The Business of Healthcare Podcast

In this special 100th episode of The Business of Healthcare Podcast, Dr. John McCracken joins host Dr. Bob Kaiser to discuss the most significant healthcare changes over the past quarter-century, including healthcare inflation and physician burnout, which McCracken calls moral injury. The root cause of these problems, McCracken says, is kludgeocracy, a government built and run on quick fixes.

Link to McCracken's blog, Blog Rx; https://apl.utdallas.edu/blog-rx/

In this episode, Dr. Tim Church, chief medical officer of Wondr Health, a digital weight management program, joins host Dr. Bob Kaiser for a discussion about how to solve twin health epidemics related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, they discuss related metabolic and mental-health pandemics in which people are eating more, exercising and sleeping less because of worry and stress related to life's uncertainties during these times.

In this episode, Dr. James (Jim) Walton, president and CEO of Genesis Physicians Group, joins host Dr. Bob Kaiser for a wide-ranging discussion about consolidation in the healthcare marketplace. Walton also offers his views about how value-based care is impacting population health. Walton is also a lecturer in the Naveen Jindal School of Management's Healthcare Leadership and Management programs.

Dr. A.J. Aceirno, a practicing dentist and CEO of Decision One Dental Partners, joins host Dr. Bob Kaiser for an overview of the dental industry, how it differs today from previous decades and what improvements can be made to optimize both the patient experience and business success.

Jim Anderson, vice-president of product management and innovation at Stericycle, joins host Dr. Bob Kaiser for a look at the medical waste industry — its market dynamics, regulatory aspects, technology, supply-chain issues, education, safety, training and guidelines involved, the impact of the pandemic on the industry and more.

In this episode, Sanjay Prasad, MD FACS, joins host Dr. Bob Kaiser to discuss how companies like SurgiQuality, which Prasad helms as CEO — are helping healthcare patients become better consumers by helping them connect with the beast surgeons not only in terms of cost but also quality. They also discuss Prasad's new book, Resetting Healthcare Post-COVID-19 Pandemic, the Patient Handbook.

In this episode, host Dr. Bob. Kaiser speaks with Ellen Kelsay, president and CEO of Business Group on Health, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit organization that advocates for employer healthcare interests, including those of some of the largest companies in the world.

This episode delves into the concept of a cash-based physical therapy business and provides a brief overview of what physical therapy is. Host Dr. Bob Kaiser speaks with Dr. Aaron LeBauer, owner of LeBauer Physical Therapy, LLC, author of The CashPT® Blueprint, and host of ‎The CashPT Lunch Hour Podcast. LeBauer is on a mission to save 100 million people from unnecessary surgery by teaching other physical therapists to market directly to consumers and bypass the influence of insurance companies in the treatment process.

In this episode, host Dr. Bob Kaiser and guests Tracy Christopherson and Michelle Troseth discuss the concept of Polarity Intelligence and how it can help healthcare leaders establish balance in their lives. Christopherson and Troseth are co-founders of Missing Logic LLC and co-hosts of the Healthcare's Missing Logic Podcast.

Jon Doolittle, MS'21, joins host Dr. Bob Kaiser for a look into the role rural hospitals play in the U.S. healthcare system. Doolittle is president of Mosaic Medical Center in Albany, Missouri, a town with a population of less than than 2,000.