Primary Care Cures

This episode features the brilliant Katy Talento. Here she discusses her incredibly fascinating and unique career path. She also dives into what it is like being a healthcare policy advisor and share some fascinating stories from her time in that role. Dark money, big healthcare’s influence on Washington, surprise billing and many more topics are covered in this can’t miss episode. Katy Talento, p...

In this episode Ron reflects on what he has learned from the first year of the show. This episode is a can’t miss deep dive featuring musings and thoughts from talking to the real change agents in primary care. He digs into subjects such as direct primary care and what it has done for his organization, the future of benefits, driving down costs, patients as consumers, and much more! He even shares...

In this episode Ron chats with Dutch Rojas. Dutch is a healthcare entrepreneur dedicated to making medical treatments affordable and accessible to all. Currently, he is the Chief Executive Officer of Sano Surgery, a bundled priced network as well as the Founder of Everyone Health, a consumer marketplace to purchase medical treatments. Dutch immigrated to the United States from the Netherlands and...

In this episode Ron chats with Rebecca Love. Rebecca Love, RN, BS, MSN, FIEL is a nurse entrepreneur, inventor, author, TEDx Speaker and first nurse featured on Ted.com. Here they discuss the importance of nurses. Their role can and should be so much more than just a helper to a doctor. They are the end users of many healthcare products and see where they can be improved based on how they are actu...

In this episode Ron chats with Vinay Patel. Vinay is the Founder of Self Insured Pharmacy Networks (SIPN). Here Vinay discusses how he ended up in pharmacy, what a PBM is, how they work, and the pharmaceutical industry. He also dives into the importance of growing from the floor and working their way up to be come a threat to the traditional pharmacy model. The ultimate goal is to drive down the c...

In this episode Ron chats with Dr. Devi Shetty. Devi is the Chairman of Narayana Health and Founder of Health City Cayman Islands. Here he discusses working long hours for a job that you love, technology, volume, and specialization to drive down costs. They also dive into medical tourism as an alternative to having an expensive procedure, with similar outcomes, in the United States. Dr. Shetty is...

In this episode Ron chats with Dr. Chris Crow. Here Chris does a deep dive into value based care and all of its different forms. Ron helps Chris to break it down in a way that healthcare outsidser, who only think of "value based care" as a hot buzz word, can understand. This episode seperates hype from reality and what is truely possible.  Christopher Crow, M.D. CEO of StratiFi Health and Presiden...

In this episode Ron chats with Michael Menerey. Senior Vice President and Benefits Consultant with Alliant Insurance Services and a partner in their Employee Benefits Practice. Here they do a deep dive into the problems with the business of healthcare and on the ground solutions that are actively working to fix them. They touch on a wide variety of topics such as paying primary care docs more, bri...

In this episode Ron chats with Dr. Dana Corriel. Dana is the Founder of SoMeDocs. Here she discusses the power of social media in medicine, her role as a social media influencer in healthcare. She also talks about the positives and negatives of social media, but that overall a positive tool for good. Dana believes that medicine lags behind other industries when it comes to social media, but that i...

In this episode Ron talks to Kirk Umbehr is the Direct Care Transition Expert at Atlas MD. Kirk Specializes in helping doctors transition to an insurance free medical practice called direct primary care. Here they discuss the work of Atlas MD and how Kirk and is brother Josh were pioneers in the Direct Primary Care movement. Kirk explains the benefits of DPC and why he feels the movement should be...

In this episode Ron talks to Dr. Chris Crow. Chris is the CEO of StratiFi Health and President of Catalyst Health Network. Here he discusses what inspired to go into medicine and on his current path. He dives into why independent physicians are important to the ecosystem of healthcare. He also covers burnout, value-based care, chronic care management, and more. [...]

In this episode Ron talks to Dr. Alex Lickerman. Alex is the Founder, CEO, and a Direct Primary Care Physician at ImagineMD. Here he discusses why he left the large group model to be an independent physician and pioneer in direct primary care. He dives into the benefits of the direct primary care model and how it is not just concierge medicine for the rich. DPC providers are much less prone to bur...

