Stacey Richter
Relentless Health Value
Welcome to Relentless Health Value, the podcast for those working in the belly of the beast to fix our fundamentally broken healthcare system. If you are a self-insured employer, plan sponsor, benefits consultant, clinician, a C-suite executive or anyone in the business of healthcare tired of the "transformational theater" and marketing fluff, you have found your tribe. The U.S. healthcare system isn't a rational market; it's a game of Pachinko where perverse incentives reign, and as we always say, where there's mystery, there's margin. Hosted by Stacey Richter, we relentlessly hunt down the a...
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Jul 8, 2026
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Inbetweenisode 10: Health Insurance is not Healthcare. Healthcare is not Health. 24.11.2016 20:04
Stacey is co-president of Aventria Health Group, a marketing agency specializing in helping pharmaceutical, device and pharmacy clients gain access to patients by creating and leveraging partnerships with other health care organizations. For twenty years, Stacey has innovated better-coordinated health solutions benefiting all stakeholders, and most of all the patient. 00:00 David Goldhill "Catastr...
Episode 115: Marketing Advice for Providers with Lonnie Hirsch from Hirsch Healthcare Consulting 17.11.2016 27:43
Lonnie Hirsch enjoys a reputation as one of the premier marketing consultants and strategists for helping healthcare provider organizations, including medical practices and hospitals across the U.S. and in other countries achieve profitable growth. Over a career spanning 30 years, Lonnie has worked with literally thousands of medical practices as well as hospitals , health systems, medical dev...
Episode 114: Improving Patient Experience is Heavy Lifting with Paul Rosen, MD, MPM, and MMM, of Nemours Children's Hospital 10.11.2016 30:28
Paul Rosen, MD, MPH, MMM http://www.paulrosenmd.com/ , was named 'One of the First 100 Innovators' by the U.S Federal Government Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality for his work on patient-physician communication. He blogs for NEJM Catalyst, http://catalyst.nejm.org/posts?q=rosen Healthcare Success, the Healthcare Guys and Health Tap. He co-hosts Pediatric Chat, http://pediatricchat.or...
Episode 113: Not Patient Engagement with Jan Oldenburg 03.11.2016 29:02
Jan Oldenburg, FHIMSS , is passionate about using digital tools to build a healthcare system where patients and caregivers participate as partners. She currently advises and mentors startups and consults with organizations who want to understand the evolving digital health landscape as the Principal in Participatory Health Consulting. Ms. Oldenburg has broad experience within all aspects of the he...
Episode 112: Mentor the Inventor with Michael Sinsheimer from Medtech Catalyst 27.10.2016 23:08
Mr. Sinsheimer is the founder of Medtech Catalyst, which has founded or co-founded several medical device companies. Mike is the co-founder of the Charleston Medical Device Initiative a joint venture between MedTech Catalyst and the Medical University of South Carolina Foundation for Research Development. He is co-founder and Chairman of Mobius Imaging, LLC as well as co-founder and CEO of LifeHea...
Episode 111: Costly Breakthroughs in Oncology and How Payers Will Adapt with David Guy from Aventria Health Group 20.10.2016 20:24
Currently SVP of Oncology and Specialty Market Programs at Aventria Health Group. Formerly was CCO at Favrille, VP Strategic Marketing at Schering AG and Head of Oncology Marketing at Genentech; was instrumental in the commercialization of Taxotere, Fludara, Herceptin, and Rituxan 00:00 New Oncology Breakthroughs. 02:35 Extending survival time to stabilizing curves that could extend to future cu...
Episode 110: When Providers Become Providers of Population Health with Rich Lipeles from The Heritage Group 13.10.2016 26:43
Richard Lipeles joined PacifiCare in July 1979, and in 1987 he became President of PacifiCare of California. In 1993 he was promoted to Executive Vice President of PacifiCare Health Systems. As Executive Vice President of PacifiCare Health Systems, Lipeles oversaw the corporation's managed health care division, which included health plans in California, Florida, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, and Washin...
