Podcasts about cricket health

Today, we're excited to speak with Arvind Rajan, Co-founder and CEO/Executive Chairman of Cricket Health.  Arvind led Cricket Health which is a technology-enabled specialty care provider for patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and end-stage renal disease (ESRD). In August 2022, Cricket Health merged with Interwell and Fresenius Health Partners to form the new Interwell Health, a leader in value-based kidney care. Before co-founding Cricket Health, Arvind served as Managing Director and Vice President of New Markets at LinkedIn, where he was responsible for the company's growth and operations in Asia Pacific and Japan.   Arvind has spent most of his career building companies across a wide range of industries. Although the industries have been different, every one of these companies was trying to create transformative change that would have a positive impact on the world. In this insightful discussion, Arvind opens up about his career path, the challenges and successes in building Cricket Health from scratch, practical advice for fundraising, and valuable insights for aspiring startup founders such as strategies and tips for conducting productive board meetings.

Today, we're excited to get to know Dr. Andrew Schutzbank. Andrew spent almost a decade at Iora health, where he held the esteemed positions of Medical Director and Senior Vice President, overseeing clinical operations and product development. He was also the Chief Product Officer at Cricket Health, an organization dedicated to value-based kidney care. He was the Corporate Development Operating Partner at SCAN and now contributes as a board member, advisor, and investor for multiple startups. He is also a clinical instructor at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Schutzbank completed his residency at Beth Israel and holds an MD and MPH from Tulane University, along with a BA in neuroscience from the University of Pennsylvania.  In this episode we talk about his journey to medicine, experience with Iora and Cricket Health, what he looks for in a healthcare pitch, tips/tricks for founders, and insights on the high burnout rate among clinicians.

Arvind Rajan has “hit a six” with his latest entrepreneurial endeavor, Cricket Health. From being part of the executive leadership team at LinkedIn to now founding a transformative healthcare company, Arvind is an entrepreneur and leader of many flavors. Curiosity, a desire to make an impact, and a hunger to learn from industry leaders across various sectors have driven Arvind toward his venture into the healthcare space. Seeking to shift the focus of kidney disease treatment from life support to preventative care, Arvind has played a key role in transforming value-based kidney disease care. In this episode, we speak with Arvind about his journey to founding Cricket Health and his reflections on this exciting venture. Do you have any thoughts? Please email us at hello@rosenmaninstitute.org. We post new episodes every Monday. “The Health Technology Podcast” is produced by Herminio Neto, hosted by Christine Winoto, and engineered by Andrew John Rojek

In this episode, we connected with Josh Hix, Co-Founder and CEO of Season Health. Season Health is a platform that connects members with healthy meal ideas and grocery options to help members and providers manage chronic conditions. Prior to starting Season Health, Josh co-founded the meal prep delivery service Plated, which led to an appearance on SharkTank. Season Health recently raised $34M in Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz. LRV Ventures, Company Ventures, Cityblock CEO Toyin Ajayi and other angel investors also participated in the round. Prior to this, Season Health raised $11M in seed funding. We discussed: Leveraging Josh's prior experience co-founding Plated to realize a vision of creating a consumer-grade software platform that connects food and medicine. Season Health's mission to make nutritious food more accessible by shaping the increasingly digital food environment and partnering with payers to make food more affordable to improve health outcomes for patients with chronic diseases. Partnering with healthcare industry leaders Geisinger, CommonSpirit, and Cricket Health to scale Season Health's offering and enrich scientific research linking nutrition with better chronic disease management.

