In this episode we have the opportunity to learn from Nathan Bays, a healthcare investor, advisor, and strategist with a unique perspective at the intersection of healthcare delivery, policy, technology, and capital. Nathan began his career as a healthcare attorney before joining the Health Management Academy, where he worked closely with healthcare leaders and helped build a policy advisory business. He later spent eight years on Wall Street advising hospitals and health systems on mergers and acquisitions, including as a leader of hospital and health system M&A teams at Citi. Today, through his own advisory firm, Nathan works with CEOs, C-suites, and boards of large hospitals and health systems while investing in early-stage healthcare technology, services, and growth companies. He has made nearly 20 healthcare investments and serves on the boards of several companies, including Unite Us. In this conversation, Nathan shares his framework for evaluating healthcare companies and entrepreneurs, discusses the forces reshaping healthcare policy and financing, and explores the challenges facing hospitals, physicians, and health systems as healthcare costs continue to rise and the rate of growth in spending comes under increasing pressure. He also offers his perspective on value-based care, Medicare Advantage, Medicaid, specialty pharmacy, cell and gene therapies, and the role technology can play in improving healthcare delivery. Finally, Nathan shares two creative ideas for making healthcare better: investing in health and financial literacy earlier in life and improving the way patients access and navigate the healthcare system. Listen and learn from Nathan Bays.

In this episode we have the opportunity to learn from one of the most successful and accomplished voices in healthcare. Dr. Robert Pearl is a Yale and Stanford trained surgeon who devoted his early career to the compassionate mission of offering his skills to people all over the world who suffered from cleft lip and palate regardless of their ability to pay. He went on to join Kaiser Permanente where he quickly rose to become the CEO, a post he held for 18 years. During his tenure he turned a company that was nearly bankrupt into a #1 in the nation quality leader. He did this while dramatically improving market share and physician satisfaction scores. He is now a clinical professor at the Stanford medical school where he also teaches strategy and technology in the Stanford graduate school of business. He is a regular contributor to Forbes and has written three books, most recently ChatGPTMD. Perhaps most impressive is that under his guidance, Kaiser members in Northern California became ~30% less likely to die of heart attack or stroke, 40% less likely to die from sepsis, and 50% less likely to die from HIV/AIDS than patients elsewhere. Listen and learn from Dr. Robert Pearl.

In this episode of “Make It So,” Dr. Robert Groves has the privilege of sitting down with Scott Becker. Scott is a Harvard Law graduate and a Partner at McGuireWoods, and he has repeatedly been recognized as among the best healthcare attorneys in the US. But Scott didn’t stop there. In fact, he may be even better known nationally as the successful and respected founder and publisher of Becker’s Hospital Review and Becker’s Healthcare. Because of his broad success in law and media, and his passion and curiosity for all things healthcare, he has a uniquely holistic view of the healthcare landscape. So it’s no surprise that Scott is a sought-after keynote speaker, author, and thought leader. In this episode, we get a glimpse into his new book, “Building Great Businesses,” as well as a few of his thoughts on the troubled state of the US healthcare system. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from his decades of experience.

In our debut episode, host Dr. Robert Groves sits down with Kaushik Vaswanathan, CEO and co-founder of Promptwell, to explore why patient engagement remains healthcare’s holy grail — and how AI-driven outreach is finally moving the needle. From a near-medical-school pivot to 7x enrollment gains, Kaushik shares the story behind Promptwell’s technology, the power of relationship-building in healthcare sales, and what it really takes to get the right message to the right patient at the right time.