The Improving Patient Access Podcast

February 23, 2021

In this latest episode of MHE Talks: Improving Patient Access podcast, Dennis Bourdette, M.D., professor emeritus of neurology in the School of Medicine at the Oregon Health & Science University, spoke with Peter Wehrwein, senior editor of MHE. Bourdette, a nationally recognized expert on multiple sclerosis, discussed step therapy, tiers, insurance approvals and the need for greater communication between physicians and insurers.

February 12, 2021

Peter Wehrwein, senior editor of Managed Healthcare Executive, speaks with Mohan Giridharadas, the founder and CEO at LeanTaas, a software and machine learning company. The Santa Clara, California, company’s software enables healthcare systems to maximize efficient use of their infusion centers, operating rooms and other facilities. More efficient use translates into improved access to services for patients, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, Giridharadas explains.

January 26, 2021

In this latest episode of the "MHE Talks: Improving Patient Access" series, Senior Editor of MHE, Peter Wehrwein, speaks with Harvey Kaufman, M.D., FCAP, MBA, senior medical director of medical informatics at Quest Diagnostics. The two discussed a recent Quest Diagnostics Health Trends report examining healthcare disparities.

January 12, 2021

MHE's Peter Wehrwein talks with Lloyd Dean, CEO of CommonSpirit Health, and Valerie Montgomery Rice, M.D., FACOG, president of Morehouse School of Medicine, in this new episode of MHE Talks: Improving Patient Access podcast series. The three discuss the lack of Black physicians in the United States. Of the 22,000 medical school applicants in the U.S. every year, only 1,600 are Black. Dean and Rice created a program that seeks to cross barriers of healthcare and racial disparities by offering more opportunities for students of color in medical school programs.

December 22, 2020

MHE Senior Editor talks with John “Jack” S. Linehan, a lawyer at Epstein Becker Green, for this week's episode of MHE Talks: Improving Patient Access series. The two discuss copay accumulators and maximizers, as well as how states have moved to prohibit accumulators and maximizers as the federal government takes a hands-off approach.

December 08, 2020

MHE's Peter Wehrwein speaks with Kevin Lewis, president and CEO of Community Health Options in Maine. The two discussed how Community Health Options is improving patient access through telehealth and more services on Tuning Into The C-Suite's newest series MHE Talks: Improving Patient Access.

November 23, 2020

Leanne Berge, CEO of Community Health Plan of Washington in Seattle, talks to Managed Healthcare Executive about patient access challenges, COVID-19, telehealth, and health care disparities.

November 13, 2020

John Henderson, president and CEO of the Texas Organization of Rural and Community Hospitals, spoke with Senior Editor Peter Wehrwein about COVID-19, telehealth, emergency care, and Medicaid expansion.

November 12, 2020

Starting this week, the editors of Managed Healthcare Executive® are launching a new, twice-a-month podcast about how those barriers can removed, lowered, or worked around so all patients get the healthcare they need.

September 24, 2020

CMS is taking prior authorization for frequent, non-emergency ambulance transportation nationwide and launching a model that pay ambulance services for taking patients to nonhospital facilities.