Healthcare Americana

Clif Knight, Assistant Dean of Clinical Affairs and Associate Professor of Family Medicine at Marian University College of Osteopathic Medicine joins Chris Habig to discuss Marian University's unique offerings and location, which sets it apart from other medical schools. He explained that Marian University is focused on giving students broad exposure to different situations, people, lifestyles, an...

Kyle Kiser is the CEO of Arrive Health, a virtual pharmacy assistant. This tool is used as a care team tool to automate outreach to patients, drive adherence, and improve quality and readmissions. Kyle's goal is to make connections beyond just pharmacy, particularly in the realm of specialty medications, and to make it easier for patients and providers to access the tool. The core mission remains...

In this episode, Chris speaks with Jonathan Wolfson, the Chief Legal Officer, and Policy Director for the Cicero Institute, a think tank that focuses on state-level policy. Wolfson speaks on taking price transparency to the next level and discusses how so many people look to the government to fix the numerous and relatively unknown problems of American healthcare. Habig continues that only when th...

Chris welcomes Dr. Candace Walker to his podcast, Healthcare Americana. Dr. Walker is a practicing direct primary care physician and owner of Flowing Life Direct Health in Atlanta, Georgia. She has been utilizing a business model to provide healthcare to her community. Christopher asked how the practice was going, to which Dr. Walker replied that it was going great. She is living her dream and is...

Dr. Eddie Williams is the founder of Foundation Direct Primary Care in the Gulf Shores of Alabama. Dr. Williams is a healthcare practitioner who has found success in building a loyal patient base through genuine interest in his patients while starting a men’s-focused dpc clinic.  Chris and Eddie discuss how to grow a practice, discussing that the best way to increase patient numbers is to foc...

Benjamin Lightburn, CEO and Co-Founder of Filament Health, the world’s leading psychedelics company, speaks with Chris about psilocybin, the active ingredient in some mushrooms that companies like Filament, are finding to have powerful medicinal benefits. From growing, processing, and legalities,  Chris and Benjamin dive deep and unveil the stigma that surrounds psychedelics and discuss the c...

America’s first FreedomDoc practice with Dr. Ana Boyer speaks on whole health, mental health, quality of care, balance, and quality of life all stemming from being in Direct Primary Care. Hear her stories on how the quality of life for her patients and for her has dramatically changed for the better. Obtain the freedom to practice medicine the way you want without all the administrative responsibi...

Ryan Campbell challenges the traditional practice model, embarking on a journey to teach people how to be healthy and innovate the healthcare industry with a Direct Primary Care practice in the naturopathic field, challenging the long-entrenched insurance model. How did a mechanical engineer end up in medical school? What is the difference between traditional primary care practices and Direct Prim...

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Author of ExPat Health Guide, Hunter Schultz speaks with Chris Habig on the pros of DPC and the cons of the status quo, discussing dpc outreach, getting the word out to the masses, and even how DPC brings polarizing political spectrums together. Follow Healthcare Americana: Twitter Instagram LinkedIn More on Freedom Healthworks More on Hunter Schultz Subscribe at  https://healthcareamericana....

How do you educate about Direct Primary Care? How do you deal with certain types of pushback? As the Chief Growth Officer of Frontier Direct Care, Joe Wilson sits down with Chris to discuss growth strategies in the DPC communities. They pick apart what consists of value-based care and customer experience, and deliberate using these as tools to educate and grow the community.  Follow Healthcar...

Elise Amez-Droz is the Program Manager at the Open Health Project from the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Elise brings perspective on a variety of International healthcare systems compared to US systems in light of insurance, government regulations, and private markets. How can we foster ideas to be a part of the solution surrounding healthcare? Join Chris and Elise as they discuss! F...

Owner of Crossroads Integrative Medicine, Dr. Ryan Heer discusses with Chris how he got started as a Naturopath in Direct Primary Care. Discover how Ryan puts the patient experience first and how connecting the patients’ medical providers to communicate and work together, increases the quality of care to the patient. Follow Healthcare Americana: Twitter Instagram LinkedIn More on Freedom Healthwor...