Before I get into the show today, let me just remind everybody about our mailing list, which you can sign up for on our Web site, relentlesshealthvalue.com. You might follow Relentless Health Value on LinkedIn or Twitter, which is a great option, for sure; but I wanted to point out that what you see there is abridged at some level. Meanwhile, if you subscribe to our mailing list directly (again, by going to our Web site, relentlesshealthvalue.com—it's over on the right sidebar where you can sign up for the mailing list), if you subscribe that way, each week you'll get an email with a full transcription of the whole introduction of the show with timed show notes. Also, we don't send out literally anything else beyond what I just described on a weekly basis. Also, you can unsubscribe easily and anytime you want. You just hit the unsubscribe in the email. Also, we don't share our list with anybody. We barely have time to look at it ourselves, so if you have any concerns there in that regard, please don't.  Last week's show (EP359) was with Dan O'Neill, and he talked about the four gradations of value-based payments, from paying purely for volume on one end of the continuum to paying purely for value on the other. When you have a moment (not now, but when you can), go back and listen to that show, as it adds some color to what we talk about in this healthcare podcast.  But in the meantime, one of the points that Dan O'Neill makes is that patients in this country won't gain the benefits of value-based care unless commercial insurers pay for value, for reals. After all, value-based payments are payments that incentivize value-based care. Without value-based payments, how does anyone expect to get value-based care? To belabor this point momentarily, a provider is not gonna switch up their FFS business model when insurers, especially commercial insurers, pay whatever for whatever with no reward going to providers who spend time and effort to create value and/or better outcomes for patients. I'm being super cynical here, I will grant you. But in this day and age of private equity and record profits by a consolidated healthcare industry, if I'm in charge of a provider organization just realistically here, Pramod John, PhD, says this really well in EP352. He's talking about drug development in that episode, but same thing here is true for medical care. If you indiscriminately pay Ferrari prices for Hyundais, you're gonna get a Hyundai for the price of a Ferrari.   To add insult to injury—and this is just one important reason why providers aren't really willing to invest in lifting outcomes—any value that they would manage to create is gonna be realized by the insurers. It's gonna go right back into insurers' pockets. Steve Schutzer, MD, talks about this in his episode (Encore! EP294) about the why and how to create a center of excellence. If, as a provider in a pure volume contract which is FFS, I work really hard to save downstream costs and complications for patients, some carrier is gonna bank the difference.   It's go time, all you self-insured employers out there. Pay for high quality. Make the carrot an orange-colored stick, as they say. Patients will benefit. Probably doctors and other clinicians, too, honestly: less moral injury and crappy workflows. In this healthcare podcast, I am talking with Jeb Dunkelberger. Jeb Dunkelberger is the CEO of Sutter Health | Aetna, which is a payvider. Payviders, by Jeb's definition, take on full risk. They have a full-risk insurance product, meaning they must switch up their business model and how they deliver care so that it works in a total capitation payment situation. We go deep on payviders the last time Jeb was on the show (EP348). But in this relatively short conversation, I wanted to talk to Jeb about the operational imperatives of moving to value-based care, moving to a care model that is aligned with value-based payments—what needs to switch up in the day-to-day to ensure that patients don't have care gaps that cause expensive trouble downstream, or patients at rising risk get taken care of promptly before something avoidable and/or acute (ie, expensive) happens.   There are three main things that Jeb talks about: Fixing up the clinical workflow Having care navigators Aligning physician comp to organizational goals Let me dig into each one of them briefly. 1. Fixing up the clinical workflow. There's basically five aspects to that: Ensuring that the right data is in the clinical workflow. Let's talk about this data for just one sec and we'll find actually one more reason that payers and purchasers need to get kinda engaged in this making sure members get care thing. Because data—data that payers have that is needed at the point of care. Like claims data. Please provide it to providers and actually insist that it gets used by clinicians making clinical decisions at the point of care. Ensuring that there are pick lists of drugs, with generic drugs first Making sure it's easy to get to pended orders that close care gaps right within the clinical workflow Empowering medical assistants and holding them responsible to create value for members Building referral management into the clinical workflow in pursuit of a nonfragmented patient journey 2. Having care navigators. I just want to remind everyone: This is even more important if the EHR doesn't support referral navigation. Also, Liliana Petrova talks about this extensively, the need for care navigators, in EP357. She's talking about it relative to telehealth, and she makes a really important point: If you want to ensure that the right patients are getting telehealth and also taking advantage of it to streamline their longitudinal care and make it less fragmented, you have to have navigators involved in scheduling. Otherwise, how's a patient supposed to know whether to go in person or telehealth or even that telehealth is available?  