Chris Comeaux
121 episodes listed below
Purpose under pressure in healthcare leadership.
Anatomy Of Leadership treats leadership as practical work inside complicated healthcare systems. Recent conversations move from Medicare Advantage and hospice integrity to caregiving, sabbatical, purpose, and the discipline of changing pace.
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Anatomy Of Leadership is a reflective leadership show with a clear center of gravity in hospice, end-of-life care, and healthcare systems. It uses purpose-driven leadership as the frame, then tests that frame against real policy and operational pressure. Chris Como leads many of the conversations with a mix of curiosity, conviction, and practical concern. The show often returns to cause and purpose, but it does not leave those ideas floating above the work. Recent episodes ask how Medicare Advantage could change hospice, what lessons came from VBID, and how payers might be held responsible for poor outcomes. The discussions are candid about network design, prior authorization, palliative care, patient transitions, and the tension between smaller providers and larger market forces. They also take on hospice fraud and the need to distinguish strong care from weak or harmful practice. Private equity and AI enter the conversation as forces reshaping end-of-life care. So do margins, recommendations, nonprofit vulnerability, and for-profit growth. The show has an especially strong interest in integrity: clinical standards, transparency, quality rewards, and the public brand of hospice. Not every episode is policy-heavy. Some conversations slow down around caregiving, sabbatical, Sabbath, calling, energy, joy, and the need to be present. The Carla Davis episodes are more personal, using leadership to examine pace, identity, and how a productive life can be redirected rather than discarded. The T.R. Reid conversation widens the lens to American healthcare and the downstream effects that land inside hospice. Across these shifts, the show keeps asking leaders to connect belief with behavior. It is serious without being sterile. It favors long-form thinking over quick inspiration. The recurring brain bookmark gives each episode a closing thought, usually a quote or compact phrase meant to sharpen memory. For healthcare leaders, board members, and mission-driven operators, Anatomy Of Leadership offers a steady place to think through how systems, money, care, and purpose collide.
Made for: Built for healthcare leaders, board members, and mission-driven operators. It also suits listeners interested in leadership shaped by caregiving, policy, and organizational integrity.
What sets it apart: The show pairs reflective leadership language with detailed hospice and healthcare policy conversations. Its strength is the movement between personal purpose and the mechanics of payment, quality, regulation, and care delivery.
Leaders, visionaries, and changemakers, I'm thrilled to introduce our new podcast, "The Anatomy of Leadership," a series that delves deep into the essence of purpose-driven leadership. As your host, I'll guide you through a journey of discovery—revealing how effective leadership can significantly alter the trajectory of our teams, organizations, and the world at large. We'll examine topics like: - Self-Mastery- Caring for Others- Influence- Intention- Cause and Purpose
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Hospice policy meets the hard math of network control under Medicare Advantage.
Robin Heffernan's conversation keeps hospice under Medicare Advantage in view, and it works best when it balances VBID against the larger question of whether a limited demonstration can really support a national rollout.
Hospice values, MedPAC margins, and VITAS's new CEO give the segment its shape.
The episode stays centered on hospice leadership and payment policy, moving from VITAS and new CEO Joel Worley to the four core values of hospice care and then to MedPAC's March 2026 report to Congress.
A reflective leadership conversation about pausing, purpose, and directing energy with more intention.
Carla Davis and Chris Como settle into a conversation about pausing without treating it as hesitation. The focus stays on purpose, caregiving, Sabbath, and the discipline of making room to breathe, think, read, reflect, and be.
Leadership balance before burnout takes over.
A midweek reset for school leaders.
Karen McCullough and Chris Como examine how Gen X, millennials, Gen Z, and baby boomers create different expectations about feedback, meetings, work, and workplace culture.
Anatomy Of Leadership host Chris Como interviews generational expert Karen McCullough about workplace conflicts involving communication, meetings, time, emotions, and leadership expectations.
Robin Heffernan says plans should focus on total cost of care, not prior authorization, because “the medical authorization is the wrong focus point.”
Chris Como and Court Kasner focus on hospice policy, private equity, and Medicare economics in a discussion that names Oregon’s Senate Bill 1575, MedPAC’s March 2026 report, and the National Alliance for Care at Home’s 2025 Facts and Figures Report.
Anatomy of Leadership's part-two episode on “Be Where You Are” centers on Carla Davis's gap year, hospice work, and caregiving.
Host Chris Como interviews author T.R.