Relentless Health Value
Episodes
EP530: A Wildly Underappreciated Point: Overpaying for Infusions Means Overpaying for Stop-Loss Coverage, With Jake Velie and Keith Hartman, RPh
Host Stacy discusses how overpaying for infusions directly drives up stop-loss premiums, a connection many plan sponsors overlook.
How Stark Law, Stipends, and Noncompetes Drive Hospital Consolidation, With Eric Bricker, MD
Dr.
EP528: The Current State of Primary Care—Inevitable or Fixable? Will It Be Private Equity to the Rescue? With Yashaswini Singh, PhD
Dr.
Generic Compliance Ratios, Pass-Through Contracts, and Other Pharmacy Plumbing, With Mark Cuban and Cora Opsahl
Host Stacey Hensley interviews Mark Cuban and Cora Opsal to expose pharmacy supply chain inefficiencies.
EP525: PMPM vs FFS—The Perverse Incentives Plan Sponsors Sometimes Miss, With Cristin Dickerson, MD
Host and Dr.
EP524: Beating Provider Network Pricing Games by Thinking About Buying Healthcare Like a Manufacturer Supply Chain, With John Quinn
Hosted by Relentless Health Value, Episode 524 features John Quinn discussing how to optimize healthcare provider networks by applying manufacturing supply chain principles.
The Sleeping Giants of Healthcare—Why Self-insured Employers and Clinicians Keep Missing Each Other, With Suhas Gondi, MD, MBA. EP523
In this episode, host Stacey Higgins interviews Dr.
How GoodRx Actually Makes Money: PBMs, Cash Prices, and Pharmacy Contracts, With Ge Bai, PhD, CPA (EP522)
This episode explains GoodRx’s revenue model, revealing it earns fees from PBMs for directing cash-pay patients to pharmacies.
How Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) Became an Over $200 Billion Healthcare Hot Potato, With Andrew Tsang. EP521
Host Stacey Henke interviews healthcare analyst Andrew Tsang on the $200 billion revenue cycle management industry.