The Road to Care

Behind every prior authorization, coverage decision, and patient estimate is a much bigger question: how do we ensure patients can actually access the care they need? In this episode of The Road to Care, Kip Theno sits down with Sara Julson, RHIT, Revenue Cycle Manager, to discuss the growing financial challenges facing specialty care. Drawing on more than 20 years of experience in revenue cycle m...

What does “value” really mean in healthcare, and who gets to define it? In this special roundtable episode of The Road to Care, SamaCare CEO Syam Palakurthy joins our host Kip Theno and three global leaders in pricing, market access, and health economics: Amitabh Singh, PhD – Former Worldwide Head & VP of HEOR, Novartis Oncology Indranil Bagchi, PhD – Global Head of Pricing & Market Access, GSK Cr...

On this episode of The Road to Care, we’re joined by Luba Sobolevsky, PharmD, IgCP®, President & CEO of the Immunoglobulin National Society (IgNS), and Amy E. Clarke, DNP, RN, IgCN®, Chief Clinical Officer at IgNS, two nationally recognized leaders advancing standards, education, certification, and patient advocacy in immunoglobulin (IG) therapy and biologics. Dr. Sobolevsky and Dr. Clarke walk th...

On this episode of The Road to Care, we sit down with Jim Breidenstein, CEO of Adhere+, a remote therapeutic monitoring platform reshaping how patients and care teams stay connected. Jim is a seasoned healthcare leader whose career spans game-changing innovations — from launching the first minimally invasive spinal surgery device at Kyphon, to pioneering prescription digital therapeutics at Pear,...

On this episode of The Road to Care, we’re joined by Jim Alecxih, CEO of DH Medical and a veteran leader in medical technology innovation. With more than 30 years in the industry, Jim has helped bring groundbreaking technologies to market, including the Da Vinci Robotic Surgical System during his tenure at Intuitive Surgical. He now leads DH Medical, a company pioneering AI-driven image enhancemen...

On this episode of The Road to Care we’re joined by NHL Hall of Famer Jeremy Roenick to discuss his journey from hockey to healthcare. Our host, Kip Theno, and Jeremy discuss MediChainX, Roenick’s latest power move to forecheck healthcare data breaches and empower patients to take control of their own health data. As a blockchain solution, MediChainX.io is the future of secure, reliable and effici...

On this episode of The Road to Care we’re joined by Dr. Krishnan Chakravarthy, MD PhD, scientist, interventional pain and spine physician, and CEO of NXTSTIM. Dr. Chakravarthy is in the top 0.1% of global scholars writing about innovations in nanomedicine, neuromodulation, accessible delivery models for care over the past 10 years and has won numerous national and international awards for his clin...

On this episode of The Road to Care, we’re joined by leaders in rheumatology practice administration, Nancy Ellis, practice administrator at Piedmont Arthritis Clinic, and Stacy Yonker, Chief Executive Officer at Sarasota Arthritis Center. Tune in for a no holds barred discussion about the unintended consequences of recent healthcare legislation, how PBMs and the vertical integration of healthcare...

On this episode of The Road to Care, we’re joined by industry thought leader Dr. Scott Howell and special guest co-host, SamaCare CEO Syam Palakurthy. Scott is best known for leading innovations to improve coverage, reimbursement and affordability of medicines as well as services supporting patient access at GSK, Genentech, Jazz, and Novartis. Scott has been teaching, researching and writing about...

SamaCare is joined by Vive Collective (https://www.vivecollective.com/) partner and digital health investor Cheryl Cheng for a candid discussion on the opportunities – and challenges — for digital health companies in today’s venture climate. Tune in for valuable advice for startup founders and technologists, and an inside-look for practices into what goes into building healthcare technology. You’l...

SamaCare is joined by WeInfuse founders Reece Norris and Bryan Johnson to discuss the rapidly evolving landscape of infusion care. From managing, to owning, to building software for infusion centers and infusion suites, Reece and Bryan share their experience helping infusion providers get patients from prescription to chair with minimal friction. You’ll hear: *Factors driving growth for one of the...

The Road to Care Podcast, sponsored by SamaCare, unites healthcare providers, healthcare administrators, pharmaceutical manufacturers, medtech investors, and policymakers in the quest to improve patient access to care. We discuss overcoming administrative hurdles to delivering optimal patient care, best practices in business development, clinical trends, emerging technologies and more. Tune in and...

SamaCare is joined by DENT CCO, Christine Mann, fresh off her multiple trips to DC educating healthcare policymakers on patient access issues. Tune in for a candid discussion on the challenges and opportunities in delivering specialty care to patients across rheumatology, neurology, ambulatory infusion centers and behavioral health practices. You’ll hear: Christine’s take on what policymakers need...