B-Time with Beth Bierbower

Over the last several years, new Medicare Advantage plans have emerged, each one attempting to change the consumer experience.  Today we’re talking with Myong Lee, the CEO and Co-founder of a unique Medicare Advantage plan called Clever Care.  Based in the greater Los Angeles area, Clever Care incorporates Eastern Medicine into its benefit plan designs to better serve the members of the community.  Myong will share how he is integrating services that are important to his members into the Medicare Advantage experience.

Show notes: Book Myong is currently reading: The Essays of Warren Buffet: Lessons for Corporate America, Fifth Edition by Lawrence A. Cunningham.

Show notes: Recommended Book: The Price We Pay: What Broke American Healthcare and How to Fix It by Marty Makary, MD.

ZocDoc was founded in 2007 to help consumers find and book provider visits online. Over the last 15 years ZocDoc has persevered in the helping providers keep their schedules full.  ZocDoc Chief Legal Officer, Bruce Gottlieb joins B-Time to share ZocDoc’s journey and how it has made strategic decisions around its business model that has enabled it to scale.

Show notes: Book Recommendations: Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe; Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt; The New Map: Energy, Climate and the Clash of Nations by Daniel Yergin; A Long Walk To Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela by Nelson Mandela with Michael Boatman et al; The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power, Means of Ascent, Master of the Senate, The Passage of Power by Robert Caro (A 4 book series).

We’ve mentioned “the race to the home” numerous times on this podcast.  Today, our guest will help us understand what it means to deliver care in the home.  With us is Dan Trigub, Co-founder and CEO of MedArrive, a company that is delivering preventive care in the home. Dan will share MedArrive’s approach and how and why it has been successful not only in preventing unnecessary admissions and trips the ER, but also how MedArrive has been successful in engaging marginalized individuals.

Usually when I state that someone has prior healthcare experience, you may wonder for which health plan, health system or another provider did he or she work.  Dan worked for Uber and Lyft in their healthcare divisions. While those may not be the credentials you are expecting when you hear “healthcare experience,” it is exactly the experience needed when you think about in-home delivery of care because these companies deeply understood the concept of a platform, logistics and engagement.

Today we are going to talk about a variety of topics from AI to care after COVID and Social Determinants of Health.  With me is one of the nation’s most well-known healthcare thought leaders.  David B. Nash is the Founding Dean Emeritus, and he remains on the full-time faculty as the Dr. Raymond C. and Doris N. Grandon Professor of Health Policy, at the Jefferson College of Population Health (JCPH).  A board-certified internist, Dr. Nash is internationally recognized for his work in public accountability for outcomes, physician leadership development, and quality-of-care improvement.  He has published and peer reviewed articles and given many lectures that highlighted critical healthcare issues.

Dr. Nash has served on boards for public and private companies, health systems, healthcare accrediting organizations and many more.  His contributions and accomplishments are too numerous for us to share but I will link his profile in the show notes.  I’ll wrap this introduction up by saying Dr. Nash has had an immeasurable positive impact in healthcare.

Show Notes:  Dr. Nash’s LinkedIn Profile:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidbnash/  He follows Robert Pearl, Merrill Goozner (Gooz News) and Leana Wen.

In today’s episode, Rich Powers educates us on the status of value based care in the industry today.  Rich has deep expertise in provider contracting, managing risk-based relationships and value based care.  He spent the bulk of his career at Humana and worked at Alignment Health before joining P3 Health Partners.  Rich will provide his perspective on the role of primary care and will introduce us to P3 Health Partners as well.

Show Notes:  Books: The Bad Guys Won: A Season of Brawling, Boozing, Bimbo Chasing, and Championship Baseball with Straw, Doc, Mookie, Nails, The Kid, and the Rest of the 1986 Mets, the Rowdiest Team Ever to Put on a New York Uniform and Maybe the Best  By Jeff Pearlman ; The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larsen.

We have a special episode today recorded live at Quest Analytic's annual conference -- Vision Quest.  Dr. Caroline Carney, Chief Medical Officer of Magellan Health joins me to discuss networks, behavioral health, collaborative care and more. 

Our guest today is an accomplished senior healthcare executive, an innovator, and business transformation leader.  With me is Mohan Nair, CEO of Emerge Inc.,a company that help’s companies find the Innovator’s Mojo, the driving force for business transformation.   Mohan is the former SVP/ CINO (chief Innovation officer) Of Cambia Health Solutions in Portland, Oregon and is an Edmund Hillary Fellow, New Zealand where he helps others bring cause-centered ideas to practical solutions .  Mohan was the founder of transparency company HealthSparq, is the author of three books, one if which we will focus on today.  He is also a musician with twenty copyrighted original songs and has spoken TedX and done much more.

Show notes:  People that Mohan follows:

Marc Benioff, Tony Robbins, Daniel Kraft, Arianna Huffington, Stefano Bini

Digital therapeutics is offered across a growing number of medical conditions with demonstrated success. 

Our guest today is Aaron Gani, Founder and CEO of BehaVR a company that uses virtual reality to help individuals with mental and behavioral health challenges.  I think you will be blown away when you learn how these tools can make a real difference in both outcomes and costs.

Show notes: The Digital Therapeutics Alliance.  Aaron’s company is BehaVR.com.  Book:  The Content Trap: A Strategists Guide to Digital Change by Bharat Anand.