HealthcareNOW Radio - Insights and Discussion on Healthcare, Healthcare Information Technology and More

Why Amenities Health Pivoted to Premium Memberships Aasim Saeed, Founder of Amenities Health, joins Jared for real talk about building in the direct to consumer health space, why he doesn't consider the current U.S. healthcare system to be patient-centric at all, and his pivot to powering health system-based concierge and premium offerings.  All that, plus the Flava of the Week about the new Google Health App and Fitbit Air. Do Google's latest health products signal a battle for the consumer health operating system, and will they make good on the promise to make health and wellness personalized, preventive, and proactive?  Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen/

Yes, Your Grocery Store Can Teach You About Successful Patient Engagement Host Jenna Hagan, VP of product marketing at NextGen Healthcare and Aditya Bansod, co-founder and president of Luma Health, discuss how patient expectations have changed in recent years and what practices can do to keep up. They address persistent challenges like no-shows, bust myths about which age cohorts are most likely to use digital solutions, consider best practices for successful change management, and consider how AI customer service agents can support patients and staff. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen

S1E3: Hard-won lessons selling to HDOs On this episode host Shahid Shah features a comprehensive discussion about common challenges and lessons learned in healthcare technology sales. Shah outlines twelve key lessons covering topics from funding and compliance to product adoption and customer success. He emphasizes the importance of understanding healthcare systems' complex decision-making processes, including the distinction between clinical value and financial priorities. To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www.HealthcareNOWRadio.com or ask your Smart Device to “….Play Healthcare NOW Radio”. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen

On this special solo episode host Fred Goldstein, MS, President of Accountable Health LLC, takes listeners on an unexpected journey, from childhood dreams of shark research to a frontline role in restoring one of America's most biodiverse and imperiled waterways: Florida's Indian River Lagoon. Drawing on his population health expertise, Fred applies his proven "Select, Segment, Solve, Score" framework to the 156-mile estuary's ecological crisis, examining harmful algal blooms, cyanobacterial toxins, Alzheimer's-like dolphin pathology, and the public health consequences of degraded blue spaces. With $580 million in civic investment and measurable restoration progress underway, Fred makes a compelling case that healing ecosystems and healing communities require the same evidence-based discipline. To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www.HealthcareNOWRadio.com or ask your Smart Device to “….Play Healthcare NOW Radio”. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen

On this episode, host Justin Barnes shares a conversation with Tony Nunes, Sr. Manager, Healthcare & Life Sciences, AMD from a recent AI in Action virtual summit. Their discussion focused on, From Data to Decisions: Making AI Analytics Actually Actionable. To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www.HealthcareNOWRadio.com or ask your Smart Device to “….Play Healthcare NOW Radio”. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen

On this episode host Dan Marino is joined by ECG's Amanda Adams and Jessica Wells to discuss key themes and takeaways from the Becker's Healthcare 16th Annual Meeting in Chicago. Together, they explore how healthcare organizations are rethinking workforce development, physician leadership, and operational integration amid growing financial, regulatory, and staffing pressures. The conversation highlights the evolving role of academic health systems, the need to break down silos across clinical, research, and educational missions, and the importance of preparing a workforce ready for the future of care delivery. They also discuss leadership development, rural health challenges, artificial intelligence's growing influence on workforce strategy, and how healthcare provider organizations can create more sustainable, integrated care environments while improving engagement and performance across teams. To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www.HealthcareNOWRadio.com or ask your Smart Device to “….Play Healthcare NOW Radio”. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen

May News You Can Use Burnout, Bots, and Bada Bing Medical burnout isn't caused by “the wrong people” entering medicine, the system itself is chewing people up and calling it resilience; AI “never skilling” may create doctors who can use the tools but never fully develop the skills behind them; Insurance companies love second-guessing physicians while avoiding accountability - if they deny care, they should own the liability too; LinkedIn recruitment scams are getting absurdly sophisticated, but “totallylegitrecruiter@gmail.com” is still a red flag; Raul Castro accidentally looking like Uncle Junior from The Sopranos confirmed that reality now has worse writers than HBO. To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www.HealthcareNOWRadio.com or ask your Smart Device to “….Play Healthcare NOW Radio”. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen

Healthcare Clearinghouses and Cybersecurity On this episode host Tom Testa sits down with Stephanie Short-Romanello, Head of Marketing Communications at ClaimMD. What have we learned from the 2024 Change Healthcare clearinghouse cyber attack? Not if but when this happens again, is the industry more prepared? To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www.HealthcareNOWRadio.com or ask your Smart Device to “….Play Healthcare NOW Radio”. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen

Host Matt Fisher talks to Jake McCarley, CEO and Co-Founder of Alluvium, about defining patient access; building discipline around patient access as front end to revenue cycle; developing capacity for real-time decision-making; building efficiency in scheduling to help maximize capacity; avoiding traps of constraining capabilities of technology. To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www.HealthcareNOWRadio.com or ask your Smart Device to “….Play Healthcare NOW Radio”. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen

On this episode Jim welcomes Greg Archambeau, President of Revalesio Corporation who discusses RNS60, a novel treatment for both ALS and acute ischemic stroke. Phase 3 trials are beginning soon based on promising Phase 2 results. To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www.HealthcareNOWRadio.com or ask your Smart Device to “….Play Healthcare NOW Radio”. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen

On this episode Gil welcomes Jamie Wisser, MD, New Jersey's top-cited plastic and trauma surgeon and founder of Actual Health Care Solutions, for a candid, unfiltered conversation about why the original promise of digital health went sideways and what one physician decided to do about it. Thirty years into a demanding surgical career, Dr. Wisser reached his breaking point watching clinicians lose patient time to electronic record systems that couldn't talk to each other. His answer: LMREX, a platform engineered to accelerate speed to definitive care by breaking down the interoperability barriers that continue to plague over 1,100 competing EMR systems. With $1.4 million raised, a validated pilot underway, and partnerships with organizations serving 30,000 physicians, Dr. Wisser's story is equal parts clinical empathy and entrepreneurial grit. To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www.HealthcareNOWRadio.com or ask your Smart Device to “….Play Healthcare NOW Radio”. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen

On this episode host Tom Foley shares a conversation he had with Harry Travis, President The Travis Group as part of a recent AI in Action virtual summit. Their discussion focused on Productivity vs. Reality: What AI Means for Community Pharmacies. To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www.HealthcareNOWRadio.com or ask your Smart Device to “….Play Healthcare NOW Radio”. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen

From Clinic to Consumer On How AI Is Reshaping the Entire Health Experience Host: Megan Antonelli Guest: Kenn Harper, GM, Dragon and DAX Copilot, Microsoft Join host Megan Antonelli who sits down with Kenneth Harper, General Manager for Dragon and DAX Copilot at Microsoft, to explore two major moves reshaping health AI. Dragon Copilot has now scaled to more than 100,000 clinical deployments across nine countries, spanning physician, nursing, and radiology workflows, while the newly launched Copilot Health gives patients a unified view of their health data from wearables, EHRs, and lab results, all between clinical visits. Kenneth unpacks what this dual-track strategy means for health systems, clinical teams, and patients, and what health system leaders need to be thinking about right now. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen/

A Rural CNO on Healthcare Innovation That Actually Helps Nurses Host: Phil Sobol, Chief Commercial Officer at CereCore Guest: Holly Davis, Chief Nursing Officer, Bingham Memorial Hospital Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen

The $50B Rural Health Question In this session, Scott Cook, VP of Business Development at Infinx, unpacks what the Rural Health Transformation Program may mean in practice. The conversation will explore what the funding is designed to accomplish, why each state's approach matters, and how rural healthcare organizations should think about sustainability once the five-year funding period ends. The session will also look at the operational burden behind transformation funding. Rural health teams may be asked to apply for, justify, track, and operationalize funding while already managing workforce shortages, payer pressure, technology gaps, and limited administrative capacity. Scott will help frame the practical questions rural providers should be asking now: What can this funding realistically support? What happens when it goes away? And how can organizations use this moment to strengthen revenue cycle, access, and care delivery instead of simply chasing short-term dollars? Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen

How to Address the Patient-Tech Disconnect With Scheduling Rom Cohen, Co-Founder of Hyro, talks about the state of patient communication, Hyro's new research on the topic, and how an unsophisticated approach to AI means lots of patients don't get treated.  All that, plus the Flava of the Week about Walmart's new Clinical Trial Centers. What is the goal of the new centers, and what happens when we continue to underestimate how retail reinvents itself?  Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen/

Quiet Courage of the CMO There is a version of the marketing leader's job that looks great on a slide deck, and then there is the real thing. On this episode, we wanted to get at the real thing. Host Adam Turinas sat down with two marketing leaders who are currently in the middle of major company transformations, Erik Johnson, VP of Marketing at Harmony Healthcare IT, and Steffany Whiting, EVP of Marketing at iMethods. They are talking rebrands, ABM programs built from scratch, website overhauls, and bold calls about where to focus and where to pull back. The stakes are real for both of them. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen

The PBM Trap: How “Savings” Are Costing You a Fortune PBMs (pharmacy benefit managers) were created with good intentions but became broken middlemen incentivized to push higher-cost drugs. Securing a big discount on an expensive drug looks more impressive than low-cost alternatives. Unfortunately, the system encourages over-prescription. 90% of doctors have no idea what the drugs they prescribe will actually cost you, and direct-to-consumer advertising (allowed only in the US and New Zealand) drives patients to demand expensive brand-name drugs they saw on TV. The solution? Incentivize patients (again!). Independent audit teams can proactively offer generic alternatives, and 80% of the time, doctors agree. Patients receive recurring savings directly in their bank accounts. And for companies: Read your contracts, align incentives with employees, and don't accept the status quo. Healthcare may be weird, but we don't have to be passive victims of it. To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www.HealthcareNOWRadio.com or ask your Smart Device to “….Play Healthcare NOW Radio”. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen

True healthcare transformation doesn't happen in an isolated spreadsheet; it happens within the community. While the industry generates massive amounts of health data, that information too often fails to reach the local leaders who need it most. Join host Beth Friedman and Meghan Harris, President and Chief Operations Officer at Acentra Health, for an engaging conversation about health analytics and the community drivers of health. Drawing on her background in mathematics and statistics, Meghan explains why the most effective interventions are built with the whole person in mind and steers by the communities themselves. Beth and Meghan dig into the practical realities of whole-population care, exploring how broader challenges like housing and environmental factors shape individual outcomes. Tune in to discover how we can bridge the divide between “data rich” and “data poor” populations, putting actionable insights directly into the hands of those designing the future of healthcare. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen

Healthcare Automation Evolution On this episode host Tom Foley invites Mayank Pant, EVP, Product & Innovation for IKS Health to discuss the shifting from traditional rigid automation to agentic AI in healthcare which prioritizes redesigned processes over simply automating existing inefficient workflows. IKS has recently launched My Care Hub prioritizing patient-centered engagement and utilizing agentic AI to drive measurable outcomes rather than focusing on technology implementation. To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www.HealthcareNOWRadio.com or ask your Smart Device to “….Play Healthcare NOW Radio”. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen

Hosts John Lynn and Colin Hung discuss Buy or Sell: Conference Edition. To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www.HealthcareNOWRadio.com or ask your Smart Device to “….Play Healthcare NOW Radio”. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen

On this first installment of the five-part series, Complex Compliance – Why Healthcare Laws are So Complicated, host Adam Russo, sits down with Ron Peck, Chief Legal Officer of The Phia Group, to unpack the growing legal and compliance challenges facing self-funded health plans, brokers, and administrators. They explore the rise of fiduciary breach litigation, increasing scrutiny around plan decision-making, and how long-standing industry practices are now being questioned in a rapidly evolving regulatory environment. Together, Adam and Ron break down real-world cases, emerging risks, and what these developments could mean for the future of healthcare cost management and compliance. To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www.HealthcareNOWRadio.com or ask your Smart Device to “….Play Healthcare NOW Radio”. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen”.

