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 successful years in the business side of healthcare. Subscribe to the podcast and spend a hour with us every Thursday. Relentless Health Value is for leaders in pharma, medical devices, payers, providers, patient advocacy and healthcare business. It's for health industry innovators, entrepreneurs or wantrepreneurs or employee-preneurs. Every day, in little ways and in big ways, we innovate better healthcare, we get patients access to medications and needed therapy, we teach people how to care for themselves. No outcome, no income is the mantra we live daily. Relentless Health 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. We all know the healthcare business is not, and has never been an easy business. The barrier to entry is often high, the cost of doing business, equally high. Success in the healthcare business nestles on the far side of a snake pit. A writhing tangle of regulations, litigation risk, perverse incentives and technology requirements. Healthcare leaders and upstarts like us live in interesting times of great change … the Affordable Care Act has reset incentives from quantity of services delivered to quality. Healthcare value has become not an intellectual talking point but a business imperative. We're in an era of evolution, of disruption. We're jiggling the old bloated establishment. And while change breeds pain, it also is the genie of great opportunity. Today more than ever, we have it in our power to change lives, save lives and succeed in business. The tectonic plates of the healthcare industry scraping apart leaving gaps just waiting for a clever innovator to pounce into. Let's talk to healthcare innovators who are making waves in our industry and those who are quietly achieving greatness. Let's talk to healthcare disrupters and builders who are working hard to make a dent in the healthcare universe. Let's talk to those who can turn disjointed healthcare services into systematic value. Everyone working in the healthcare industry has a story to tell.
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2025-02-27 | The Hidden Costs of PBMs: How Aggregate Discount Guarantees Inflate Drug Prices. In episode 465 of Relentlessly Seeking Value, host Stacey Richter interviews Chris Crawford, CEO of RxSaveCard, about the inflated costs within the pharmacy benefits indus... | |
2025-02-20 |
EP464: ER Visits Now 6% of Total Plan Spend. Is It Upcoding or What? With Al Lewis Emergency room costs now make up 6% of total healthcare plan spending—why? In this episode, host Stacey Richter welcomes Al Lewis to break down the data behind rising ER expenses, separating fact from fiction. They discuss whether increased patient acu... |
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2025-02-13 |
EP463: Medicare Advantage Policies—Which Will Stay and Which Will Go Now? With Betsy Seals In this episode of Relentless Health Value, host Stacey Richter engages with Betsy Seals, CEO and co-founder of Rebellis Group, to analyze the future of key Medicare Advantage policies amidst a changing political landscape. They delve into four critica... |
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2025-02-06 | In this episode, Stacey Richter explores how the demands of shareholders influence the actions of publicly traded health insurance companies with guest Wendell Potter. Drawing from Milton Friedman’s assertion that a business’s primary responsibility is... | |
2025-01-30 | This podcast today is with Dr. Scott Conard, founder of Converging Health. You might remember him from the earlier episode (EP391). First of all, I enjoyed how it came to be. Brian Uhlig, an employee benefit consultant of some acclaim, came to me and o... | |
2025-01-23 |
INBW42: A Philosophical Rabbit Hole of Considerations for Plan Sponsors and Others In this inbetweenisode Stacey Richter dives into the complexities of benefit design in American healthcare. Highlighting insights from recent episodes with Bill Sarraille (EP459) and upcoming episode with Scott Conard, MD, Richter explores the impact o... |
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2025-01-16 | This episode is not about the when, why, or how of GLP-1s for weight loss or best-practice prescribing; and we do not wade into anything about lifestyle changes or who is adherent or clinical considerations and needed support. There are a plethora of s... | |
2025-01-09 |
EP460: Rushika Fernandopulle, MD’s Theory of Change Starts With Status Quo Healthcare In this Relentless Health Value episode, Dr. Rushika Fernandopulle discusses with Stacey Richter his four-prong theory of change for transforming the American healthcare system. Key topics include the necessity of new payment models, process innovation... |
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2025-01-02 | In Episode 459, host Stacey Richter speaks with healthcare attorney Bill Sarraille about co-pay maximizers and accumulators, mechanisms designed to extract maximum co-pay support dollars from pharmaceutical companies. They discuss the financial implic... | |
2024-12-26 |
INBW41: End-of-Year Wrap-Up and My Personal Charter Encore: Where the Rubber Hits the Road In this Inbetweenisode titled 'End of Year Wrap Up and My Personal Charter Encore,' Stacey Richter extends heartfelt thanks to listeners and healthcare workers for their dedication. She reflects on the challenges of maintaining personal integrity in a... |