3. Aligning physician comp to organizational goals. We definitely get into this in some detail. We cover these three top-line operational must-haves in this episode, and you'll hear about them right from a CEO who is doing them right now. Besides this conversation, another resource I would highly recommend checking out is a recent article in Nature entitled “Deploying Digital Health Tools Within Large, Complex Health Systems.” While this article is about digital health tools (obviously by its title), 80% of the article is pertinent to deploying pretty much anything in a big provider organization, including an upgrade to value-based care delivery—and/or probably digital health tools are pretty requisite in any attempt to effectively remodel the clinical workflow in this way in 2022, so there's that, too.   For additional Relentless Health Value episodes on this topic of how to build an operational model that fulfills value-based care objectives, I'd listen to the show with Shawn Rhodes on the essentials for clinical integration (EP354)—also the show with Lisa Trumble (EP349) on what that clinical integration looks like from a care perspective. I am also going to refer you to the episode next week (EP361) with Carly Eckert, MD, MPH. So, check that out for sure. We talk about care gaps.  You can learn more at sutterhealthaetna.com.   You can also connect with Jeb on LinkedIn and follow him on Twitter.   Jeb Dunkelberger, MSc, MHCI, currently serves as CEO of Sutter Health | Aetna (SH|A), a commercial insurance plan serving Northern California. The health plan aims to combine the value of retail, provider, and payer via its partnerships with CVS, Sutter Health, and Aetna. Prior to SH|A, Jeb led growth for two bay-area healthcare start-ups: Cricket Health and Notable Health. Jeb has also held executive roles at Highmark, McKesson, and EY. Jeb holds healthcare-related degrees from Virginia Tech, The London School of Economics, Cornell University, and University of Pennsylvania. 08:36 What must a provider organization consider operationally when incorporating value-based care and value-based payments? 09:44 How can you use perverse incentives to encourage people to do the right thing? 12:25 How should clinical workflows operate to incorporate value-based care? 14:10 “How do you align patients?” 15:52 How should the EHR operate to maximize value-based workflow? 16:52 Why is taking action on claims data and clinical data together important? 20:26 “Have they actually solved the last mile of integrations?” 21:15 “Changing the behavior of a provider is an absolute art and science.” 22:57 “We have to do more.” 27:09 “That administrative headache … doesn't just end with the insurer.” You can learn more at sutterhealthaetna.com.   You can also connect with Jeb on LinkedIn and follow him on Twitter.   @Jeb_Dunk discusses #valuebased #clinicalworkflows in this week's #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #vbc #valuebasedcare #ffs What must a provider organization consider operationally when incorporating value-based care and value-based payments? @Jeb_Dunk discusses #valuebased #clinicalworkflows in this week's #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #vbc #valuebasedcare #ffs How can you use perverse incentives to encourage people to do the right thing? @Jeb_Dunk discusses #valuebased #clinicalworkflows in this week's #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #vbc #valuebasedcare #ffs How should clinical workflows operate to incorporate value-based care? @Jeb_Dunk discusses #valuebased #clinicalworkflows in this week's #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #vbc #valuebasedcare #ffs “How do you align patients?” @Jeb_Dunk discusses #valuebased #clinicalworkflows in this week's #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #vbc #valuebasedcare #ffs How should the EHR operate to maximize value-based workflow? @Jeb_Dunk discusses #valuebased #clinicalworkflows in this week's #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #vbc #valuebasedcare #ffs Why is taking action on claims data and clinical data together important? @Jeb_Dunk discusses #valuebased #clinicalworkflows in this week's #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #vbc #valuebasedcare #ffs “Have they actually solved the last mile of integrations?” @Jeb_Dunk discusses #valuebased #clinicalworkflows in this week's #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #vbc #valuebasedcare #ffs “Changing the behavior of a provider is an absolute art and science.” @Jeb_Dunk discusses #valuebased #clinicalworkflows in this week's #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #vbc #valuebasedcare #ffs “We have to do more.” @Jeb_Dunk discusses #valuebased #clinicalworkflows in this week's #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #vbc #valuebasedcare #ffs “That administrative headache … doesn't just end with the insurer.” @Jeb_Dunk discusses #valuebased #clinicalworkflows in this week's #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #vbc #valuebasedcare #ffs Recent past interviews: Click a guest's name for their latest RHV episode! Dan O'Neill, Dr Wayne Jenkins, Liliana Petrova, Ge Bai, Nikhil Krishnan, Shawn Rhodes, Pramod John (EP353), Pramod John (EP352), Dr Eric Bricker, Katy Talento, Stacey Richter (INBW33), Stacey Richter (INBW32), Dr Steve Schutzer (Encore! EP294), Lisa Trumble, Jeb Dunkelberger, Dr Ian Tong, Mike Schneider, Peter Hayes, Paul Simms, Dr Steven Quimby, Dr David Carmouche (EP343), Christin Deacon, Gary Campbell, Kristin Begley, David Contorno (AEE17), David Contorno (EP339), Nikki King, Olivia Webb  

