Relentless Health Value™ by Stacey Richter

What's Relentless Health Value™ about?

American Healthcare Entrepreneurs and Execs you might want to know. Talking.

Relentless Health Value is a weekly interview podcast hosted by Stacey Richter, a healthcare entrepreneur celebrating fifteen years in the business side of healthcare.

This show is for leaders in pharma, devices, payers, providers, patient advocacy and healthcare business. It's for health industry innovators, entrepreneurs or wantrepreneurs or intrapreneurs.

Relentless Healthcare Value is the show for you if you want to connect with others trying to manage the triple play: to provide healthcare value while being personally and professionally fulfilled.

What's Relentless Health Value™ about?

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Relentless Health Value™ episodes:

EP434: 5 Surprises About Bundled Payments, With Benjamin Schwartz, MD, MBA

EP433: The Mystery of the Weekly Claims Wire: What Are Plan Sponsors Actually Paying For Each Week? With Justin Leader

Encore! EP391: A Case Study for Anyone Trying to Level Up Primary Care That I’m Gonna Call “How Margin Shoves Mission Off the Bus,” With Scott Conard, MD

Encore! EP297: A Driver of Patient Engagement and Clinician Team Success That Is Almost Always Overlooked, With Jerry Durham

EP432: The Knifepoint Intersection of Margin and Mission and the Peril of Cutting Clinical “Waste,” With Kate Wolin, ScD

EP431: How Accountability for Outcomes Works in the Real World With Kenny Cole, MD

EP430: Advice for Digital Health Vendors Selling to Employers, With Barbara Wachsman

EP429: Following the Dollar Through Pharmacy Acronyms Like WAC, AWP, and NADAC, With Luke Slindee, PharmD

EP428: Do-It-Now Advice From the J&J and the DOL v BCBS Lawsuits, With Julie Selesnick

EP427: How Do Digital Health Vendors Deliver Patient Outcomes and Experiences? With Rik Renard

Encore! EP379: How Much Money, Really, Are Employee Benefit Consultants and/or Brokers Making From Plan Sponsors? With AJ Loiacono

EP426: Cost Containment Versus Value-based Drug Purchasing, With Nina Lathia, RPh, MSc, PhD

EP425: Three Ways for “Regular” Clinical Practices to Take Cash When It’s Cheaper for a Patient Than Using Their Insurance, With Marshall Allen

INBW39: The Narcissism of Small Differences Is a Really Must-Know Concept When Attempting to Fix the Healthcare Industry

EP424: Five Things for Hospital System Execs to Get Real About in 2024, With Peter Hayes

EP423: Maximizers and the “the Drugs Aren’t Covered” Schemes Employers Use to Save Money (or Not) on Pharmacy Benefits, With Joey Dizenhouse

EP422: Some Indie Pharmacy Upshots That Surprised Me—and I Thought I Was Pretty in the Know, With Benjamin Jolley, PharmD

Encore! EP392: When Patient Journeys Don’t Fit in the EHR, With Emily Kagan Trenchard

Encore! EP372: Step One for Employers and Unions—Get Your Data, With Cora Opsahl

EP421: Wildly Improving Outcomes When the Patient Is, for Reals, in the Center—For Maternity and Beyond, With Jodilyn Owen

EP420: Paying Cash for Generic Drugs—Some Finer Points That Had Totally Gone Over My Head, With Ge Bai, PhD, CPA

EP419: The Financialization of Health Benefits for Boards of Directors and C-Suites of Self-Insured Employers, With Andreas Mang

Encore! EP381: For Reals, Becoming Customer-centric, Transforming, or Innovating at a Very Large Organization, With Karen Root

EP418: Mark Cuban With Some Advice for CEOs and CFOs of Self-insured Employers, With Mark Cuban and Ferrin Williams, PharmD, MBA, From Scripta

Encore! EP385: Morgan Health and the 5 Things Self-insured Employers Should Do Right Now, With Dan Mendelson

EP417: 5 Kinds of Payer and Provider Collaborations and 5 Must-Haves for Said Collaborations to Work, With Josh Berlin, JD

EP416: Why Should Med Schools Teach the Business of Medicine? With Adam Brown, MD, MBA

EP415: Some Jumbo Employers Buying Better Healthcare Outcomes While Saving 15% on Total Cost of Care, With Rob Andrews

EP414: An IRL How-To for Delivering Better Care and Getting Paid for It—A Value-Based Case Study, With Justina Lehman

EP413: The Intersection of Healthcare Waste, Value-Based Care, and the Potential Rising Power of PCPs, With Will Shrank, MD

EP411: Getting Paid (or Paying) for New Innovations Used in Hospitals as Part of a Procedure or a DRG—Also Bloodstream Infections and Dialysis, With Secretary David Shulkin, MD, and Erin Mistry

Encore! EP361: The Gap in Closing Care Gaps, With Carly Eckert, MD, PhD(c), MPH

EP412: Leadership of the Art and Science of Medicine, With Robert Pearl, MD

Are Physicians (and the Rest of Us, Nothing for Nothing) Knights, Knaves, and/or Pawns? With Larry Bauer, MSW, MEd—Summer Shorts 8

Why Do Actuarial Risk Horizons Really Matter for Anybody Trying to Improve Patient Outcomes? With Keith Passwater and JR Clark—Summer Shorts 7

Should You Not Give Employees the Benefit Design They Think They Want? With Lauren Vela—Summer Shorts 6

Payers Trying to Differentiate Themselves by Working With Provider Organizations … or Not, With Jacob Asher, MD—Summer Shorts 5

Supergroups, Super ACOs, and Ochsner’s Value-Based Care Journey, With Eric Gallagher—Summer Shorts 4

EP410: The Imperative and a 201-Level Financial How-To for Payers and Provider Organizations to Collaborate to Help CKD Patients and Others With Chronic Conditions, With Dan Serrano

EP409: 3 Really Cool Innovative Primary Care Bright Spots and a Few Notes for Policymakers and Payers, With Larry Bauer, MSW, MEd

Does Advanced Primary Care Reduce Access for Patients? With Vivek Garg, MD, MBA—Summer Shorts 3

What Happens When Someone Tries to Un-transform a Transformed PCP Practice? With Scott Conard, MD—Summer Shorts 2

How Come There Aren’t More Hospital Antitrust Cases? With Brennan Bilberry—Summer Shorts 1

INBW38: What I’m Up to Right Now, Big RHV Plans for the Summer—Also Doug Pohl, Justina Lehman, and Dr. Amy Scanlan

Encore! EP365: The Real Deal With PBM Contracts and Drug Rebates, With Scott Haas

EP408: Who’s Suing Who? An Overview of Healthcare Legal Goings-on, With Chris Deacon

EP407: Considering Comprehensive Primary Care at Humana, With Vivek Garg, MD, MBA

EP406: The Inertia Show: 5 Excellent Reasons for the “Why” With the Inertia in Benefits Departments, With Lauren Vela

Encore! EP249: The War on Financial Toxicity in North Carolina as a Case Study Everybody Should Be Keeping Their Eye On, With Dale Folwell, North Carolina State Treasurer

EP405: What Else Physicians Trying to Clinically Integrate in the Real World Really Need to Know, With Eric Gallagher