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June 4, 2024

Designing Better Healthcare Experiences (with Ben Callaghan)

“We need to solve for all of that, so that it's more rewarding, more enjoyable, because that's where the cost savings will come in. That's where the innovation will come." - Ben Callaghan Ben Callaghan, Chief Experience Offic...

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May 28, 2024

How To Stay Disciplined As A Consultant (with Nick Bellanca)

"If you do hard things now, your life will be easy in the future. If you do easy things now, your life will be hard in the future." - Nick Bellanca Nick Bellanca joined me this week to get his …

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May 21, 2024

Bringing Capitalism Back To Healthcare (with Dr. K)

"When your brain is programmed that the only way it can be done is through submitting your insurance and when your brain has been for years and years and years that accepting cash is criminal, it's very hard to break …

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May 14, 2024

The Employer Perspective On Self-Funding (with Stephanie Koch)

“It's the second largest line item that a company has, but they will stroke a check every month for a fully insured program without having data to support what those costs are for.” - Stephanie Koch Stephanie Koch joined the …

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May 7, 2024

Avoiding Unnecessary Surgeries And Imaging (with Heidi Ojha)

“I realized that 95% of the scheduled surgeries, like shoulder/knee repairs, back fusions, even some pelvic floor surgeries, they're no more effective than doing nothing at all, on average.” - Heidi Ojha Heidi Ojha, founder ...

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April 30, 2024

Can Market-Based Pricing Save Healthcare? (with Dr. Keith Smith)

“In what other industry are you just not covered up with business if you're cheaper and better? This is America, for God's sake." - Keith Smith This is a special episode with a special guest: Dr. Keith Smith from the …

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April 23, 2024

From "Sickcare" to "Healthcare": The Future Of This Industry (with Jo…

"No one wins alone. And you know what? You can't do it on your own." - John Butler John Butler, from JB Benefits Consulting, joined the show this week to talk the big-picture future of health insurance. From AI sales …

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April 16, 2024

Diagnosing Your Medical Conditions With AI (with Chris Mathew)

"I don't believe that random doctors should treat random patients in ongoing continuity of care. I don't think that transactional care is good for patients, and I know it's not good for physicians." - Chris Mathew The great C...

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April 12, 2024

The MSK Roundtable, with Chris Hamilton, Heidi Ojha, and Mark Testa

Does bone-on-bone contact always lead to pain? What's the best way to get good, new solutions in the hands of brokers? How many MSK surgeries are really necessary? Chris Hamilton, Heidi Ojha, and Mark Testa joined me in studi...

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April 9, 2024

Why "HR" Became "People" (with Monica Panetta)

"I always knew there was more. I always knew there was a different dimension to what this personnel or HR thing was." - Monica Panetta Monica Panetta, Chief People Officer at ParetoHealth (a show sponsor and the company I wo...

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April 2, 2024

Founding A Healthcare Startup (with Russell Pekala)

"I think the more questions the employer asks, and just the deeper that they're willing to think about this and have already thought about it, the more they're able to buy into this mission." - Russell Pekala Russell Pekala, ...

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March 26, 2024

Actually Making Healthcare Affordable (with Taylor Rogers)

“To me, a private equity firm should never look at a healthcare vertical and say, God, there's opportunity there. That means that there's profit exploitation to be had in those areas.” - Taylor Rogers Taylor Rogers, former pr...

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March 19, 2024

Leveling The Healthcare Playing Field (with Gentry Lynn)

“You can have the same provider, same treatment, two different locations, different outcomes.” - Gentry Lynn Gentry Lynn, VP at Healthcare Bluebook, joined me this week to discuss what it means to actually make an impact in t...

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March 12, 2024

Is Ozempic A Sustainable Solution? (with Durrell Finch)

“It's like the Wizard of Oz, I think, or The Matrix. You have this veil that as the participant in it for so long, you just don't think about your benefits. But I think when you kind of peel back …

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March 5, 2024

How Adapting to Regulations Can Benefit Your Practice (with Jen Berma…

"Compliance does not have to be a burden. It doesn't have to be hard. It can be a value differentiator and an opportunity to really help people." - Jen Berman Jen Berman joined me this week to close out our …

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Feb. 27, 2024

The No Surprises Act and Consumer Protection In Healthcare (with Josh…

"When consumers understand that they can get the same level of care at half the price, they feel good about making that decision." - Josh Schreiner “We're actually going to collapse that concept entirely. Everyone's in networ...

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Feb. 20, 2024

Don't Get Sued: Compliance In The CAA Era (with Sarah Borders)

“The CAA was the most significant piece of healthcare legislation that we've had since the ACA.” - Sarah Borders Healthcare compliance, especially post-CAA, can be a complex thing for employers to navigate. There’s an increas...

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Feb. 13, 2024

Disrupting The Health Insurance Industry (with Jack Crotty)

"I think our industry is craving some disruption - and it needs it." - Jack Crotty What does it actually mean to disrupt the health insurance industry? Jack Crotty, the Director of Business Development of Adyptation, joined m...

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Feb. 6, 2024

How To Build Your Social Media Brand (with Jake Rushton)

"There's no reason you can't make content.There's no excuses. Just get started. Because it could open opportunities you don't even know." - Jake Rushton Jake and I can both honestly say that we would not be where we are in …

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Jan. 30, 2024

Closing the Mental Health Gap (with Megan Rozanski)

“I think we're now at a point where we as a society are recognizing we can't wait until it gets bad enough. And how do we get people into care sooner?" - Megan Rozanski I wanted to close out January …

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Jan. 23, 2024

Direct Primary Care: The Physician Perspective (with Dr. David Camero…

"Whereas the current structure pits [employers, doctors, and patients] against each other, with Direct Primary Care, we all want the same thing." - Dr. David Cameron For Dr. David Cameron, DPC (direct primary care) isn't just...

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Jan. 16, 2024

Demanding Healthcare Justice (with Emma Fox)

"The only thing that will fix healthcare is restoring the doctor patient relationship without anybody in between it." - Emma Fox Emma Fox joins me on this special pre-YouPowered Symposium episode to talk about her healthcare ...

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Jan. 11, 2024

A Couple On A Healthcare Mission (With David Contorno & Emma Fox)

"If you show me the incentives, I'll show you the outcomes." - David Contorno "I want to fix the healthcare system. My mission ended up being to correct the injustices I find in the healthcare system as I find them. …

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Jan. 9, 2024

Health Insurance Shouldn't Be Such A Burden (with David Contorno)

"Health insurance has been so perverted that it becomes the one insurance that we go bankrupt when we use." - David Contorno I was super grateful to have David Contorno, founder of e-Powered Benefits, join me on the podcast f...

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