On Episode 2 of Season 4, Vanessa Moldovan interviewed me on her podcast, For the Love Of Revenue Cycle, which I am excited to share. Since starting the Healthcare Reimagined podcast, I founded a healthcare company, Covered Health, and Vanessa interviewed me about what we're doing and why we're doing it. At Covered, we are automating the most challenging and time consuming elements of appealing denied medical claims for providers. By streamlining access to diverse databases and inputs, Covered uses technology to helps RCM specialists identify denial root causes, and appeal them. Vanessa and ..read more

On Episode 1 of Season 4 of the Healthcare Reimagined podcast, I spoke with Manav Sevak. Manav is the founder and CEO of Memora Health, which helps healthcare organizations digitize and automate care journeys, and make complex care delivery simple for patients and clinicians to navigate.  Manav's journey to building Memora health began with a personal story - a close friend with a chronic diagnosis, who despite being young and tech savvy, found it difficult to navigate his care.  There are three major challenges that Memora addresses: Digitizing clinical workflows, saving providers t ..read more

On Episode 10 of Season 3 , I spoke with my grandmother, Sydell Aaron. Ultimately, we all become consumers of Healthcare, like it or not. On Healthcare Reimagined, I typically showcase healthcare innovation - the truth is that innovations are only interesting in so far as they are making life  better for patients. Last week I spoke with my grandmother about her experience as a consumer of U.S. healthcare over the past 9 decades.  Sydell, or Meema as I call her, was born in 1932. In 1929, 3 years before she was born, the first polio patient was saved.  In the 1940’s when Meema w ..read more

On Episode 9 , I spoke with Shiv Rao. Dr. Rao is the founder and CEO of Abridge, which uses ambient AI to summarize conversations into clinical documentation. He is also a practicing cardiologist, and previously led the provider-facing investment portfolio for UPMC. “What did the doctor say?" is inevitably the first question we ask a loved one who has just been to see a clinician. But how often do we get a clear answer ? How many of our loved ones are actually knowledgeable enough to grasp the details of their condition/diagnosis/care plan? Research out of Dartmouth suggests that people forge ..read more

Dylan Beynon is the founder and CEO of Mindbloom, an at-home psychedelic therapy startup. Dylan has been named a top 25 consumer healthtech executive and one of the 100 most influential people in psychedelics. Mindbloom has facilitated 100,000+ psychedelic therapy sessions since launching in 2019, and is now the largest provider of ketamine therapy in the U.S. Increasing access to Ketamine therapy was one of Dylan's main motivators for starting Mindloom. His family was among the 70% of those living paycheck to paycheck in America, for whom standard treatment would have been unaffordable. Mindb ..read more

Dr. Groves is the Chief Medical officer of Banner Aetna, an independently licensed insurance company with a 50/50 ownership split between Banner and Aetna. "We have taken two elite athletes, put them together and said 'who is best at what, and let's leverage their respective strengths going forward.'" Banner Aetna has  tried to be strategic about what services that are currently handled by the care delivery system or insurer should reside with the other.  By pushing care management (among other things) to the delivery system, they have been able to eliminate confusion for patients an ..read more

On episode 6 of season 3, I continued my conversation with Dr. Stephen Klasko, who was the president of Thomas Jefferson University and CEO of Jefferson Health from 2013-2021. Under his leadership, Jefferson expanded from 3 hospitals to 18, and saw its revenue grow from $1.8 to $9 billion. Dr. Klasko was #2 on Modern Healthcare’s “100 Most Influential Individuals”. He is also the co-author of 2020’s UnHealthcare: A Manifesto for Health Assurance with Silicon Valley investor Hemant Taneja, and is currently an executive in residence at General Catalyst.  In the second half of this two ..read more

On episode 5 of season 3, the first of this two-part episode, I spoke with Dr. Stephen Klasko about his unlikely journey from OBGYN to the president of Thomas Jefferson University and CEO of Jefferson Health from 2013-2021. Under his leadership, Jefferson expanded from 3 hospitals to 18, and saw its revenue grow from $1.8 to $9 billion. Dr. Klasko was #2 on Modern Healthcare’s “100 Most Influential Individuals”. He is also the co-author of 2020’s UnHealthcare: A Manifesto for Health Assurance with Silicon Valley investor Hemant Taneja, and is currently an executive in residence at General ..read more

Laura Purdy was an active-duty Physician prior to entering the civilian sector. She joined the military because of her sense of patriotism, and because she wanted to focus on patient-care. When she joined in 2005, the Army allowed physicians to just be physicians, and focus on their medical skills before all else. As that culture shifted, Laura decided to leave when her contract ended and explore new opportunities.  Towards the end of her time in the service, Laura began exploring the telemedicine space, and has worked with/for dozens of companies across the industry. We discussed Laura’s ..read more

In 2019, we lost more than 14,000 Americans to firearm homicide and more than 36,000 to car accidents. As a point of comparison, every year, diet contributes to approximately 678,000 deaths in the U.S., due to nutrition- and obesity-related diseases, such as heart disease, cancer, and type 2 diabetes. In the last 30 years, obesity rates have doubled in adults, tripled in children, and quadrupled in adolescents. While of course some of these conditions have genetic components, there is no question that the food we eat (and are marketed) has played a role.  I spoke with Josh Hix, CEO and fo ..read more