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We've reViVEd from ViVE and the HIMMSanity is over! Jess and Matthew are back to discuss more multimillion-dollar deals: Fresenius/Interwell/Cricket Health is merging to 2.4 billion valuation; Embold Health gets $26 million; Canopy gets $13 million; Vira Health gets $12 million; and Woebot gets $9 million.

We've reViVEd from ViVE and the HIMMSanity is over! Jess and Matthew are back to discuss more multimillion-dollar deals: Fresenius/Interwell/Cricket Health is merging to 2.4 billion valuation; Embold Health gets $26 million; Canopy gets $13 million; Vira Health gets $12 million; and Woebot gets $9 million.

The discussion to follow is probably a 400-level class in payviders. If I just said the word payvider and you're scratching your head wondering where you may have heard that term before, this show is probably not the best place for you to start. I'd go back and get some context by listening first to the episodes with Steve Blumberg from GuideWell (EP304) and/or the one with John Moore from Chilmark (EP172); and for a really retrospective lookback, check out the one episode with Dr. Kris Smith from Northwell (EP127) from back when they were still trying to become an insurance carrier. It's like a time capsule into their ambitions.   OK, if you're still with me, in this episode I'm looking forward to digging into payviders with Jeb Dunkelberger, who is the CEO of Sutter Health | Aetna. Sutter Health | Aetna is the payvider joint venture between, you guessed it, Sutter Health and Aetna. Not only is Jeb one who would obviously know a whole lot about payviders and how they operate given his role, but he's also super articulate and thoughtful in terms of the potential impacts that this type of entity can have on patients and the surrounding healthcare ecosystem. I started to get really curious about payviders and what they're up to because the term keeps coming up in conversations, number one. And the more it came up, the more it started to become really obvious that payvider is one of those terms that everybody tosses around and may or may not define it the same way. Jeb refers to a payvider as an entity that delivers care but also writes insurance products and takes risk for them—not just taking capitated payments or doing direct contracting. While it's the employer who actually takes the risk, this is the definition of payvider that we explore in this healthcare podcast. Two kinds of interesting points that Jeb makes, which I'll just underscore here: One is “demand destruction.” I like the idea of the term because it brings a really obvious point into stark focus. Bottom line, taking on risk or value-based programs is easier if you are a smaller percentage of the healthcare spend. The bigger a percentage of the healthcare spend that gets cha-chinged into your cash register, the more you destroy your own demand by creating value-based programs that minimize downstream costs. Those downstream costs are your revenue, after all. Value-based care is all about demand destruction at its core. In the last question of this interview (so, this is the second thing I'm underscoring here), I ask Jeb if he thinks payviders will ultimately lower healthcare costs; and he comes back with a reframe of my question. He says if we take costs out of the system, will hospitals close? And if the hospitals close, then people get laid off. Fair point, since in many places the health system is one of the biggest employers in town if not the biggest—and also a political tour de force. So, there's more nuances here; but you'll have to either get to or skip to almost the end of the episode to hear them. Jeb Dunkelberger began his career as a health economist and consultant. He became the CEO of Sutter Health | Aetna to focus on alternative reimbursement models and value-based care. Jeb also wrote a book called Rich & Dying. You can learn more at sutterhealthaetna.com.   You can also connect with Jeb on LinkedIn and follow him on Twitter.   Jeb Dunkelberger, MSc, MHCI, currently serves as CEO of Sutter Health | Aetna (SH|A), a commercial insurance plan serving Northern California. The health plan aims to combine the value of retail, provider, and payer via its partnerships with CVS, Sutter Health, and Aetna. Prior to SH|A, Jeb led growth for two bay-area healthcare start-ups: Cricket Health and Notable Health. Jeb has also held executive roles at Highmark, McKesson, and EY. Jeb holds healthcare-related degrees from Virginia Tech, The London School of Economics, Cornell University, and University of Pennsylvania. 03:58 What all does Sutter Health | Aetna entail? 04:31 What does it mean to be a “performance network”? 04:48 What does it mean to be a payvider? 06:35 How common are payviders? 07:31 “We are writing direct risk.” 09:21 How does the fully insured product work? 12:30 “You want to hold their feet to the fire, from a value-based perspective.” 12:42 What's the incentive for providers to partner with payers? 15:25 “It's just math. It's the amount of lives times the amount of utilization multiplied by your unit costs.” 20:58 “You have to have a day of reckoning, and that only comes from financial incentives creating that gateway out.” 24:55 How do we think about reform and taking money out of the healthcare system? 26:58 “We also have to talk about repurposing the workforce.” 27:27 “We need to upskill our workforce.” 30:14 “Can a health system survive as the largest employer, year over year, if they give unit cost concessions, year over year? … The answer is no.” You can learn more at sutterhealthaetna.com.   You can also connect with Jeb on LinkedIn and follow him on Twitter.   @Jeb_Dunk discusses #payviders on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth What all does Sutter Health | Aetna entail? @Jeb_Dunk discusses #payviders on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth What does it mean to be a “performance network”? @Jeb_Dunk discusses #payviders on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth What does it mean to be a payvider? @Jeb_Dunk discusses #payviders on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth How common are payviders? @Jeb_Dunk discusses #payviders on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth “We are writing direct risk.” @Jeb_Dunk discusses #payviders on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth How does the fully insured product work? @Jeb_Dunk discusses #payviders on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth “You want to hold their feet to the fire, from a value-based perspective.” @Jeb_Dunk discusses #payviders on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth What's the incentive for providers to partner with payers? @Jeb_Dunk discusses #payviders on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth “It's just math. It's the amount of lives times the amount of utilization multiplied by your unit costs.” @Jeb_Dunk discusses #payviders on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth “You have to have a day of reckoning, and that only comes from financial incentives creating that gateway out.” @Jeb_Dunk discusses #payviders on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth “We also have to talk about repurposing the workforce.” @Jeb_Dunk discusses #payviders on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth “We need to upskill our workforce.” @Jeb_Dunk discusses #payviders on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth “Can a health system survive as the largest employer, year over year, if they give unit cost concessions, year over year? … The answer is no.” @Jeb_Dunk discusses #payviders on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth Recent past interviews: Click a guest's name for their latest RHV episode! Dr Ian Tong, Mike Schneider, Peter Hayes, Paul Simms, Dr Steven Quimby, Dr David Carmouche (EP343), Christin Deacon, Gary Campbell, Kristin Begley, David Contorno (AEE17), David Contorno (EP339), Nikki King, Olivia Webb, Brandon Weber, Stacey Richter (INBW30), Brian Klepper (AEE16), Brian Klepper (EP335), Sunita Desai, Care Plans vs Real World (EP333), Dr Tony DiGioia, Al Lewis, John Marchica, Joe Connolly, Marshall Allen, Andrew Eye, Naomi Fried, Dr Rishi Wadhera, Dr Mai Pham