In this episode Ron gets the chance to chat again with Direct Primary Care expert, Dr. Paul Thomas of Plum Health DPC. In this episode he talks about how we went directly into primary care out of college and what his work week looks like, including blogging and youtubing the DPC message. He stressed the importance of relationships with small businesses and reaching the public via social media. Pau...

In this episode Ron talked to Dr. Torie Sepah. Torie is the Medical Director of Psychiatry & Behavioral Health at Imperial Health Holdings Medical Group and Healthplan, Physician & Co-Owner at Pasadena Neuropsychiatry Center, and Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of Southern California. Here she discusses a wide variety of topics around physician burnout and wellness. [...]

In this episode Ron interviews Will Scott. Will is passionate about creating environments where people thrive so that they can be the best that they can be. A self-proclaimed Culture Czar, Will has studied, researched and adopted corporate culture strategies in several of his own companies, as well as helped multiple other businesses with their implementations. Each one has its own remarkable stor...

In this episode Ron chats with Uli K. Chettipally, MD., MPH. Uli is an emergency physician, researcher, author, speaker, and an innovator. He is passionate about delivering artificial intelligence-enabled solutions to physicians to improve patient outcomes. His work with CREST Network in developing a clinical decision support platform earned him the Pioneer award for innovation from Kaiser Permane...

In this episode Ron talks to Michael Berg. Michael is the President and co-founder of Ancillary Medical Solutions. He has spent 13 years in the medical sector, 10 in medical ancillaries. He is also an expert in medical ancillaries, publisher of the Comprehensive Medical Ancillary Catalog with 50+ ancillary verticals. [...]

In this episode Ron talks to Ralph Weber Ralph Weber, REBC, CLU, GBA, Founder and President, MediBid Inc. Ralph has been a Healthcare Consultant since 1996 working primarily in the Canadian and US Markets. By 2009 Weber saw healthcare payers reaching the saturation point and started developing cost containment concepts to reduce healthcare spending for employers. Later that hear Weber founded Medi...

In this episode Ron chats with Kristine Ashcraft, B.S., MBA. Kristine is a molecular biologist by training and is CEO and founder of YouScript. She has worked in the precision medicine space since 2000 and was recently named one of the 25 leading voices in precision medicine. Kristine has authored multiple publications on the clinical and economic benefits of pharmacogenomic testing including one...

In this episode on chats with David Chung. David is the USA Head of Carewell Lepu. A patient turned AI technologist. Not a doctor or scientist. Just an average American citizen with an above average appetite on fixing the healthcare system. As a Penn State engineering major, David has a keen sense of science, technology and logic. Call him a mixed bag, an engineer that worked in the industrial, se...

In this episode Ron talks to Dr. Cristin Dickerson. Cristin is the founder of Green Imaging. She initially practiced at Diagnostic Clinic of Houston where she served as two-term president of the 50 physician clinic and was a self funded employer. She is currently practice as a partner in Radiology Group of Houston at Medical Clinic of Houston (Sunset Clinic).   She founded Green Imaging in 2012 to...

In this episode Ron chats with Dr. Arlen Meyers. Arlen is an emeritus professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, a lecturer at the University of Colorado Denver Business School and President and CEO of the Society of Physician Entrepreneurs at www.sopenet.org Here they discuss the world of entrepreneurs in medicine.  [...]

In this episode Ron chats with Mike Bechtol. Mike is the Director of Membership for Redirect Health. He drives initiatives to educate employers and individuals nationwide about Redirect Health’s simple and affordable way of doing healthcare. He also innovates new processes and program benefits to bring more value to members, ensuring they have a positive healthcare experience and that all needs ar...

In this episode Ron chats with Dr. Clint Flanagan. Clint is Board Certified in Family Medicine and has over 14 years experience as an ER physician and maintains certificates in Advanced Cardiac and Advanced Trauma Life Support. He completed medical school at the University of Nebraska Medical Center then went on to residency at St Mary’s Family Medicine Program in Grand Junction, Colorado. He’s a...

In this episode Ron chats with Dr. Josh Umbehr. Josh is the founder of Atlas MD. Atlas MD is a Direct Primary Care Clinic that represents his ideal medical practice where he is able to shrug off the burdens and restrictions of government and insurance regulation so he can focus solely on patients and their needs. [...]