Dr. Jim McDonald of Clarity Direct Primary Care tips the scale from traditional health care to Direct Primary Care. He discusses how switching to a DPC practice has changed his work-life balance, enabling quality work and life. Jim discusses with Chris how this has allowed him to cultivate better relationships not only with his patients but family as well. When in the corporate health system, Dr....

Celeste Brain Health’s Sumul Modi brings a neurologist's perspective as well as an international point of view on medical care with insurance versus a Direct Primary Care model. Sumul saw a problem with poor patient experiences with month-long wait times seeking care, to patients getting lost in a corporate system. Dr. Sumul and Chris explore a few solutions from healthy competition in open market...

Physician and Owner, Holly Smith of Fiat Family Medicine tells her story of how she started her own Direct Primary Care practice and why having the freedom of practicing in DPC is just as important as incorporating faith into her practice. Holly and Chris describe the simplicity of communication and feedback and describe the relief people have when discovering a different way to be a part of healt...

Chief Medical Officer Dr. Liz Kwo brings deep expertise and innovation leadership in data science, automation, and artificial intelligence for digital health. Chris and Dr. Kwo look at the balance between direct patient care and technology, along with barriers and challenges having the ability for patients to gain access to their own medical records and consumer metrics. Dr. Kwo also discusses Val...

Doctors want to do the right thing for the patient. But sometimes it can be tangled with legislation, insurance, and even media. MVP Health Care’s Chief Medical Officer Dr. Carl Cameron speaks on the challenge of trust between patients, providers, and insurance companies and for all parties to come together to have the patients’ interest in the forefront, meeting unmet needs for customers, and imp...

CEO & Co-Founder Chris Blackley breaks down the relationships between employers, prescription markets, and pharmacies. From prescribers to providers,  Chris and Chris walk through how prescription benefit managers are driving up prices of medication for patients,  how consumers can find the most affordable prescription drugs, and how transparency can shift the power to the consumer w...

Katie McGovern and Elizabeth Bowen are practitioners and owners of Your Corner Pediatrics. They started their own Direct Primary Care pediatric office with help from Freedom Healthworks and now share their first hand experience on how beneficial DPC is for patients, for them as providers, and behind the scenes running their office. Chris, Katie, and Elizabeth highlight how this model enables quali...

CEO & Founder Dr. Jeffrey Gold of Gold Direct Care discusses the Direct Primary Care industry. Being a proven business model, why is the DPC not gaining as much traction as it deserves? How do we stop putting band aids to fix the current status quo and mitigate real change for the DPC industry? Dr. Jeffrey Gold is one of many showing a prime example of how Direct Primary Care benefits patients...

From the Texas Public Policy Foundation and General Surgeon, John O’Shea speaks on accountability and regulation with solutions on creating better quality and value in healthcare using policy. Making it a free marketplace with room for consumers to make a choice and increasing access to direct primary care by defining what access is to introduce more consumer choice leading to greater competition...

Jonah Salita Co-Founder of Diall, a health app dedicated to fostering a home for mental health and community, speaks on where mental health starts, how to engage with people who tend not to talk about mental health issues, and provides solutions for mental support wherever they are.  Follow Healthcare Americana: Twitter Instagram LinkedIn More on Freedom Healthworks More on Diall Subscribe at...

Founder and Attorney at Tycko & Zavareei, Jonathan Tycko works on fraud cases from government contracting, international trade, to the healthcare industry. He speaks on this week’s episode about the fraud cases within healthcare and how healthcare workers, clinics, and patients can be empowered by this information and knowledge.  Follow Healthcare Americana: Twitter Instagram LinkedIn Mor...

Hatem Zeine Founder, President and CTO of Ossia, a company that creates wireless, over the air power delivery discusses the benefits that this tech has from in-home patients, to medical facilities.  Follow Healthcare Americana: Twitter Instagram LinkedIn More on Freedom Healthworks More on Ossia Subscribe at  https://healthcareamericana.com/episodes/