Dr. Carmen Peralta is the Chief Medical Officer at Cricket Health. She co-founded the Kidney Health Research Collaborative at University of California San Francisco and the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center. She works to provide support to patients, doctors and all the steps in between to improve kidney health outcomes.  Dr. Peralta recommends these sites to learn more: CDC Chronic Kidney Disease Initiative https://www.cdc.gov/kidneydisease/index.html UCSF Kidney Health Research Collaborative https://khrc.ucsf.edu/ Solvable is produced by Jocelyn Frank, David Zha, Lisa Dunn and Keishel Wiliams. The managing producer is Sachar Mathias and our executive producer is Mia Lobel. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

It's the return of #HealthIn2Point00 after an overly long summer break (well, I went to HIMSS and Jess didn't last week!). We have deals with Maven raising a big round, Cricket Health (from a few weeks back) filling its coffers and another fertility play, Carrot Fertility, getting $75m. Finally Sharecare gets its checkbook out — again–and buys a home care company. We have more to catch up on tomorrow

Dr. Andrew Schutzbank is a Clinical Instructor of Medicine at Harvard, Chief Product Officer at Cricket Health, and was formerly the SVP of Product at Iora Health. We discuss technology adoption and creation in primary care, payment models, business models, and what can be learned in the specialty space, with particular focus in the diabetes world in his work at Cricket.

