Episode 5: Payment Automation and Buffalo Bills w/ Emily Smythe On this episode hosts Angie Shin and Dave Smith explore insights from the ECW conference, compare Luma's offerings with competitors, and highlight the importance of financial transparency and automation in enhancing patient experience. The discussion also addresses challenges in implementation and the cultural shifts within healthcare organizations as they adapt to new technologies. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen

In this session, Stuart Newsome will share common themes emerging from real radiology practice conversations and explore the operational breaking points that are slowing down revenue, frustrating staff, and creating patient access delays. Radiology revenue cycle teams are being stretched by prior authorization complexity, staffing shortages, payer policy changes, fragmented systems, and denials that often begin long before the claim is submitted. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen

Host Ericka Adler is joined by Dennis Thornton, health care real estate advisor at CARR, to discuss how physicians and other health care practitioners can make informed real estate decisions when leasing, purchasing or expanding their practices. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen

The Borderless Healthcare Revolution Is Already Here Dr. Sarah Matt discusses themes from her book The Borderless Healthcare Revolution, what consumer-centered health means from a surgeon’s point of view, and why we can’t burn down the system even when we see so many flaws.  All that, plus a recap of the Rap Community's June Think Tank chat about the ongoing move to preventive health. Join the free community at https://healthcarerapcommunity.com to attend our monthly chats.  Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen/

S2E1: Why Healthcare AI Success Starts With Governance, Not Technology, with Ben Scharfe, Executive Vice President of AI Initiatives at Altera Digital Health On this episode, host Dr. Heather Bassett welcomes Ben Scharfe, Executive Vice President of AI Initiatives at Altera Digital Health, to make the case that the biggest lever in healthcare AI isn't the model — it's the foundation underneath it. Ben traces his unconventional path from accounting and financial leadership into healthcare AI, and argues that the same continuous-learning mindset that got him there is what teams need most as the technology keeps shifting. He walks through Altera's approach to building a care intelligence platform grounded in data quality, provenance, and access controls before layering on more sophisticated AI capabilities, and explains why transparency and citations to curated clinical sources matter for earning clinician trust rather than operating as a black box. Ben and Dr. Bassett dig into a risk-based approach to agentic autonomy — giving AI more latitude on low-risk administrative tasks while keeping tighter, deterministic guardrails around higher-acuity decisions. They also cover the real economics of scaling agentic AI, from understanding the cost of a ""unit of work"" to avoiding technically impressive but needlessly expensive architectures, and discuss how ambient AI's biggest wins — clinician satisfaction, reduced burnout, retention — often show up before the financial ROI does. Throughout, Ben's message is consistent: start with the problem you're trying to solve, not the AI you want to use. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen

When Doing the Right Thing Pays: Community Health Centers and the Future of Value-Based Care Host Dr. Robert Murry, CMO at NextGen Healthcare talks with Bob Theis, chief executive officer of Samuel U. Rodgers Health Center, about why health centers are uniquely positioned to lead the shift toward value-based care. Community health centers have long delivered the kind of whole-person, outcomes-focused care that value-based models are designed to reward. They discuss how accurate risk capture, attention to social needs, and proactive Medicaid outreach help patients stay connected to care. Theis also shares how one patient-centered program reduced emergency room visits among a group of 250 patients from approximately 1,500 per year to fewer than 400. The conversation also explores how data, AI and automation can reduce administrative burden, strengthen documentation and give care teams more time to focus on patients. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen

Building an AI Lead Scoring System That Boosted Conversion by 70% Your marketing engine is generating leads, but how do you know which ones are actually worth handing to sales? That is the question at the heart of this episode, and it is one that gets harder to answer the bigger your funnel gets. On this episode, host Adam Turinas sits down with Nick Panayi, a technology marketing veteran who most recently led marketing at Inovalon. If you listened to the episode with Nick last year, you know he has spent his career at the intersection of marketing and AI. This time he is back to walk Adam through something he built with his partner Chris Marin: an AI-powered lead scoring system that moved his team’s MQL-to-opportunity conversion rate from 10 percent to 17 percent in a single quarter. That is a 70 percent improvement in lead conversion. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen

S1E8: Caris Life Sciences Series - Part 2 of 3: The Access: Liquid Biopsy and Expanding Access to Precision Oncology Host Shahid Shah with his guest Joseph C. Murray, MD, PhD, is Senior Medical Director at Caris Life Sciences. To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www.HealthcareNOWRadio.com or ask your Smart Device to “….Play Healthcare NOW Radio”. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen

On this episode hosts Fred and Gregg welcome David Shulkin, MD who served as U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs under President Trump and before that as VA Under Secretary for Health under President Obama. In this conversation Secretary Shulkin makes a counterintuitive argument: the VA's government-run, globally budgeted healthcare system is a model the private sector should be learning from, not dismissing. The discussion spans the VA's landmark hepatitis C elimination campaign, its AI-powered suicide prevention program, the structural case for population health over fee-for-service, and why Shulkin believes incremental reform has run its course. To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www.HealthcareNOWRadio.com or ask your Smart Device to “….Play Healthcare NOW Radio Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen

Host Dan Marino welcomes Dr. Suzanne Brixey, Executive Director of Fortify Children's Health, to explore how value-based care can transform pediatric healthcare. While value-based care has gained traction in adult medicine, pediatric care has often been left out of the conversation. Dr. Brixey discusses how Virginia's statewide pediatric clinically integrated network is advancing a new approach designed specifically for children and families. She explains why pediatric payment models and quality measures must differ from those used in adult care, how early intervention and preventive care can improve lifelong health outcomes, and why addressing behavioral health, social drivers of health, and family well-being is essential to creating healthier children, stronger communities, and a more sustainable healthcare system. To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www.HealthcareNOWRadio.com or ask your Smart Device to “….Play Healthcare NOW Radio”. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen