Healthcare value, stripped of polite fiction.
Relentless Health Value is a brisk interview show about healthcare value, especially where contracts, incentives, networks, and prices quietly decide outcomes. It suits listeners who want plainspoken analysis of how money, care quality, and operational decisions collide.
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Relentless Health Value is a fast, practical show about the business side of American healthcare. Its center of gravity is value: who defines it, who pays for it, who proves it, and who gets away with pretending. Recent episodes spend a lot of time with plan sponsors, self-insured employers, unions, clinics, independent practices, specialists, and clinical leaders. That focus gives the show a buyer's-eye view of healthcare without losing sight of patients. Price transparency data is not treated as a compliance artifact. It becomes a way to compare rates, identify hidden friction, challenge assumptions, and ask why the same service can carry wildly different prices. The show is especially sharp when it talks about lazy networks. A network that includes everyone but guides no one is not allowed to hide behind comforting language. Advanced primary care gets similar treatment. The show separates meaningful risk management from short visits, thin referrals, and models that sound better than they work. Direct-to-employer specialty care brings another recurring concern into view: the distance between the people buying care and the physicians delivering it. Outcomes matter here. So do baseline measures, patient-reported results, comorbidities, payment models, and the operational effort required to prove quality instead of merely claiming it. Fraud and waste are handled with the same bluntness. Episodes on Medicare billing schemes and durable medical equipment show how stolen data, suspect claims, and downstream accounting can damage ACOs and independent practices. Infusion pricing becomes a vivid case study in the failure of normal market logic. The show is not breezy, but it is conversational. It explains acronyms, names the traps, and keeps asking what a better decision would look like next Tuesday. Guests bring the technical material. The framing turns that material into a usable map for people who need healthcare to work better, not just sound better.
Made for: The show is for healthcare executives, plan sponsors, benefits leaders, clinicians, entrepreneurs, patient advocates, and policy-minded operators who want the real mechanics behind value-based care. It especially suits listeners who are comfortable with finance, contracting, quality measurement, and delivery-system detail.
What sets it apart: Relentless Health Value stands out by connecting technical healthcare finance to practical buying and delivery decisions. It is less interested in broad reform slogans than in prices, contracts, incentives, quality proof, and the specific places where money and care stop lining up.
American Healthcare Entrepreneurs and Execs you might want to know. Talking.Relentless Health Value is a weekly interview podcast hosted by Stacey Richter, a healthcare entrepreneur celebrating fifteen years in the business side of healthcare. This show is for leaders in pharma, devices, payers, providers, patient advocacy and healthcare business. It's for health industry innovators, entrepreneurs or wantrepreneurs or intrapreneurs. Relentless Healthcare Value is the show for you if you want to connect with others trying to manage the triple play: to provide healthcare value while being personally and professionally fulfilled.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Stacey Richter turns healthcare's opaque prices, contracts, and incentives into practical scrutiny of who pays, who profits, and who can intervene.
Relentless Health Value follows healthcare money through the contracts, incentives, and intermediaries that determine what care costs. In interviews led by Stacey Richter, a startling bill or policy failure becomes the starting point for precise questions about who pays, who…
A TPA's salesperson says yes; its lawyer says no. Stacey Richter wants you to catch the mismatch.
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A grounded review of how price, quality data, and transparency can reshape healthcare purchasing.
Healthcare value is usually framed as a quality problem, but this review gives the buying decision the same weight. It follows the case for employers and plan sponsors having provider quality data and prices in hand, including rates shown as a percentage of Medicare, before they…
Episode 503 maps the gap between employers and specialists, then drills into why measuring outcomes is hard but necessary.
Episode 503 of Relentless Health Value frames a familiar coordination problem: self-insured employers and the specialists who care for their members sit at opposite ends of a long, crowded roadway, while carriers, ASOs, TPAs, and large health systems fill the space between them.
A Medicare fraud story that traces stolen data into catheter bills, ACO exposure, and CMS accounting.
Relentless Health Value traces a Medicare fraud scheme from stolen medical data into catheter claims, DME bills, and wound-care charges, showing how the fallout can reach ACOs, independent practices, and plan sponsors such as self-insured employers.
A pointed look at how healthcare networks can leave patients facing wildly different prices for the same infusion.
Healthcare pricing comes into focus through a stark pair of infusion bills: $135 at an independent practice and $13,560 at a hospital down the street for the same drug.
A practical critique of why carrier choice can look like a market without creating real market pressure.
Commercial health-plan competition gets a skeptical, useful audit in this conversation with Jacob Asher, MD. The episode argues that carrier choice can look like a functioning marketplace while failing to create the pressure a real market would apply.
A practical guide to using TPA RFPs to test what vendors will put in writing.
A TPA RFP can start to feel like a fiduciary shootout when employers are unsure what vendors will actually commit to in writing. This episode gives the process a useful spine: send the RFP and the purchaser's contract together, review every redline at once, and treat gaps…
A focused look at price transparency as negotiating leverage for employer healthcare plans.
Price transparency lands here as a practical bargaining tool, with Jerry DeMasso focusing on the wide rate gaps between employers and the leverage sitting inside transparency files.
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Women changing healthcare, one conversation at a time.
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A former police detective discusses the three major barriers preventing the public sector from obtaining better affordable health benefits in an interview with Kevin Lyons.
This episode explores how Medicaid cuts and Medicare site-neutral payment changes impact plan sponsors, featuring an interview with James Gelfand, president of the ERISA Industry Committee.
This episode discusses the impact of Medicare site-neutral payments and HSA reforms on plan sponsors, featuring insights from James Gelfand on strategies and legislative updates.
This episode discusses common misconceptions about member engagement in healthcare, emphasizing the critical role employers play in steering plan members toward quality, cost-effective care to counter the influence of health systems.
This episode discusses the importance of trust and proactive steering of high-cost claimants in American healthcare, featuring insights from Dr.
Stacey Richter hosts Claire Brockbank from 32BJ to discuss how self-insured employers can take control of their TPA contracts.
Host Stacey Richter interviews Jerry DeMasso, CEO of Payerset, about how price transparency data is being utilized in healthcare.
Episode 507 is a review with a spine.
This episode explores how self-insured employers and clinics are leveraging price transparency data to uncover hidden costs and gain competitive insights in healthcare.
This episode discusses the 'operative value index' (OVI) as a mathematical framework to eliminate ambiguity in healthcare value assessment, helping clinical leaders and employers make data-driven decisions about high-value care.
This episode explores advanced primary care (APC) as a proven healthcare strategy that improves patient outcomes and reduces costs, distinguishing it from inadequate models.
The host introduces a special episode highlighting listener feedback and insights on practical transformation in the non-healthcare market, focusing on execution over theory.
Episode 503 opens with a road map.
Brian Mahood follows a Medicare fraud scheme that begins with stolen medical data.
The host opens with a question about paying $135 or $13,560 for the same infusion drug.
Relentless Health Value’s Stacey Richter and former health plan chief medical officer Jacob Asher, MD, examine why California’s commercial carrier rankings barely change over 14 years.