America’s relationship with Dialysis is out of control. Roughly 1% of the entire federal budget is spent treating people with kidney failure. That’s billions of dollars devoted to treating one preventable illness. How did we end up with so many people on dialysis? And who’s getting rich from it? This week, we connect the dots from Richard Nixon to Dr. Evil and talk with disruptors who have some new ideas for how to fix the system. Bobby Sepucha, Will Stokes and nephrologist Dr. Natasha Dave join us to talk about how these kidney care disruptors are prioritizing patients and their overall health. Resources from the episode: Learn more about Strive Health’s Kidney Heros: https://www.strivehealth.com Read up on Cricket Health’s kidney care model: https://www.crickethealth.com Listen to Dr. Dave’s podcast on life as a nephrologist: https://www.kidney.org/podcast Keep up with David on twitter @CHIDavidSmith. Share your feedback! Email us at costofcare@lemonadamedia.com or leave us a voicemail at 833-453-6662. Support for this episode of The Cost of Care comes from Healthline.com, America’s leading digital health brand. Visit healthline.com/costofcare now, and stay connected by following @healthline on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. Healthline: Powering healthy actions and supporting you on your journey to well-being. Support for this podcast comes from The Commonwealth Fund, a health care research foundation working to improve the U.S. health system. Visit commonwealthfund.org/costofcare, and stay connected by following us on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram. Commonwealth Fund: Affordable, quality health care. For everyone. You can click this link for a full list of current sponsors and discount codes for this show and all Lemonada shows. To follow along with a transcript and/or take notes for friends and family, go to https://www.lemonadamedia.com/show/thecostofcare/ shortly after the air date. Stay up to date with us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram at @LemonadaMedia.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Our guest: Robert Sepucha, CEO at Cricket Health. "Cricket Health is a specialty kidney care provider of integrated nephrology and dialysis care for people with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) and End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD)." On this episode, we discussed: - His background - How he got to where he is today - What is Cricket Health? - What's next? - ...and much more! Our sponsors for this episode are BlocHealth and Curation Health. BlocHealth is building the ecosystem of services and solutions to power the future of healthcare. Through their platform, healthcare professionals and organizations can enter, upload and share core credentialing documents and information. Professionals and organizations then have the opportunity to use that information to order multiple services and solutions like credentialing, state license registration, certifications, payer enrollment, renewals, and more! On average, the BlocHealth platform saves users 40-60% on credentialing and licensing-related costs. Organizations can use BlocHealth as an extension of their team, or as their whole licensing and credentialing team. For more information, please go to www.blochealth.com and be sure to follow BlocHealth on social media - @blochealth "Curation Health’s advanced clinical decision support platform seamlessly integrates into the electronic health record and leverages more than 750 proven clinical and quality rules. With this intelligent point-of-care platform, you can power a scalable risk adjustment process and amplify quality program performance." For more information, please go to www.curationhealthcare.com and be sure to follow Curation Health on social media - @curationhealth To learn more about Cricket Health please use the links below: - Website - LinkedIn - Twitter - Facebook Also, be sure to follow Slice of Healthcare on our social channels: - Website - Facebook - LinkedIn - Twitter - YouTube - Newsletter

Cricket Health CEO, Robert Sepucha, joins the show to discuss what's wrong with kidney care in the USA and why so many Americans are on dialysis. Subscribe to CareTalk on your favorite podcast service:Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2GTYhbN...​...Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...​...Google Podcasts https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0...​...Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/zjm6nkv0G64About Robert Sepucha:Robert Sepucha is the CEO of Cricket Health. Robert's diverse background includes everything from practicing law in Silicon Valley, to serving as Chief of Staff to a dynamic member of Congress. He has launched a billion-dollar state agency to support life sciences, and worked as a senior executive for Fresenius Medical Care, one of the world's largest health care companies.#healthcare #health #kidneyhealth #dialysis #healthcarepolicy #healthcarebusiness #crickethealth #caretalk

In honor of National Kidney Month, Bobby Sepucha, CEO of Cricket Health, and Tom Robinson from Oliver Wyman discuss the current state of Chronic Kidney Disease. Learn how Cricket Health’s strategies for detecting kidney disease earlier are helping keep patients rushing to the emergency room, not realizing what’s wrong with them. See some memorable stats from this episode: https://health.oliverwyman.com/2021/03/90--of-chronic-kidney-disease-patients-don-t-know-they-have-it-.html For more information, follow us on Twitter @OWHealthEditor, read our online healthcare publication at health.oliverwyman.com, and see our guest roster: oliverwyman.com/oliverwymanhealthpodcast. Questions or comments? Email Oliver Wyman Health's Editor, jacqueline.dichiara@oliverwyman.com.