1 in 3 Women Unscreened On Closing the Cervical Cancer Gap Despite cervical cancer being nearly 100% preventable through routine screening, almost one in three U.S. women are behind, and the numbers have been moving in the wrong direction for a decade. Kara Egan, CEO and Co-Founder of Teal Health, left a career as a health tech investor to fix one of the most overlooked gaps in women's preventive care. In May 2025, Teal received the only FDA authorization for at-home cervical cancer screening, and just seven months later had scaled to all 50 states. In this conversation, Kara breaks down what it actually takes to redesign a screening process that hasn't meaningfully changed in 80 years, how regulatory alignment and updated clinical guidelines are reshaping the landscape, and what at-home diagnostics signal for the future of preventive care and women's health access broadly. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen/

On this episode, Carol welcomes Erin White to the show. Erin is the Senior Vice President of Brand Marketing and Communications for Buzz Health. At the start of 2026, the company made a seismic shift, moving from a consumer-facing prescription savings brand to a broader healthcare infrastructure and enterprise technology platform. Erin joins Carol to discuss the evolution from BuzzRx to Buzz Health, the power of storytelling in healthcare, and how branding can bring a more human voice to complex healthcare technology. To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www.HealthcareNOWRadio.com or ask your Smart Device to “….Play Healthcare NOW Radio”. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen

Payer & Provider Dynamics: Addressing Non-Medical Switching in Oncology for CLL/SLL On this episode guest host Ryan Haumschild, PharmD, MS, MBA, CPEL, Vice President of Pharmacy at Emory University and Emory Health Plan, Winship Cancer Institute, discusses the real-world impact of non-medical switching in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and small lymphocytic lymphoma (SLL) with Timothy Mok, Manager of Clinical Utilization Intelligence at Kaiser Permanente and board-certified oncology pharmacist, focusing on the drivers behind switching, the risks of disrupting effective therapy, and how shared decision-making and dose modification can help maintain adherence and improve patient outcomes. Sponsored by Abbvie. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen/

Wei-Li Shao on Omada's IPO & the Rapidly Evolving GLP-1 Market Wei-Li Shao returns to talk about Omada Health's IPO, the rapidly evolving landscape of GLP-1 therapies, market complexities associated with AI-driven innovation, and what it all tells us about consumer behaviors.  All that, plus the Flava of the Week comparing funding trends from Rock Health and Fitt Insider's latest reports. Where are checks being written for digital health, and what parallels are we seeing in the greater wellness landscape?  Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen/

The New Revenue Cycle Reality for Acute Care Leaders Hospitals are facing a new revenue cycle reality shaped by margin pressure, workforce constraints, payer complexity, denials, underpayments, and fragmented workflows. In this episode, Peggy Kelly, Tim Anderson, and Jason Adams of Infinx will explore what acute-care leaders need to rethink as revenue cycle performance becomes a strategic priority, not just an operational function. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen/

How to Build a Marketing Team That People Don't Want to Leave On this episode host Adam Turinas sits down with Larry Kaiser, Chief Marketing Officer at Optimum Healthcare IT, for a candid conversation about what it really takes to build a marketing team that lasts. Larry has spent nearly a decade growing the marketing function at Optimum from a logo and an outdated Drupal website into a tight, high-performing team. The lessons he has picked up along the way are ones that any marketing leader in healthtech will recognize. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen

Behavioral Health is Under Pressure, and Healthtech is Here to Help On this episode of In Practice, Dr. Robert Murry, chief medical officer at NextGen Healthcare, is joined by Javier Favela, vice president of market and segment strategy at NextGen Healthcare, and Erin Paige, solutions engineer at NextGen Healthcare and a licensed associate counselor, for a timely conversation on the pressures facing behavioral health organizations today. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen

On this episode Dan is joined by Jon Morris of ECG Management Consultants and Alex Krouse, Associate General Counsel for a large health system, to discuss the evolving challenges of physician compensation across growing provider enterprises. Together, they explore why traditional compensation structures are no longer sufficient, how health systems are managing increasingly sophisticated provider networks, and why compensation should be viewed as an enterprise-wide workforce strategy. The conversation also examines how organizations can balance standardized compensation approaches with physician-specific needs, improve transparency and stability in compensation design, and better align incentives with value-based care goals, operational performance, and long-term physician engagement. To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www.HealthcareNOWRadio.com or ask your Smart Device to “….Play Healthcare NOW Radio”. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen

On this episode Fred sits down with Matt Berseth, Co-Founder and CIO of Jacksonville-based AI and machine learning firm NLP Logix, for a candid conversation about artificial intelligence's uneven journey into healthcare. Berseth traces his path from a small North Dakota farm to co-founding one of America's fastest-growing AI companies, and reflects on the landmark moment in 2016 when NLP Logix's algorithm finished in the top five of the international "CAMELYON16" digital pathology challenge, competing against teams from MIT, Harvard, and Google. The episode covers why clinical AI has been so slow to scale despite impressive research results, where the real near-term opportunity lies (hint: it's in the back office and workflow automation, not the OR), and what healthcare executives should be doing right now to position their organizations for the AI-accelerated decade ahead. Berseth closes with a compelling call to prioritize organizational AI literacy, ie, the foundational investment that separates AI-ready health systems from those still waiting on the sidelines. To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www.HealthcareNOWRadio.com or ask your Smart Device to “….Play Healthcare NOW Radio”. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen

S1E2: What buyers and builders should know about Prior Auth Interoperability On this episode host Shahid Shah features a detailed discussion about CMS's new drug prior authorization interoperability proposed rule, focusing on the opportunities and challenges it presents for builders, buyers, and investors in healthcare technology. Who is about to build the wrong thing chasing the right problem? Comment period ends on 6/15/26. To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www.HealthcareNOWRadio.com or ask your Smart Device to “….Play Healthcare NOW Radio”. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen

Meet Inovalon at HFMA 2026 in booth 131 On this episode Tom sits down with Michael Dale, Director, Product Management at Inovalon, a company that delivers a fully connected revenue cycle spanning from patient access through final remittance for all payers. The result is a revenue cycle that doesn't just process claims, it comes together to prevent denials, recover missed revenue, and speed up cash flow. Michael shares insights on why they participate at HFMA conferences and what to see in their booth. To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www.HealthcareNOWRadio.com or ask your Smart Device to “….Play Healthcare NOW Radio”. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen

Cognitive Age or Cognitive Cage? John Nosta on AI, Humanity, and the Price of Shortcuts On this landmark fifth appearance on the show, digital health innovator and author John Nosta joins Gil for a conversation that crackles with intellectual honesty and hard-won wisdom. Drawing from his new book The Borrowed Mind: Reclaiming Human Thought in the Age of AI, Nosta traces his personal journey from AI enthusiast to cautious critic, not of the technology, but of what we risk surrendering to it. From "cognitive offloading" and the death of productive intellectual friction to why AI and human intelligence live on entirely different axes, this episode is essential listening for anyone navigating the convergence of technology and health.

Host Matt Fisher talks to Guillaume de Zwirek, CEO and Co-Founder of Artera, about evolution of technology in recent years; stages of agentic AI utilization; consideratins for effective deployment of AI tools and how to develop comfort and skills for use of AI tools. To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www.HealthcareNOWRadio.com or ask your Smart Device to “….Play Healthcare NOW Radio”. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen

Host Jim Tate welcomes Ritesh Ramesh, CEO of MDaudit. MDaudit strengthens billing compliance and revenue integrity with a single data-driven solution. Common reasons for claim denial and the impact on AI efficiencies are the topics in the discussion. To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www.HealthcareNOWRadio.com or ask your Smart Device to “….Play Healthcare NOW Radio”. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen

A must-listen episode: Host Dr. Jay Anders welcomes Kimberly Brandt, Chief Operating Officer and Deputy Administrator at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Together they discuss slow value-based care adoption in Medicare, CMS's data quality push through FHIR APIs and USCDI, and how AI will help flag fraud across millions of daily claims. Brandt also discusses what it means for CMS to pay for 'outcomes rather than transactions'. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen/

