The Aduhelm Scandal: How a Failed Drug Spiked Medicare Costs
"Why are we paying $10,000 for a $30 drug?" My guest this week is Pramod John, a former Silicon Valley tech entrepreneur who entered the healthcare space to tackle the largest economic problem in the country: skyrocketing healthcare costs. Pramod quickly realized that healthcare's dysfunction is actually not a technology…
How a Drug That Failed Trials Still Got Approved
The Financial Impact of Choosing Urgent Care Over Primary Care
Is the traditional healthcare model actually destroying the doctors who work inside it? In this clip from Self-Funded with Spencer, Dr. William Steelman details the breaking point of his career in the hospital system - a moment of "moral injury" and burnout so severe his wife would check if he…
Why DPC is 'Concierge Medicine for the Masses'
Direct Primary Care Is the 'New Standard' of Medicine
Why Doctors Are Often Sicker Than Their Patients
The 'Keto' Fix for Anxiety & Depression
Why Direct Primary Care Is The Only Way Forward | The Physician Burnout Crisis "My wife would come back to check on me late at night, asleep at the keyboard, and she would be like, 'Is he dead?' The burnout, what we call moral injury, is more real than anybody…
Your Benefits Are Great. Nobody Cares.
Why Expensive Healthcare Is Actually Worse
Why Self-Funding Is No Longer a 'Choice'
Michael Porter's Definition: Value = Outcome / Cost
If you'd like your question answered on next month's episode, call/text 469-213-6381 and leave us a voicemail/text. Each month on Last Month In Healthcare, producer Nathaniel joins me to discuss the previous month's podcasts, headlines, and listener-submitted questions. This month, we’re joined by John Kountz from Frost Insurance! We react…
What is the difference between "Fee-For-Service" and a "Bundled Payment"? In this clip, Ryan Wells (Health Here) breaks down the mechanics of Episodic Care. He explains how bundling consolidates every aspect of a surgery—physician fees, facility costs, anesthesia, and physical therapy—into a single, transparent price. We discuss why this model…
The "Metal on Metal" hip recall was a tipping point for orthopedics. It was a massive failure of design and surgical technique that resulted in ions being released into patients' bodies. But as Ryan Wells points out, it also forced a necessary correction. It pushed the industry to stop assuming…
The Only Way to Force Hospitals to Be Efficient
"If you ask the surgeon how much time they have to spend thinking about the business side of their practice, it's too high... Let's let doctors be doctors." - Ryan Wells My guest this week is Ryan Wells, Founder and CEO of Health Here. Ryan joins me to explain why…
Let Doctors Be Doctors: Stop the Admin Hell
Stop Accepting 'That's Just How We Do It'
