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Jeremy Friese spent a decade as a physician at Mayo Clinic navigating prior auth from the provider side. Now he runs Humata Health, which helps large health systems submit better prior auths to every plan in the country.
Kevin and Martin start with a discussion about a crowded week in healthcare AI funding. Prosper AI and Assort Health’s fundraising announcements were released on back-to-back days, with nearly identical customer quotes c
JD Friedland is the executive director for ventures at Cleveland Clinic, where he evaluates and deploys emerging health technology across one of the country's largest and most research-intensive health systems. He walks
Kevin and Martin by discussing the OhioHealth DOJ settlement and what banning anti-tiering, anti-steering clauses in hospital contracts could mean for employer plan design, narrow networks, and upstart insurance models.
Hashem Zikry is a practicing emergency physician at UCLA, a researcher focused on unnecessary ED utilization, and the medical director for clinical research and policy at Counsel Health — which, this week, began integrat
Thirty-five years into Medicare Advantage, John Kao sees the V28 correction as a pricing reset, not a structural rupture. Plans that invested in clinical care delivery are emerging from it better positioned than those th
Kevin and Martin chat about Matt Holt's return with a reported $12 billion bid for Ensemble Healthcare Partners. They unpack what it means that Thoreau, Holt’s AI-forward play, is interested in a business whose CEO expli
Seth Cohen runs Cedar, which sits inside the bill-pay workflow for health systems across the country, meaning he sees the patient collections reality that most hospitals are still processing. Most providers still sort pa
Ezekiel Emanuel helped write the ACA, and now he's thinking about what comes next. To those saying America needs to spend more on healthcare, he points to countries like Germany, Switzerland, Norway—all have universal co
Kevin and Martin open with an unusual question: how much fraud should we actually tolerate in healthcare? News from Minnesota prompted the question, where the state just disenrolled 3,400 Medicaid providers, most not for
Prior to the wave of GLP-1s, Amit Shah has spent a decade working on reversing metabolic disease through nutrition. As a leader at Virta Health, he's experienced the impact that changing what people eat can have on type
Michelle Turner spent years as a foster parent watching the healthcare system fail the kids in her home because the existing system wasn't built for them. She founded Here Now Health to fix that, creating a virtual menta
News & Analysis from Health Tech Nerds Kevin and Martin open with Elevance's "thumb drive gate" CMS update, a $935 million accrual, and questions about what they ultimately owed. They debate how many $100 billion healthc
Will Johnson, CEO and Co-Founder of Gyde, joins on the day Gyde announces the acquisition of We Know Medicare to discuss the MA brokerage market and where it's headed. Will walks through Gyde's acquisition model: buying
Loren Adler, Fellow and Associate Director at the Brookings Institution, joins to assess the No Surprises Act four years in after recent coverage in NYT sparked discussion. The good news: patients have largely been remov
News & Analysis from Health Tech Nerds Mass General Brigham faced pushback from two directions in two weeks — the state flagging the MinuteClinic partnership for increasing costs, and its own primary care docs criticizin
Otto Sipe, founder and CEO of Photon Health, joins following the company’s $16M Series A to discuss why prescribing infrastructure remains surprisingly antiquated, and why Photon believes the real opportunity is not tran
Sean Doolan and Emre Karatas from Virtue VC join to discuss their thesis that a new actuarial infrastructure layer is emerging in healthcare and why they're investing behind it. The starting point is a simple observation
Patrick Foley, CEO of Belong Health, joins to discuss the growing opportunity in Medicare Advantage special needs plans and how Belong is helping community health plans compete in a market increasingly dominated by natio
Dan Ferris, Chief Growth Officer at LifeStance Health, joins following the company's Q1 earnings to discuss how the largest outpatient mental health provider in the country is thinking about growth, operations, and the r
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