Health Tech Nerds Radio
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The Grand Roundup: Q2 earnings special — AI ROI finally shows up, managed care's comeback, Molina's ACA spiral, Hims' Bluetooth pill box pitch, and more
Aug 24, 202659 min
The Grand Roundup: Medicare for All's trillion-dollar trade-offs, STAT’s Commure probe, the ICHRA covered-lives boom, new rounds for Aligned Marketplace and Innovaccer, and more
Aug 17, 20261h 2m
The Grand Roundup: Doximity's AI comeback, Bank of America's $250M GLP-1 bet, Clover and Oscar's blowout quarters, HCMC's $705M bailout, and more
Aug 10, 20261h 0m
The Grand Roundup: BetterHelp’s cash pay collapse, Centene-Molina ACA divergence, Function’s 450M debt raise, Iowa’s managed care debate, and more
Aug 3, 20261h 0m
The Grand Roundup: Payer Q2 earnings, HCA's ACA miss, OpenEvidence & Doximity's PR war, fee schedule backlash, Neko's $7B valuation, and more
Jul 20, 20261h 2m
Betting on regulatory tailwinds: how Evidenced picks its deals | Bryan Sivak & Sean Glass
Jul 16, 202622 min
CMS Bridge forecast, broker fraud, and the ACA numbers everyone's misreading | Sam Melamed (NCD)
Jul 15, 202624 min
The Grand Roundup: Debating the future of ESI, concierge medicine's $40K price tag, Elevance/SCAN sue over Stars, ACA rate hikes and death spiral fears, and more
Jul 13, 20261h 25m
A physician-turned-founder's take on making prior auth actually work | Jeremy Friese (Humata Health)
Jul 1, 202617 min
The Grand Roundup: Agentic voice AI wars, recent funding roundup, Cityblock acquires Homeward, UpDoc's FDA clearance, Humata's WISeR rollout, and more
Jun 29, 20261h 20m
The liability gap holding clinical AI back — and who should solve it | JD Friedland (Cleveland Clinic)
Jun 25, 202618 min
The Grand Roundup: Anti-tiering contracts and the OhioHealth ruling, Thoreau/Ensemble update, 340B and Eli Lilly, OpenLoop's D2C play, Cleveland Clinic on AI trust, and more
Jun 22, 20261h 20m
The tasks AI should take off doctors' plates — and the ones it shouldn't | Hashem Zikry (Counsel Health)
Jun 17, 202615 min
How Alignment Health gets health systems to come to them | John Kao (Alignment Health)
Jun 16, 202619 min
The Grand Roundup: $12B Matt Holt/Ensemble deal, Hawaii's payvider bet unravels, PwC's highest commercial trend in 18 years, Clover Stars win, clinical AI regulation, and more
Jun 15, 20261h 37m
The billing problem is actually an affordability problem | Seth Cohen (Cedar)
Jun 10, 202618 min
Why U.S. healthcare doesn't need more money—it needs a different system | Ezekiel Emanuel
Jun 9, 202626 min
The Grand Roundup: Finding the optimal amount of healthcare fraud, ACA premium churn, wealthy New Yorkers are buying "med-à-terres", Zeke Emanuel on where healthcare policy reform is headed, and more
Jun 8, 20261h 20m
Before, during, and after GLP-1s: the role of nutrition in metabolic care | Amit Shah (Virta Health)
Jun 4, 202617 min
Why foster-connected youth fall through healthcare's cracks—and how to fix it | Michelle Turner (Here Now Health)
Jun 2, 202623 min
The Grand Roundup: Elevance CMS update, healthcare AI bundling vs. the $100B benchmark, Clover Stars ruling, D-SNP upcoding, No Surprises Act, CVS/Tennessee PBM split, and more
Jun 2, 20261h 44m
How Gyde is enabling the shift from MA broker to trusted advisor | Will Johnson (Gyde)
May 20, 202620 min
How the No Surprises Act solved balance billing but created a pricing problem | Loren Adler (Brookings Institution)
May 19, 202618 min
The Grand Roundup: Mass General Brigham's AI PCP backlash, Hinge Health pushback on CMMI ACCESS, No Surprises Act increasing costs, US drug access & TAMs, AI market signals, and more
May 18, 20261h 53m
Why Photon Health is doubling down on the pharmacy patient experience | Otto Sipe (Photon Health)