Chronic kidney disease kills more people than breast or prostate cancer each year – it's the 9th leading cause of death but you won't see NFL players wearing socks and gloves to increase awareness. Thirty-seven million people in the U.S., or 15 percent of adults, are impacted by CKD, and around 90 percent of those with the disease don't even know they have it! Treating kidney disease costs the Medicare program $130B and although patients with kidney failure account for only one percent of the Medicare population, they are responsible for over seven percent of all Medicare spending. Over the last 40-50 years, kidney care has experienced significantly less transformation than other areas like diabetes, cardiology, cancer, and HIV/AIDS. We have been failing in kidney care for far too long, and instead of focusing just on dialysis, we need to realize that kidney disease is more than just ESRD, and there is way more to ESRD than just in-center dialysis. This historic stagnation in kidney care with a large population now in crisis is a hugely abundant opportunity for innovative companies like Cricket Health to come in and change the game. In this week's episode, we are joined by Bobby Sepucha, CEO of Cricket Health, a specialty care management company leading the way in the Value-based kidney care space. National Kidney Month is the right time to discuss how we can win this Race to Value with integrated nephrology and dialysis care for people with Chronic Kidney Disease and End Stage Renal Disease. Episode Bookmarks: 02:00 37 million people in the U.S., or 15 percent of adults, are impacted by CKD, and around 90 percent of those with the disease don't even know they have it! 02:15 Medicare pays well over $100 billion for people with all stages of renal disease, which was nearly 20 percent of all Medicare spending last year. 02:45 While just one percent of Medicare beneficiaries have kidney failure, kidney failure accounts for over seven percent of all Medicare spending! 05:35 The system is designed to fail patients with chronic kidney disease 07:45 How the 1972 Medicare enrollment eligibility provision for ESRD patients created an unintended consequence of earlier stage CKD patients getting neglected 08:09 President Trump's Executive Order on Advancing American Kidney Health (July 2019) 08:35 Bobby recalls his work with CMS and Congress to bring the ESRD Seamless Care Organization (ESCO) alternative payment model into fruition 09:00 “Unless we go upstream and start engaging patients prior to kidney failure, success in value-based kidney care will be limited.” 09:30 40% annualized mortality rate for dialysis patients can only be addressed by upstream CKD intervention 09:40 The new Kidney Care Choices (KCC) and the ESRD Treatment Choices (ETC) payment models 11:50 “Only 12% of ESRD patients today in America dialyze at home – that lags other nations to such an alarming degree.” 12:15 “If you were going to design the worst imaginable healthcare delivery system for kidney patients, you'd come up with the one we have here in America. Costs are astronomical, outcomes are terrible, mortality rates are through the roof, everyone is dialyzing in a center instead of home…it just doesn't make any sense.” 12:55 60-65% of ESRD patients “crash” into dialysis with an ER visit 14:00 Cricket's model for upstream CKD intervention 15:00 “Getting patients to dialyze at home is a multifactorial problem.” 16:15 The overlap of nephrology and palliative care 18:00 Telehealth is the silver lining to the pandemic 18:30 A patient story about the success of transitioning to home-based dialysis 19:55 The appalling lack of kidney care innovation over the last 40-50 years 22:20 The obesity epidemic and exploding kidney care costs over the last few decades 23:00 Working with payers for a more holistic approach to value-based kidney care 23:45 Payer goals: 1) reduce CKD hospital utilizatio...

 Lynne Robertson, CEO of FAME and founder of Lead Like a Mother is interviewed on Mission Matters Business with Adam Torres.In this in-depth interview, Robertson tells the story of purchasing FAME from Omnicom to become a fully independent woman-owned enterprise. Using experience gained serving retail clients, Robertson and team expanded FAMEs' offerings to reach a broader demographic, including healthcare organizations such as St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Cricket Health and The Good Clinic.  Further expansion into fitness and recreation led to brand-building and experiential work for Anytime Fitness and Polaris, among others.Follow Adam on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/askadamtorres/ for up to date information on book releases and tour schedule.Apply to be interviewed by Adam on our podcast:https://missionmatters.lpages.co/podcastguest/Visit our website:https://missionmatters.com/

Today on Health in 2 Point 00, Jess is dismayed at her rising premiums. On Episode 162, Jess and Matthew have more deals to cover. Whoop, which makes a wearable, raises $100 million (including SoftBank money!), bringing their valuation to $1.2 billion. Next, Honor raises $140 million in a Series D and Matthew weigh in on how this tech-enabled home care startup has evolved since it started out. DTx company Sidekick Health raises $20 million for its gamified medication management platform,, and SaaS telehealth platform eVisit gets $14 million—is this any different? Finally, Cricket Health which manages complex kidney diseases early names new CEO Robert Sepucha and raises $15 million.

