PointHealthTech Podcast

We’re excited to share this special edition episode to kick off our second season! Our guest was Dr. Tony Dale, founder and Chairman of The Karis Group and Sedera. Tony has directly impacted the lives of millions of patients seeking the best possible care at fair and affordable prices. In the conversation, we discussed his career and dove into his newest book “The Cure For Healthcare: An Old World Doctor’s Prescription for the New World Health System”.

This episode was recorded in collaboration with the Race to Value podcast and its hosts Dr. Eric Weaver and Daniel Chipping of the Accountable Care Learning Collaborative.

This is a special episode in collaboration with Accountable Care Learning Collaborative’s podcast, Race to Value. Our host, Steven, is joined by Eric Weaver of ACLC in leading a discussion with Dr. Keith Smith and Sean Kelley. Keith is the co-founder and medical director of Surgery Center of Oklahoma and an outspoken advocate for broader price transparency in healthcare. Sean is the founder and managing partner of Texas Medical Management and has more than a decade of experience in healthcare, including holding executive-level roles in hospitals and health systems.

This joint episode between Race to Value and PointHealthTech is released alongside the ACLC Intelligence Brief entitled “Revealing Value? Hospital Price Transparency”. This brief can be downloaded at https://www.accountablecarelc.org/hpt

Marshall Allen is a ProPublica healthcare journalist digging deep into why Americans pay so much for healthcare, yet get so little in return. Marshall joined us to discuss the complicated topic of healthcare billing and his brand new book, “Never Pay the First Bill: and Other Ways to Fight the Health Care System and Win.”

In this episode, Steven is joined by three of PointHealthTech’s very own patient advocates, Alejandra Vineski, Justine Hearn, and Patrick Gaul to discuss the important role patient advocates play in helping navigate the stressful burdens that can often come with healthcare. In the conversation they share impactful stories from patient’s they’ve supported and cover topics like bill negotiation, healthcare navigation, and the impact of price transparency on the patient experience.

Jennifer Lannon is a super connector in the digital health world, the business development lead of Savvy Cooperative, and a health tech entrepreneur. She is the co-founder of Freeze.Health, an informational platform that helps women decide if, when, and where to freeze their eggs. She’s also this episode’s special guest! She joined us to discuss what the current patient experience is like and what can be done to change it.

Dr. Bryan Vartabedian (@Doctor_V), a physician leader and writer covering the intersection of medicine, technology, and culture joined us to discuss how technology is connecting (and disconnecting) patients and their doctors.

To round out Women’s History Month, we wanted to use our 10th episode to host a very special roundtable discussion with a few of the amazing women at PointHealthTech.

Our host for this episode, Josie Rasberry, sat down with our Senior Director Client Services, Teresa Heinitz, Director of Operations, Haden Marrs, Director of Engineering, Rose Hogan, Senior Product Manager Stephanie Orkand, and Executive Assistant, Robin Paniccia to discuss the need for diversity and equality in the workplace, the importance of having women in leadership, and why women shouldn’t be intimidated or doubtful about their voices or abilities in the roles they hold.

To help us answer the question, “why is it so hard to understand healthcare?” we invited Jenny Aghamalian, Vice President, Public Affairs and Strategy at Sedera, to join this episode. We discuss what factors contribute to the complexity of healthcare, how healthcare sharing communities work, and why so many Americans have health insurance but still struggle with affording healthcare.

One of our favorite healthcare podcasts is “An Arm and a Leg Show”, so we were pretty stoked when host Dan Weissmann agreed to join us on an episode of our podcast. In this episode, we discuss healthcare affordability, the complexities of patient consumerism, and why healthcare stories hit us all so personally.

In this episode, Niall Brennan discusses his experiences as the first Chief Data Officer for CMS, his current role as President and CEO of the Health Care Cost Institute, and why private sectors, insurance silos, and consolidation have made U.S. healthcare so unaffordable. Niall also discusses the issues of price transparency being pushed as a consumer only issue, and points out the current healthcare buzzwords that aren’t really “moving the needle.”