Health Law Pulse

Behavioral healthcare is one of the most urgent challenges facing our healthcare system, but expanding access involves far more than increasing the number of providers or changing reimbursement models. In this episode of Health Law Pulse, Dr. Corey Shumate, Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner, joins me to discuss the realities of delivering behavioral healthcare to underserved populations...

Healthcare organizations don't struggle because they lack strategy. More often, they struggle because execution is hard. In this episode of Health Law Pulse, Melissa Corneal joins me to discuss what it actually takes to lead transformation across complex healthcare organizations. Drawing on her experience leading enterprise EHR implementations, CRM integrations, AI-enabled workflow optimization, a...

Clinicians are playing an increasingly important role not just in patient care, but in leadership, entrepreneurship, and shaping the future of healthcare delivery. In this episode of Health Law Pulse, Amanda Guarniere, nurse practitioner, healthcare executive, entrepreneur, and Vice President of Enterprise Partnerships at GuardianMD, joins me to discuss the rise of clinician-led healthcare busines...

Most healthcare leaders know how to navigate a crisis. Far fewer know how to recover from one. In this episode of Health Law Pulse, I sit down with Savio P. Clemente, healthcare leadership strategist, TEDx speaker, bestselling author, and creator of the Adaptive Resilience Leadership framework. Drawing on more than 2,000 interviews with healthcare leaders and his own experience surviving cancer tw...

Hospitals are some of the most complex environments in healthcare—where communication, coordination, and decision-making happen constantly and under pressure. In this episode of Health Law Pulse , Dr. David Jackson, a hospitalist in Colorado, joins me to discuss what hospitalists actually do behind the scenes and where healthcare systems most often break down during inpatient care. We explore tran...

Fair market value is one of the most important—and misunderstood—concepts in healthcare transactions. In this episode of Health Law Pulse , Chris David, Managing Partner of HealthValue Group, joins me to discuss how valuation, compensation structures, and transaction design intersect with regulatory risk in healthcare. We explore where organizations most often get into trouble in physician compens...

Access to dental care is often discussed—but less often understood in terms of how it actually works in practice. In this episode of Health Law Pulse , Kendra Flowers—a healthcare leader with deep experience in clinical operations, compliance, and scaling dental care delivery across multi-state and community-based models—joins me to explore what it truly takes to expand access to care. We discuss...

What happens when medicine doesn’t go as planned? Dr. Danny Eiferman joins Health Law Pulse to talk about the realities of practicing medicine that often go unspoken—failure, resilience, leadership, and the importance of psychological safety in healthcare teams. This is a candid conversation about what clinicians experience beyond the textbook—and why it matters for patient care and system-level r...

Adam Cunningham, CEO of Sylk Health, joins Health Law Pulse to break down the complexity of healthcare pricing, why it remains difficult for patients to navigate, and how better information can improve decision-making. For more information about our lightning round sponsor, Western Associates, go to https://forms.gle/xmHGXhRPdomVgZQEA .

In this episode, experienced healthcare lawyers, Jeff Williams and Greg Gambill join me to discuss how healthcare organizations navigate compliance, governance, and real-world risk, and why the most effective organizations treat legal as a strategic partner—not a final step. For more information about our lightning round sponsor, Western Associates, go to https://forms.gle/xmHGXhRPdomVgZQEA .

In this episode of Health Law Pulse , I sit down with Brian Burton , Chief Compliance and Privacy Officer at Healthicity , to discuss how healthcare compliance is evolving in an increasingly data-driven environment. We explore how documentation workflows and data structure can quietly create compliance risk, the role technology and automation play in modern compliance programs, and how organizatio...

In this episode of Health Law Pulse , I sit down with Jay Anstine to explore the politics of healthcare compliance. We discuss why technically sound programs still struggle, how influence and communication shape outcomes, and what it really takes to gain buy-in from leadership. A practical conversation about culture, governance, and the human dynamics behind effective compliance. Jay's website: ht...

Compliance rarely fails because someone intended to do the wrong thing—it fails because systems, incentives, and communication break down. In this episode of Health Law Pulse , we talk with Aubrey Grabow , a healthcare executive and clinician, about what it really takes to lead quality, safety, and compliance inside large, complex healthcare organizations. We discuss scaling care, provider incenti...

If you were redesigning healthcare today, where would you start? Scott Kronlund, MD joins the podcast to unpack the challenges and opportunities facing modern medicine—and what real leadership looks like in a system under strain.

In this episode of Health Law Pulse , I’m joined by Amy Smith, seasoned healthcare compliance executive, to discuss what it really takes to lead quality, safety, and compliance inside complex healthcare organizations. We talk about scaling care, aligning incentives, supporting clinicians, and why compliance works best when it’s embedded into operations—not bolted on after the fact.

In this episode of Health Law Pulse , I’m joined by Michael Rhodes, MD , Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs at the Noorda College of Osteopathic Medicine and a longtime physician leader in quality and credentialing. We talk about building a new medical school, the future of family medicine, and the often-overlooked systems—credentialing, peer review, and quality oversight—that quietly protect pat...