lnk.com/EP480
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EP480: Payment Integrity Meets Health System Boasts, Such as Our Rates Are 2x Medicare, With Kimberly Carleson | A Scrupulously Fair Assessment of What is Wrong and Right about American Healthcare - A...
Kimberly Carleson, on the best healthcare podcast, discusses health system payment integrity.
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Relentless Health Value Podcast @relentleshealth.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
I sat down with Peter Hayes to answer a huge question—what are the real forces of change in #healthcare? Peter has spent decades on the front lines of benefits strategy, healthcare reform, & system transformation. In this episode, we try to step back and look at the big picture. (continued)
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EP475: Is This a Moment or a Movement? With Peter Hayes | A Scrupulously Fair Assessment of What is Wrong and Right about American Healthcare - A Healthcare Industry Podcast
Peter Hayes, on the best healthcare podcast, discusses temporary and permanent healthcare changes.
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Relentless Health Value Podcast @relentleshealth.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Private equity has invested over $1 trillion in U.S. #healthcare in the past decade. This week I spoke with Yashaswini Singh, PhD, of Brown, a leading researcher tracking the corporate transformation of medicine. “You’ve seen one private equity strategy, you’ve seen one private equity strategy.”
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EP474: Private Equity in Healthcare—The Big Data Points You Really Need to Know, All Together in One Episode, With Yashaswini Singh, PhD | A Scrupulously Fair Assessment of What is Wrong and Right abo...
Yashaswini Singh, PhD, on the best healthcare podcast, discusses private equity in healthcare.
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Relentless Health Value Podcast @relentleshealth.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
This is such a fantastic article by Craig Gottwals, distilling the conversation we had with Dr. Eric Bricker into such an actionable format. www.linkedin.com/pulse/whale-...
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Whale Season: How Hospitals Engineer and Harpoon $800,000 Patients
If you spend your days helping self-funded employers rein in runaway healthcare costs, drop what you're doing and go listen to Episode 472 of the Relentless Health Value podcast. In fact, make a doubl...
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Relentless Health Value Podcast @relentleshealth.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
This week, Dr. Eric Bricker and I examine how hospitals profit off of high-cost claimants. You’ll hear how big systems use a 3-prong playbook involving chargemasters, stop-loss contracts, and “net-zero” pricing sleights of hand. The motto for this one? All costs are somebody else’s revenue...
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Eric Bricker, MD on Hospital Revenue | The Best Healthcare Podcast | A Scrupulously Fair Assessment of What is Wrong and Right about American Healthcare - A Healthcare Industry Podcast
Eric Bricker, MD, joins the best healthcare podcast to discuss how hospitals maximize revenue and manage high-cost claimants.
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Relentless Health Value Podcast @relentleshealth.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Ever wondered how Medicaid cuts impact rural hospitals? In this episode, Stacey Richter and Nikki King explore the financial struggles these hospitals face and discuss solutions like telehealth and nurse practitioners. We cover why having a good payer mix essential, and... (continued)
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EP470: Continuing the ER and Primary Care Through Line Over to Rural Hospitals and Healthcare, With Nikki King, DHA | A Scrupulously Fair Assessment of What is Wrong and Right about American Healthcar...
So, the show today, it’s sort of an encore but not really an encore because I recorded this whole new introduction that you are currently listening to. And I...
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Relentless Health Value Podcast @relentleshealth.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
What do Medicaid cuts mean for employers? James Gelfand, from ERIC, joins us to explore this issue on our latest episode. -Proposed Medicaid changes could spark state-level tax increases. -Your workforce might be impacted by Medicaid enrollment shifts. -Hospitals might respond with price hikes.
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EP469 (Part 1): The Impact on Plan Sponsors of Medicaid Cuts, With James Gelfand, JD | A Scrupulously Fair Assessment of What is Wrong and Right about American Healthcare - A Healthcare Industry Podca...
I was talking to Cora Opsahl the other day, and the topic of Medicaid came up—mostly how the current Medicaid goings-on will impact plan sponsors, if at all....
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Relentless Health Value Podcast @relentleshealth.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Primary Care Is an Investment—Everything Else Is a Cost Emergency room visits now account for 6% of total plan sponsor spend—and that’s an insane number. So here’s the big question: Why are patients turning to the ER for care that should be handled in primary care settings? (continued)
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EP467: Connecting Sky-High ER Spend to Primary Care Access—Following the Dollar Through Carriers and Hospitals, With Stacey Richter | A Scrupulously Fair Assessment of What is Wrong and Right about Am...
Stacey Richter, on the best healthcare podcast, discusses ER spend and primary care access.
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Relentless Health Value Podcast @relentleshealth.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Are your health insurance premiums rising faster than inflation? Yes. Are employees paying an even bigger portion of those rising premiums? Also yes. That’s the double whammy hitting employees right now—higher absolute costs AND a bigger slice of the burden. But why? (continued in thread)
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EP466: What Is Rising Faster, Insurance Premiums or Hospital Prices? With Vivian Ho, PhD | A Scrupulously Fair Assessment of What is Wrong and Right about American Healthcare - A Healthcare Industry P...
This episode has three chapters. Each one answers a key question, and, bottom line, it all adds up to action steps directly and indirectly for many, including...
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Relentless Health Value Podcast @relentleshealth.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Ever heard of a $50 drug costing $10,000 through insurance? Sounds absurd, right? Yet, this exact scenario is at the center of a lawsuit involving J&J’s pharmacy benefits plan and a large PBM. This week in this #healthcarepodcast I spoke with Chris Crawford of RxSaveCard. Continued in thread...
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EP465: The Not Super Effective Contracting Industry Norm, Where Jumbo Plans and Others Wind Up Paying $10,000 for $50 Drugs, With Chris Crawford | A Scrupulously Fair Assessment of What is Wrong and R...
First of all, everybody listening here has probably heard of the lawsuit in which J&J—and talking about J&J as a large employer here now, not as a drug...
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