Podcasts

June 16, 2021

Briana Contreras, associate editor of Managed Healthcare Executive, spoke with Mark Poling, chief product officer of Zipari, a health insurance tech organization, about how a direct-to-consumer model can simplify the enrollment process. He also shared the benefits the model has to health insurance systems’ operations.

June 09, 2021

In this week's episode Senior Editor Peter Wehrwein chats with Founder and Executive Chairwoman of Caravan Health Lynn Barr. The two discussed the relationship of payers and ACOs and the approach toward the direct contracting model.

June 02, 2021

In this week’s episode of Tuning In to the C-Suite podcast, MHE Associate Editor Briana Contreras spoke with Ash Shehata, KPMG’s national sector leader for healthcare & life sciences. The two chatted about a recent paper by KPMG titled “From payor to healthcare partner,” which highlights how the pandemic drove changes for plans to adopt a patient-centric model and it gives a look into the six healthcare trends to watch for in 2021.

May 26, 2021

Managed Healthcare Executive's Senior Editor, Peter Wehrwein, and Associate Editor, Briana Contreras, spoke with MHE Editorial Advisory Board Member Lili Brillstein for a new episode of the "Meet the Board" series on "Tuning In to the C-Suite" podcast. Lili is CEO of BCollaborative, which works with stakeholders across the healthcare continuum to successfully make the move from fee for service to value-based healthcare. In this episode we get to learn a bit more about Lili's career and hear her thoughts on the advancements of episodes of care, as well as the challenges of transitioning from fee-for-service to value-based care during COVID-19.

May 21, 2021

Briana Contreras, associate editor of Managed Healthcare Executive, speaks with Chris Evanguelidi, head of healthcare at Redpoint Global, for this week's episode of "Tuning In to the C-Suite" podcast. In this conversation, the two discussed the best practices for closing the healthcare experience gap and devising an effective patient engagement strategy through a more patient-centric health system.

May 05, 2021

Briana Contreras, associate editor of Managed Healthcare, speaks with Linda Matthews, president of BioCare, a leading specialty distributor of life-saving therapies, in this week's episode of Tuning In to the C-Suite podcast. The two discussed the evolution of these therapies over the last decade and most importantly how to expand and diversify a healthcare business.

April 28, 2021

In this latest episode of Tuning In to the C-Suite’s Meet the Board podcast series, Managed Healthcare Executive's Senior Editor Peter Wehrwein and Associate Editor Briana Contreras spoke with MHE Editorial Advisory Board member, Doug Chaet. Chaet is president of Value Evolutions and chairman of the American Association of Integrated Healthcare Delivery Systems. In this conversation, the editors were able to learn more about the loyal board member and his background in healthcare toward his managed care career and were able to hear his thoughts on particular topics such as value-based care, ACOs and more.

April 21, 2021

In this week's episode of "Tuning In to the C-Suite" podcast, Senior Editor Peter Wehrwein spoke with Debra Cooper, RN, MSN, MBA/HCM, a senior risk specialist at Coverys, a medical malpractice insurance company headquartered in Boston. Wehrwein and Cooper discussed the role the company has played in advising providers during the COVID-19 pandemic, risk mitigation, and the role they can now play in overcoming vaccine hesitancy.

April 14, 2021

In this week’s episode of Tuning In to the C-Suite podcast Briana Contreras, associate editor of Managed Healthcare Executive, spoke with David Lareau, CEO of Medicomp Systems about four areas that must be addressed to improve the usability of health IT, address interoperability issues, and minimize clinician burden.

April 07, 2021

Today's episode of Tuning In to the C-Suite shares a conversation between Associate Editor of MHE, Briana Contreras, and CEO of Ob Hospitalist Group, Lenny Castiglione. The two talked about how and why hospitals and health systems are increasingly working with third party providers for obstetrics, as well as anesthesiology, nursing, and others to reduce costs and improve care for patients.