Are you tired of the "lazy way" to cut healthcare costs—just increasing deductibles and co-pays? In this episode, we're talking to someone who calls that approach what it is: the definition of insanity. Host Ramesh Kumar welcomes Adam V. Russo, Esq.—co-founder and visionary of The Phia Group, LLC, an innovative cost containment leader and attorney who represents employers and plan fiduciaries across the U.S. Adam is here to break down the secrets of delivering a great healthcare experience on a self-funded plan. You'll learn: • Why Direct Primary Care (DPC) is being called the "best" plan design choice for both employee retention and health, with studies showing a 13% reduction in overall claim spend in the first year. • How Adam's company, a successful self-funded employer, leveraged DPC to personally circumvent a $6,000 to $10,000 ER bill for just $80 a month. • The critical need for a complete employee mindset shift and a five-year education plan to truly win at cost management. Don't miss this powerful conversation on why increasing cost-sharing measures has failed, and how DPC offers a path to long-term success. Tune in now! Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen/

Transforming a clinical documentation integrity program takes more than just new technology, it takes exceptional leadership. Join Cheryl Manchenton and Dan Bray, CDI manager and “chart crusader” at Cape Fear Valley Health System. Dan shares his go-to moves for building trust, advancing collaboration and recognizing the everyday wins that keep staff motivated. Find inspiration to level up your CDI department and spark your own leadership journey. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen/

Episode 9: Referral Leakage, Potato Fields, and Johnny Cash with Zac Rice On this episode hosts Angie Shin and Dave Smith engage with healthcare operations and analytics professional, Zac Rice from Bingham Memorial in Blackfoot, Idaho. Zac walks through the full arc: how you find internal referral leaks, fix them with people and process, then partner with the right technology to turn a one-time win into a compounding system that funds MRIs, robots, and better care for a rural community. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen/

The Future of RCM Is Finally Catching Up Stuart Newsome is joined by Monte Sandler, Chief Operating Officer at WebPT, for a thought-leadership conversation on why healthcare RCM has remained so difficult to automate, why many organizations are skeptical after past technology disappointments, and how AI may finally help modernize the revenue cycle in a more dynamic, human-in-the-loop way. The conversation will explore what makes healthcare different from other industries, where traditional automation has fallen short, how AI should be realistically understood, and why the future of RCM is less about replacing people and more about helping teams work smarter, faster, and with better support. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen/

S1E11: AI and Prescription Price Transparency, with Miriam Paramore, Founder and CEO of RxUtility On this episode, host Dr. Heather Bassett welcomes Miriam Paramore, founder and CEO of RxUtility, discussing a problem most patients don't realize exists: prescription drug prices are opaque, highly variable across pharmacies, and can fluctuate multiple times in a single day — leaving patients to discover the real cost only when they reach the counter. Miriam explains how RxUtility functions as a utility layer across health systems, payers, pharmacists, and digital health partners, aggregating insurance copays, manufacturer coupons, cash prices, and direct-to-consumer options into a single, actionable view at the point of prescribing and pickup. Miriam shares how she built RxUtility from inception with a small team by leaning on AI in place of traditional legal, financial, and operational roles — and what that taught her about the real-world limits and potential of agentic AI in healthcare. Dr. Bassett and Miriam also discuss Mimi™, RxUtility's generative AI orchestrator managing real-time pricing data across 20,000 drugs and 60,000 pharmacies, and their shared belief that AI should enhance clinical efficiency to bring more human connection to patient care. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen/

The Quest to Make Healthcare Preventive, Personalized & Retail-Like Join the celebration of reaching 500 episodes! Jared and Zain point to insights that have stood out as consumer-centric healthcare has evolved, and connect the dots for what's coming next, from how perceptions have shifted over the years, to how preventive health has moved from the margins to the middle, what role the health tech ecosystem is playing, and what it all means for everyday people engaging in their health.  All that, plus the Flava of the Week about the Movement of Consumer Health. What's driving the greatest momentum that we've ever seen in this space, and how are we influencing the industry to grow its adoption? Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen/