May 15, 202619 min
The case for underwriting as the new defensible moat in healthcare | Sean Doolan & Emre Karatas (Virtue VC)
May 14, 202617 min
Why special needs plans are becoming strategically important in Medicare Advantage | Patrick Foley (Belong Health)
May 13, 202616 min
What's driving growth for the country's largest outpatient mental health provider | Dan Ferris (LifeStance Health)
May 12, 202614 min
The Grand Roundup: Strong Q1s driven by operational execution, hospital market power, MinuteClinic / Mass General Brigham, SNP growth, pharmacy patient experience, and more
May 11, 20261h 57m
The NC State Health Plan: a case study in managed care, benefit design, and healthcare affordability | Brian Miller (NC State Health Plan)
May 8, 202621 min
Healthcare affordability, declining trust, and the realities of reform | Natalie Davis (United States of Care)
May 7, 202615 min
What Kelonia's journey to exit could mean for cell & gene therapies | Bryan Roberts (Venrock)
May 6, 202615 min
Addressing revenue cycle's root problem, data fragmentation | Eliana Berger (Joyful Health)
May 5, 202614 min
The Grand Roundup: Devoted's long-term bet, Anthropic's AI services firm, Q1 earnings, healthcare financial infrastructure, gene therapy exit, public trust in healthcare, NC state health plan turnaround, and more
May 4, 20261h 53m
How ACCESS unlocks innovative digital care models for original Medicare | Amanda Rees (Bold)
May 1, 202616 min
The evolution of MA brokerages: from volume to retention—and what’s next | Patrick Keavy & Rebecca Springer (Bailey & Company)
Apr 30, 202620 min
AI and ACCESS: how Pair Team is scaling whole-person care to a broader population | Neil Batlivala
Apr 29, 202615 min
The state of behavioral health: demand, supply, direct-to-consumer, and emerging treatments | Alli Oakes (Trilliant Health)
Apr 28, 202615 min
The Grand Roundup: Q1 earnings, behavioral health market, Pair Team and Bold on ACCESS, future of MA brokers, Epic AI vs startups, AI prescribing, and more
Apr 27, 20262h 1m
Why so few patients access palliative care, and how Empassion is addressing that | Robin Heffernan (Empassion)
Apr 22, 202628 min
From building an alternative health plan to powering them: what Yuzu learned and why they pivoted | Russell Pekala & Will Gillach
Apr 21, 202617 min
Why a connected device company is well positioned for CMMI's ACCESS model | Patrick Sheehan (Withings)
Apr 21, 202615 min
From AI scribing to clinical intelligence: how Abridge is expanding its role across the clinical encounter | Shiv Rao
Apr 21, 202615 min
Maternity care unbundling: why the global payment bundle is ending and what it means for innovation, costs, and access | Neel Shah (Maven Clinic)
Apr 21, 202617 min
The Grand Roundup: Digital vs consumer health participation in ACCESS, maternity care unbundling, Abridge and clinical intelligence, Yuzu's pivot to power alternative plans, peptide market, price transparency, AI-driven risk adjustment funding, and more
Apr 20, 20261h 49m
Inside alternative plan design: the mechanics and behavior change driving employer cost savings | Craig Allen & Nancy Wang (Sidecar Health)
Apr 17, 202623 min
How CMS Administered Risk Arrangements (CARA) bridge the gap between ACOs and specialists | Will Gordon (Manatt Health)
Apr 14, 202616 min
An investor’s view of the private market, and navigating AI-driven uncertainty | Conor Green (Truehelm)
Apr 14, 202620 min
The case for investing in maternity care and the driving forces behind SimpliFed's $10.8M Series A | Andrea Ippolito (SimpliFed)
Apr 14, 202616 min
CMMI LEAD and three key changes from ACO REACH: incorporating specialists, using AI-inferred risk, and simplifying tracks | Gabe Drapos (Pearl Health)
Apr 14, 202616 min