Episode 109: The financial underbelly of employer-sponsored health insurance with Vincent Esposito from Endeavor Plus 06.10.2016 28:04
Vincent Esposito, COO Vincent ('Vinny') Esposito joined Endeavor Plus, Inc. as Chief Operating Officer in 2014 after a decade of diversified experience working as a financial investment analyst. Prior to joining Endeavor Plus, Vinny was a Senior Analyst with Wexford Capital of Greenwich, CT. The firm managed $6 billion in assets, invested globally and approached the market through a thematic lens....
Episode 108: Making the Most of Emergency Department Visits with Chris Klomp from Collective Medical Technologies 29.09.2016 30:33
Chris is the CEO of Collective Medical Technologies, a Salt Lake City-based health technology company which helps providers and payers to take better care of their patients and members using real-time risk identification, stakeholder notifications, and collaborative care planning tools. CMT is obsessively focused on eliminating avoidable patient risk by designing simple yet highly-effective techno...
Episode 107: Dave Chase and Healthcare's Big Heist 22.09.2016 28:55
Here's a description of the film: The Big Heist is a satirical, follow-the-money film on the destruction created by healthcare's status quo…. And the redemption that's coming. It will create hope and catalyze action to thwart the greatest immediate and future threat to our country. We've gone to war for less than what the healthcare status quo has done and is still doing to our country. The Big He...
Episode 106: MACRA and Other Ways to Make Money with Eric Levin from McKesson Business Performance Services 15.09.2016 28:54
Eric Levin is a Strategic Services Director for McKesson's Business Performance Services division, which provides value-based care solutions to both hospitals and physician groups. In this role, Eric focuses on comprehensive and strategic healthcare sales and business development. Eric has over 15 years of healthcare experience specializing in value-based reimbursement, technology and primary care...
Episode 105: Finding the Pharmacy Fit with Todd Eury from the Pharmacy Podcast 08.09.2016 26:02
In a career, being new to any industry especially healthcare isn't easy. In June of 2004 Todd Eury left an eight year career in the telecommunications industry and entered the pharmacy technology sector as SoftWriter's (FrameworkLTC pharmacy software for institutional pharmacies) first business development oriented employee. "It was a gamble for me", Eury recounts, "being part of a national fortun...
Inbetweenisode 9: Finding The Best Problem 01.09.2016 16:54
Stacey is co-president of Aventria Health Group, a marketing agency specializing in helping pharmaceutical, device and pharmacy clients gain access to patients by creating and leveraging partnerships with other health care organizations. For twenty years, Stacey has innovated better-coordinated health solutions benefiting all stakeholders, and most of all the patient. 00:00 What makes a problem...
Episode 104: The Upside and Barriers to Getting Pharmacists in the Loop with Jerry Fahrni, Pharmacy Informatics Consultant 25.08.2016 27:23
Dr. Fahrni has been a licensed pharmacist in California since obtaining his Pharm. D. degree from the University of California, San Francisco School of Pharmacy in 1997. Jerry has a diverse background and has served in a variety of pharmacy roles during that time, including more than a decade of experience as a clinical pharmacist in various acute care settings, as well as spending time as a pharm...
Episode 103: Engaging Employees with Jonathan Ozeran from Zest Health 18.08.2016 28:51
Jonathan is a product designer, software engineer, team builder and mobile technology evangelist who enjoys contributing to the growth of the Chicago startup community. His consumer-facing mobile apps have reached hundreds of thousands of users and have been featured by Apple in their App Store as well as on devices in their retail stores. His enterprise-facing web platforms and mobile apps have m...
Episode 102: What Does It Mean To Disrupt Healthcare with Anand Iyer from WellDoc 11.08.2016 29:02
Anand is a respected global digital health leader—most known for his insights on and experience with technology, strategy and regulatory policy. Anand has been instrumental in WellDoc's success and the development of BlueStar ® , the first FDA-cleared mobile prescription therapy for adults with type 2 diabetes. Since joining WellDoc in 2008, he has held core leadership positions that included Chie...
Episode 101: What It Takes To Be A Physician Entrepreneur with Arlen Meyers, MD, MBA - President and CEO of Society of Physician Entrepreneurs 04.08.2016 28:06
Dr. Arlen Meyers is a professor emeritus of otolaryngology, dentistry, and engineering at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and the Colorado School of Public Health and President and CEO of the Society of Physician Entrepreneurs at www.sopenet.org . He has created several medical device companies. His primary research centers around biomedical and health innovation and entrepreneursh...
Episode 100: An Insider's Look at MTM with Blair Thielemier from Pharmapreneur Academy and Co-Host of Pharmacy Podcast 28.07.2016 30:54
Blair Green Thielemier, PharmD is an independent consultant pharmacist living in Arkansas with her husband and daughter. She is the founder of Pharmapreneur Academy, an online teaching platform where she guides pharmacist-entrepreneurs through the process and barriers of building a pharmacy consulting business. She is the author of How to Build a Pharmacy Consulting Business, a contributing author...
Episode 99: Readmissions and Mental Health with Lauren Szewcyk from Mindoula 21.07.2016 27:18
As Vice President of Case Management & Family Services, Lauren manages the virtual and in-person case management team at Mindoula Health ( www.mindoula.com ), a technology-enabled case management company at the forefront of the transformation of behavioral healthcare. The first employee hired by Mindoula's Founder & CEO, Steve Sidel, Lauren ensures that the Mindoula case management team delivers...
Episode 98: The Louisiana Health Care Quality Forum Tackles Drug-Seeking Behavior with Cindy Munn 14.07.2016 27:02
Cindy Munn has 25+ years of experience in health care leadership and operations management. As CEO of the Louisiana Health Care Quality Forum, Munn oversees development of the organization's strategic roadmap supporting an integrated approach to transforming health care. She has oversight responsibility for initiatives including health information technology, practice transformation assistance and...
Episode 97: Managing Populations for Beginners and Experts with Renee Petrie from DatStat 07.07.2016 29:22
Renee helps customers apply DatStat technology solutions across health research and patient-centered population health management. Before joining DatStat, she spent 17 years in working at nationally recognized academic research centers. While at University of Washington's Social Development Research Group (SDRG), she set the standard for maximizing engagement and retention in landmark longitudina...
Inbetweenisode 8: 9 Tips To Be A Better Podcast Guest 30.06.2016 29:28
Stacey is co-president of Aventria Health Group, a marketing agency specializing in helping pharmaceutical, device and pharmacy clients gain access to patients by creating and leveraging partnerships with other health care organizations. For twenty years, Stacey has innovated better-coordinated health solutions benefiting all stakeholders, and most of all the patient. 02:15 Tip #1: Think ahead o...
Episode 96: Leveling Up Hospital Rounding with Dr. Greg Sanders from HybridChart 23.06.2016 27:17
Dr. Sanders received his undergraduate degree and his M.D. from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. After completing his internship and residency at Boston University, he completed a Fellowship in Cardiology at Harvard University. Dr. Sanders is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease, Echocardiography and Nuclear Cardiology. He is a designated Fellow of the American Colleg...
Episode 95: The Missing Link to Interoperability, A Conversation with Jason Rose About the Inovalon and Quest Joint Venture, Data Diagnostics 16.06.2016 30:04
Jason Rose is Chief Strategic Development Officer for Inovalon , a leading technology company providing advanced, cloud-based analytics and data-driven intervention platforms to the healthcare industry. Since joining the company in 2008, he has led a wide range of health-focused initiatives aimed at driving improvements in quality and financial outcomes through advanced data-analytics and technol...
Episode 94: Bridging The Canyon Between Clinical Decision Making And EHR Systems with Noah Weiner, CEO of Avhana 09.06.2016 32:08
Noah Weiner is the CEO/Cofounder of Avhana Health. Started because the lack of clinical decision support (CDS) functionality that exist in modern electronic health records. Avhana Health has developed a cloud based CDS platform that helps care providers do the right thing to improve quality and increase reimbursements. Before founding Avhana Health, Noah researched patient safety at the Armstrong...
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