A lot of the work that ultimately affects a patient’s experience happens behind the scenes, but operations can be just as important to a practice’s financial viability as their patient care or marketing. Scott, Michael, and Jared discuss tips for providers to make operational improvements that can have an even greater impact during the pandemic. […]
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The Paradigm Shift of Healthcare podcast is an interview show that discusses how healthcare’s changes impact stakeholders in health systems, insurance companies, technology companies, and the patient population.
Episode 47: Reducing the Real Costs of Care
Healthcare attorney Doug Aldeen offers a highly informed take on whether providers, hospitals, and insurance companies have a responsibility to keep costs down for patients. In this episode, you’ll learn the “state of the state” of self-funded contracting, why it’s important, how payment models need to change, and the rise of price gouging during the […]
Episode 46: Patients Deserve to Know Prices
Patients deserve to know real prices and have a trusted, competitive marketplace for healthcare. Benefits advisor Carl Schuessler, Jr. describes how insurer-built plans have ceased to meet the needs of employers and employees, and how employer-built plans save costs for everyone by cutting out the middlemen. In this episode, you’ll learn what a fair cost […]
Episode 45: New Battlegrounds, New Battle Plans
Well-known marketing consultant John Marzano describes the seismic shifts happening at the intersection of primary care, retail health, and COVID-19. In this episode, you’ll learn how consumers are going to be fickle when choosing primary care services, how those choices trickle down to specialty care in new ways, and how the need to ramp up […]
Episode 44: Navigating Past New Mountains in the Patient Journey
Even before the pandemic, mountains were standing in the way of patients getting the care they were seeking. On this episode, Jessica Walker, founder and CEO of Care Sherpa, dives deep into firsthand insights her team has discovered that are helping providers overcome operational errors. Learn how consumers are feeling now about procedures that have […]
Episode 43: Cutting Out the Middlemen
Anybody coming to the healthcare planning table with a solution that can cut out the middlemen while providing quality care has the opportunity to both be very profitable and good for the patient, according to Dr. Kendrick Johnson, founder and medical director of Ark Family Health, the first Direct Primary Care clinic in Phoenix, AZ. […]
Episode 42: Patient Engagement As Restrictions Lift
Michael, Scott, and Jared dive deep into the ways patients are starting to engage online as states begin to lift restrictions on elective procedures. They discuss digital marketing trends they’re seeing from practices as they ramp campaigns back up, projections about surgical volumes, and what telemedicine needs to do to continue to provide a meaningful […]