Ericka Adler is joined by Roetzel shareholder Christina Kuta to discuss the growing trend of patients recording medical visits and sharing health care interactions on social media, and what health care providers should consider before allowing recordings in their practices. The episode explores HIPAA and privacy concerns, consent requirements, reputational risks, and the legal challenges that can arise when patient recordings are shared online. Ericka and Christina also discuss why health care practices should consider implementing recording policies and what providers can do when unauthorized recordings or misleading social media posts impact their practice. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen/

A Practical Guide to Intent-Driven ABM and AI in Healthtech This episode is the final installment in a three-part miniseries on ABM and go-to-market strategy, and it is extremely practical. Host Adam Turinas is joined by guest Rehan Mirza, Chief Growth Officer at Verifiable, a credentialing automation platform that has lived through every stage of the ABM journey, from cold outbound blasting to sophisticated, intent-driven orchestration across a complex enterprise sales motion. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen/

Five Good Things Join us for Five Good Things with Janae Sharp and Megan Antonelli: A rapid-fire segment highlighting positive developments in digital health. Janae and Megan share insights on recent innovations, successful implementations, and emerging trends that are driving progress in healthcare technology. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen/

Digital Empathy: Rethinking the Patient Experience with John Deutsch of Bridge On this episode host Tom Testa sits down with John Deutsch, CEO of Bridge, for a conversation about one of healthcare's biggest ongoing challenges: creating a patient experience that actually feels connected, transparent, and human. John shares why so many healthcare organizations are struggling under what he calls a “technology soup” of disconnected scheduling, intake, messaging, payment, and engagement tools, and how that fragmentation creates frustration for both patients and care teams. The discussion explores Bridge's philosophy of “digital empathy,” a belief that technology should reduce friction, build trust, and strengthen the relationship between patients and providers instead of adding more complexity. To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www.HealthcareNOWRadio.com or ask your Smart Device to “….Play Healthcare NOW Radio”. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen

Skin Cancer Alternative Treatment Option with Joseph Sardano, CEO at Sensus Healthcare. There is a "new" alternative to surgery for treating skin cancer. Superficial Radiation Therapy (SRT) uses photon radiotherapy that penetrates only 5mm to treat skin cancer without cutting, bleeding, or scarring. Comparable cure rates matching the gold standard of Mohs surgery. For many patients, this is a better patient experience with no stitches, no healing downtime, and no activity restrictions. Patients can golf, swim, and live normally during the 3–4 week treatment course. Good news as it is now covered by Medicare as SRT has its own CPT code, making reimbursement clear for dermatologists and affordable for patients. So for those with this diagnosis, have the conversation and ask your dermatologist about new options available. To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www.HealthcareNOWRadio.com or ask your Smart Device to “….Play Healthcare NOW Radio”. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen

Hosts Colin Hung and John Lynn discuss Trends in Healthcare Marketing and Patient Experience. To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www.HealthcareNOWRadio.com or ask your Smart Device to “….Play Healthcare NOW Radio”. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen

S3E7: Bridging the Divide: How Provider Sponsored Health Plans Navigate Financial Pressure and More Host: Frank Cutitta Guest: Jesse Fasolo, PhD, CHCIO, CDH-E To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www.HealthcareNOWRadio.com or ask your Smart Device to “….Play Healthcare NOW Radio”. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen

Nursing at the Center: How AI, Virtual Care, and Human-Centered Design Are Transforming the Bedside at Advocate Health Host: Megan Antonelli Guest: Tracy Breece, MSN, RN, CENP, NI-BC, CPHIMS, Vice President Nursing Innovation, AI, & Emerging Technologies, Advocate Health At Advocate Health, nursing is not adapting to AI. Nursing is driving the adoption. Tracy Breece, VP of Nursing Innovation, AI and Emerging Technologies, shares how one of the nation's largest health systems is building the hospital room of the future with nurses at the center of every design decision, workflow, and implementation strategy. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen/