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Nov. 12, 2024

A Doctor's Mission For More Conscious Healthcare (with Scott Conard)

"Quit tolerating mediocrity. Go get in action. Find the right broker consultant that will take you to a new place. Don't give up hope." - Scott Conard Dr. Scott Conard tragically lost 3 patients one summer to unexpected heart...

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Nov. 5, 2024

The Economics of Cell and Gene Therapy with Oscar Bronsther & Carolin…

"It's progress we couldn't have envisioned decades ago." - Oscar “I felt interested in being part of something bigger than my practice and something that will impact even more people that I was able to in the hospital.” - Car...

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Oct. 29, 2024

Ending Pharmaceutical Price Gouging, with Jake Frenz

"If my child needs a gene therapy to live, they should get it and anyone's child should. So let's figure out how to pay for it." - Jake Frenz On the final of four podcasts filmed at a recent healthcare …

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Oct. 22, 2024

The Average Person Doesn't Understand Healthcare, with Dan Cochran

"I would say a lot of it is education, helping both the member and the provider realize that it's okay for them to get healthcare in home." - Dan Cochran On the third of four podcasts filmed at a recent …

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Oct. 15, 2024

The Opportunity We Have To Fix Healthcare, with Shawn Sanford

"There can be a better path forward. We don't have to remain adherent to the system that is built against us. It's just going to take some rolling up of the sleeves and a commitment to it." - Shawn Sanford …

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Oct. 8, 2024

Be A (Healthcare) Advocate, with Kristen Rivers

“There's a reason why every insurance carrier likely owns or is owned by a pharmacy benefit management company, that’s one of the ways that they can drive revenue." - Kristen Rivers My guest this week, Kristen Rivers from Par...

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Oct. 3, 2024

Who Is Spencer Smith? Q+A with Luke Aslesen

Luke Aslesen, founder of INFRMD, joined me a few weeks ago for the podcast, and we also filmed this extended interview after, in which Luke asks me about my comedy background, upbringing, relationship with my wife, and more. ...

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Oct. 1, 2024

GLP-1s: The PBM Perspective (with Justin Jasniewski)

“PBM is one of the most complicated concepts out there and it's incredibly difficult to understand. But it's not because the system itself is complicated. It's because pbms make it complicated.” - Justin Jasniewski Justin Jas...

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Sept. 20, 2024

"Blind Spots" with Dr. Marty Makary

“You know, Africa has no peanut allergies.” - Dr. Marty Makary I was honored to be joined this week by Dr. Marty Makary to promote his new book “Blind Spots”, which published this week and is currently a national bestseller. …

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Sept. 17, 2024

How Do You Stay Authentic And Creative In Insurance? (with Luke Asles…

“So many times these employers are like, ‘dude, I spend so much money on this, and my employees don't care at all.’ Or what's even worse is they go, ‘our employees love it, we have a great, great plan.’ Did …

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Sept. 10, 2024

Psychedelic Therapy As An Employee Benefit? (with Amil Patel)

“If we're facing a [mental health] crisis and we want radical change, we’ve got to think about radical solutions. If those radical solutions can show objectively with safety and efficacy data, that they're really helping peop...

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Sept. 4, 2024

What's Stopping Patients From Embracing Virtual Care? (with Jon O'Too…

“Utilization is key for virtual urgent care. Let us be your first line of defense, rather than like, ‘oh, I do have a telemedicine on the back of my insurance card, I’m not sure what it does.’” - Jon O’Toole …

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Aug. 27, 2024

Elevate Your Customer Service Game (with Heather Bowers)

“Life is short. In the meantime, your health is, at the end of the day, your health is all you have." - Heather Bowers Differentiating yourself through customer service is a tricky thing: it’s talked about so frequently that ...

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Aug. 20, 2024

How Do We Engage Members? (with Rob Gelb)

“We're simplifying the complexities of healthcare. We gotta declutter it, we've gotta demystify it, we've gotta make it more transparent and understandable in bite sized ways where members know and understand what's happening...

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Aug. 13, 2024

Fixing Healthcare Now (with Brandon Weber in San Francisco)

“If you talk to almost anyone in this industry over a beer or something like that, I think they will all agree that we are operating in a pretty antiquated industry that needs some serious modernization, innovation, reimagina...

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Aug. 6, 2024

The Social Determinants Of Health (with Justen Nestico)

"I think, not just in terms of the type of AI Verikai does, but AI in healthcare in general, I'm so optimistic about it, just because we are in such early stages of this." - Justen Nestico Did you know …

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July 30, 2024

Why Tribal Healthcare Is So Unique (with Kevin Chambers)

"The best way I can explain it is the concept is like your house is on fire, and now you go get homeowners insurance." - Kevin Chambers Kevin Chambers (Lucent Health) joined me this week to help me understand just …

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July 23, 2024

How To Build Your Personal Brand From Scratch (with Madison Baker)

"I think we need to do a better job of understanding each other and plugging each other in where we can help our clients to solve for issues that may not directly impact us, but make a world of difference …

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July 16, 2024

Changing The Way Drugs Are Developed (with Public Good Pharma)

“I realize there's this massive disconnect in the business model whereby you've got governments and health insurers paying billions and billions of dollars for what might be a not very effective therapy, and then there's all ...

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July 12, 2024

Can We Use AI To Fix Healthcare? (with Guy Benjamin)

"The US healthcare system is simple, easy to navigate and affordable. Said no one ever." - Guy Benjamin Guy Benjamin returns to the show a year after his previous episode to share just how much Healthee has expanded in that …

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July 2, 2024

Inside the Life of a Children's Book Illustrator (with AG Ford)

"It's not always what you can do that makes you who you are. Sometimes the things that you don't do well create your style." - AG Ford We have a bit of a different episode in store for you this …

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June 25, 2024

Episode 150 - Talking RBP with ClaimDOC, Live From Des Moines!

“If you're going to be the fiduciary, you have to protect the members, you have to protect the plan, and you need to defend that allowable to make sure that you're covering all of your bases." - Amy Pellegrin We …

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June 18, 2024

Real Estate As An Employee Benefit? (with Dave and Tommy Shumway)

"You're talking about the number one creator of wealth and security for people and one of their most important purchases. And like, how is this not in the employee benefits arena?" - Tommy Shumway For the first time ever, a …

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June 11, 2024

Why It's Really Hard To Incentivize Employees To Stay Fit (with Chris…

"Your fitness affects if you, even if you have a desk job. Your fitness is going to affect your performance over the long run, because it's your energy level." - Chris Hamilton Chris Hamilton (Hotchkiss) needs no introduction...

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