"I think I'd say our patients deserve better. Our Americans who are encountering the healthcare system deserve better." - Binu Samuel Binu Samuel, Director of Commercial Partnerships at Carrum Health, joined me for the first podcast of 2025 to discuss how we lower healthcare costs for self-funded employers. Binu, and…
Americans Need To Be Educated On The Healthcare System 🇺🇸 #shorts #america #healthcare #insurance We can't ever forget that the choices we make impact human lives. We're their access to care. Matt Glaros and Megan Glaros joined me this week for a podcast discussion focused on how we can use…
The Biggest Problem People Make When Starting To Produce Content #shorts #content #creator #linkedin In the words of Shia LaBeouf, just do it. When it comes to creating content, perfect can often be the enemy of good. If you're just starting out with building your social media presence, you're likely…
"Everybody makes an excuse at the end as to why they didn't post or why they didn't start the thing they really wanted to start." - Me Happy New Year! As a bonus episode this week, I’m sharing a talk I gave at a recent ParetoHealth event about getting started…
How AI Will Change The Insurance Industry 🤖⚕️ #shorts #ai #insurance #healthcare #broker #brokers AI is a tool, and like any tool, it can be used for good and for bad. In the clip below, Matt Glaros shares his view on how AI will impact the healthcare industry: if the…
Why Is Health Insurance So Overcomplicated? #shorts #healthinsurance #insurance #broker #healthcare Health insurance: it's one of the most confusing things in the world, but also one of the most expensive. Not a great combination. Matt Glaros shares why it's so important to break down health insurance information in a simple,…
"They have to understand the value. That’s how you get people to use it." - Megan Glaros “I had somebody who said once, why take a pill when you can get a shot? That's the way we kind of treat health, is like, just treat us with medication.” - Matt…
Why This Physician Felt Complicit In Hurting American People 🩺 #shorts #healthcare #health #podcast Before being nominated to head the FDA, Marty Makary M.D., wrote the hugely impactful book "The Price We Pay". As Tiffany Ryder shared in this week's episode of Self-Funded with Spencer, that book was what opened…
"I felt like I was putting $10,000 bandaids on someone's diabetic ketoacidosis instead of actually helping them to never be there in the first place." - Tiffany Ryder Tiffany Ryder, medical physician associate and healthcare advocate, joined me this week to continue the theme of my previous episode: how do…
American Healthcare Doesn't Have To Be Like This 🇺🇸 #shorts #healthcare #insurance #healthinsurance
Here's What To Do If Your Hospital Bill Is Too High: #shorts #advocacy #medicalbilling #hospitals Medical billing errors shouldn't be so commonplace. But because they are, healthcare patient advocates are hugely important. I've personally used them in the past, and Jenni shared several stories on this week's episode of Self-Funded…
Healthcare Can, And Should, Be Affordable For Americans 🇺🇸🩺 #shorts #america #healthcare #podcast "Everybody in this country is a patient, so this applies to all of us." Jenni Nolan, BCPA is right: healthcare doesn't have to be this way. It can, and should, be affordable for average Americans. Education is…
"I think that the general public thinks that health care is just expensive and this is just the way it has to be. It doesn't. And I think if more people knew that they would rise up and fight the system, fight for change.” - Jenni Nolan Jenni Nolan, Board-Certified…
Why Are We Wasting Money? The Key Problem with Healthcare Plans #shorts #waste #healthcare #benefits If an MIT engineer can't figure out how to utilize his healthcare plan, something is seriously wrong. David Mallen shares an epiphany he had in the clip below when discussing an ACA plan with an…
Texting Is The Future of Healthcare Communication #podcast #shorts #marketing #healthcare #benefits 98% of text messages are read in less than two minutes. David Mallen from HealthJoy joined me this week on Self-Funded with Spencer to discuss how we can make health plans more effective by educating members. That starts…
"Any time you can reward employees for doing the right thing, to me, it's benefiting the employer group, it’s benefitting everybody.” - David Mallen You can provide employees with the best healthcare benefits in the world, but if they don’t know how to navigate the healthcare system, those benefits aren’t…
23 Years Old With A 10% Chance To Live #cancer #stage4 #melanoma #shorts #healthcare #survivor It's impossible to imagine what it's like to be told you have a 10% chance to live at 23. As Dylan Slattery shared on this week's episode of Self-Funded with Spencer, it completely changed the…
How Stage 4 Cancer Taught Dylan To Live With Purpose #shorts #cancer #survivor #cancersurvivor "Living with more purpose and passion." Dylan Slattery's main takeaway from beating stage 4 cancer, against all odds. In this clip, Dylan shares the story of witnessing a family celebrating the life of somebody who recently…
"Looking back now, cancer gave me something to fight for at a time when I felt like maybe life wasn't worth fighting for." - Dylan Slattery Dylan Slattery, VP at ClaimsBridge and motivational speaker at Stage Four 2 On Stage, joined me this week to share his powerful story of…
Doctors DON'T Remember You From Last Year #shorts #doctor #doctors #healthcare #primarycare #podcast "I'm an ear, nose, and throat doctor. We don't remember your eardrums from last year." "I don't care what people tell you, they don't remember 3000 eardrums." Danish Nagda joined me on Self-Funded with Spencer this week…
AI Will Help Restore The Doctor-Patient Relationship 🤖 #podcast #ai #healthcare #doctor #ai #shorts Danish Nagda, founder of Rezilient Health, worked as an ear, nose, and throat doctor and saw the potential for technology to help doctors be able to focus on their patients. Primary care doctors see more patients…
“I’m going to say something that people claim isn’t true, but it is. I’m an ear nose and throat doctor. I don't remember your eardrum from last year. I don't care what people tell you, doctors don't remember 3,000 eardrums.” - Danish Nagda Danish Nagda, founder of Rezilient, has come…
Nurses Know Which Hospitals Have Quality Care 👩⚕️ #nurse #nurses #hospitals #healthcare #insurance How do you tell the quality of a hospital? Ask a nurse if they'd take their family there. Kimberly Carleson and Linda Komisak joined me on Self-Funded with Spencer to talk about tracking quality metrics using nurse…
Americans Are Being Kept In The Dark 🇺🇸 #insurance #healthcare #healthinsurance #podcast #shorts Until there's real transparency in this industry, the American people are being kept in the dark. As Linda Komisak and I share in this clip, we often don't even know what we're paying for, or the true…