On The Anxious Achiever, Morra Aarons-Mele explores the way anxiety, depression, and other mental health issues affect people at work – for better or worse. In this episode, she speaks with clinical psychologist Ellen Hendriksen and Arvind Rajan, the CEO of Cricket Health, about the tension between work and social anxiety. "The Anxious Achiever with Morra Aarons-Mele" is part of HBR Presents, a new network of business podcasts curated by HBR editors. For our full lineup of shows, search “HBR” on your favorite podcast app or visit hbr.org/podcasts.

We're often told that to succeed in the workplace, you need to bring your A game, play office politics, and network nonstop. But how do you do that when you suffer from social anxiety? Host Morra Aarons-Mele speaks with Ellen Hendriksen, a clinical psychologist, and Arvind Rajan, the CEO of Cricket Health and a former executive at LinkedIn, to discuss his journey with anxiety.

Did you hear President Trump talking about Kidney Health this summer? A new Executive Order on “Advancing American Kidney Health” was signed in July and multiple CMS regulations followed. These regulations represent a major change in reimbursement for kidney disease, and introduce three new programs to incentivize changes in disease management. In this episode, we are thrilled to talk with Bobby Sepucha, Chief Administrative Officer of Cricket Health. Cricket Health is a comprehensive kidney care provider, and they are closely following these regulatory changes. Tune in to hear about these important initiatives and how they impact primary care providers. If you have a question, comment, if you want one of the samples we reference, or if you want to be a guest on Working Smarter click here: https://bit.ly/2knXLe5 or visit our website: https://vmdworkingsmarter.com

President Donald Trump on Wednesday ordered a series of changes intended to reshape how tens of millions of Americans receive kidney care and boost the number of kidney transplants — a plan, scooped by POLITICO, that's received bipartisan praise. Dr. Carmen Peralta, a nationally known kidney expert at UCSF and chief medical officer for Cricket Health, joins Dan Diamond to discuss the historic problems with U.S. kidney care and what Trump's plan could accomplish (starts at the 1:35 mark). Then Dan briefly discusses the latest legal threat to Obamacare, following a contentious court hearing this week (starts at the 23:30 mark). MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE The Trump administration moved to shake up how kidney care is delivered in the United States. A history of Medicare's unusual decision to pay for kidney failure treatment, which critics said has warped the market. Federal judges aggressively questioned whether Obamacare can survive in a hearing this week. Law professors Nick Bagley and Richard Primus laid out strategies for Congress to protect the ACA against the lawsuit working its way through the courts.

In this episode of The Pulse Podcast, James discusses the pain points in the existing kidney care model and how Cricket sets out to change this. James is Co-Founder, CFO and also leads HR and Recruiting. Cricket Health has raised $24M+ from Oak, First Round and others to tackle kidney care through tech-enabled healthcare services.

We’re excited to have Doug Mandell as our guest on this episode of Raising Your Antenna. Doug is a Silicon Valley insider, Founder and Managing Partner of the Mandell Law Group, and has been an investor and advisor to countless startups, including Phylagen, Originate and Cricket Health. As it relates to the topic of this podcast, Doug was an early investor in Motiv Power Systems and Nauto, where he also served as General Counsel. Doug has been recognized by Inc. Magazine as one of Silicon Valley's top four attorneys. He was LinkedIn's first outside counsel and then served as its first general counsel. Tune in as we talk about · Doug's professional background · How Nauto is making driving safer and paving the way for autonomy · Advice on starting & exiting companies for founders · His experience as LinkedIn's General Counsel · Using LinkedIn to reference check professional services · Why he became interested with the mobility space · Data, mobility, legality and more! Special thanks to AdLarge for providing their podcast studio.

Arvind Rajan left his managing director post at LinkedIn intent upon two things – taking some time off with his family and finding a new venture that would be hard, important, and transformative to the world. Rajan and his co-founders, James Chaukos and Vince Kim – saw an imbalance in how patients with late-stage kidney disease were being treated. Cricket Health – identified as one of the Fierce 15 Companies in healthcare – is working to balance the scales in favor of patients by building teams of nephrologists, dieticians, even experienced patient mentors to help people before they reach kidney failure.

Have you ever done it? Gone to a work event or cocktail party, make sure the host or your boss sees you're there, put in your time...and then run for the exit? Today, we discuss social anxiety and perfecting your pitch with Silicon Valley executive Arvind Rajan, co-founder and CEO of Cricket Health, a health-care startup in San Francisco.