Center for Healthcare Leadership and Management
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The Business of Healthcare Podcast is presented by the Center for Healthcare Leadership and Management at the Naveen Jindal School of Management. It brings together business leaders and other forward thinkers to discuss how best to meet the challenges of a rapidly changing, increasingly complex healthcare industry. The center is based at The University of Texas at Dallas.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
It makes healthcare management legible by tracing how payment, governance, technology, and workforce decisions shape what organizations can actually change.
The Business of Healthcare Podcast follows the money, authority, and incentives shaping care. Professor Daniel Carnuta and Dr. Bob Kaiser lead guest conversations that connect payment models, hospital operations, workforce decisions, and technology adoption to their consequences…
Five chickens for an appendectomy might be your way into asking what healthcare payments reward.
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Nursing is framed as healthcare's human hinge, from bedside contact to team coordination.
The piece treats nursing as a connective part of healthcare, with the first point of contact, the practical bridge for patient needs, and a role that helps coordinate care across the team.
A grounded look at how one cyberattack can jam healthcare cash flow and operations.
The episode frames the Change Healthcare cyberattack as a business continuity problem first and a headline second. It traces how a broken claims pipeline can move quickly through UnitedHealthcare, Optum, and providers, creating cash flow strain, manual work, and operational…
A practical look at staffing pressure, aging demographics, and why reading the policy still matters.
This episode treats healthcare as a practical business story, with producer Jimmy Markham helping steer attention toward staffing pressure, the aging baby boom population, and the mismatch between what systems need and what they can supply.
Healthcare is treated as a service problem and a compliance problem, with HIPAA framed as something to design around.
The episode treats healthcare less like a narrow clinical workflow and more like a service system, where self-service, CRM tools, and care-team collaboration all have to fit together.
A grounded look at physician career paths, compensation, and the financial literacy gaps that shape them.
The episode frames non-clinical work as a practical way for physicians to contribute across healthcare delivery, patient experience, quality improvement, and system efficiency. Dr.
AI here means forecasting growth, staffing, and where the next hospital should go.
Healthcare AI comes across here less as a chatbot story than as an operations problem: where to build, whom to staff, and how to make the numbers work.
A patient look at healthcare education as a scalable business, with early lift, a lull, and steady follow-through.
This episode frames healthcare education as a scaling problem, but it keeps the human patience behind the numbers. Shiv Gaglani and Bob Kaiser trace how a study tool built for 120 classmates at Hopkins grew to over 3 million registered learners, and the path feels clear rather…
AI in healthcare is framed as a governance issue with real risk and accountability stakes.
The episode treats AI in healthcare less as a shiny technology story and more as a governance problem with real operational consequences. Standards are presented as a practical way to lower legal exposure, show compliance, support the board, and protect reputation.
Procedural judgment from the back table.
Independent pharmacy, from margins to mission.
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Rebecca Love says nursing was rolled into hospital room rates in the 1930s, which hid its value and helped trigger a major shortage.
Medicare Advantage is framed here as the collision of Medicare and managed care, with Daniel Carnuta opening on providers dropping plans and plans pulling out of markets.
The episode looks at why physicians need to understand the economics behind the care they deliver.
Britt Barrett, healthcare leadership expert and former hospital president, discusses the structural transformation of U.S.
The Business of Healthcare podcast features host Professor Daniel Carnuta and producer Jimmy Markham examining 2025 healthcare challenges through AI and implementation lenses.
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The episode looks at artificial intelligence in healthcare delivery from a provider’s side.
The Business of Healthcare Podcast episode "Alternative Health Plans: Do You Know the Risk?" has Daniel Carnuta talking with Becky Greenfield of Wolf Pinkavage Law Firm about plans that look like insurance but may not be licensed insurance at all.
A claims pipeline went dark.
Bob Kaiser opens by saying AI is often used loosely and inaccurately in healthcare, then introduces Mohamed El-Wazir, CEO of LineDance AI, to cut through the noise.
The Business of Healthcare Podcast episode “Sustainable Healthcare” pairs Dr.
The Business of Healthcare Podcast episode 120 centers on value-based pricing in healthcare, with host Daniel Carnuta and consultant Rita Numerov comparing fee-for-service billing to outcomes-based payment.
Donald Taylor, professor at UT Dallas and UT Southwestern and chairman of the Healthcare Standards Institute Board, says healthcare is already “dabbling” with AI while training, disclosure, and governance lag behind.
Eric Bricker traces his path from a 15-year-old NIH lab intern to emergency-room volunteer, hospital finance consultant, physician, and founder of Compass Professional Health Services.
Amit Khanna, SVP and General Manager of Health and Life Sciences at Salesforce, argues that healthcare should be treated like a customer experience, not a "monolithic industry." He says "Healthcare is broken, period," points to a $3 trillion U.S.
The Business of Healthcare Podcast episode on the state of AI in revenue cycle management centers on Daniel Carnuta's interview with David Dawson, Senior Vice President of Client Success at Conifer Health Solutions.
The episode centers nurses as the connective tissue of care.
Professor Daniel Carnuta interviews Dr.
Amy McDonough, Managing Director of Google's Fitbit Health Solutions, discusses the evolution of wearable technology from a startup challenge to mainstream healthcare tool.
Discussion on ai & code generation with industry expert.
The greatest threat to healthcare is health.
The episode centers on healthcare AI implementation and the friction that can come with it.
Bob Kaiser welcomes Shiv Gaglani to talk about Osmosis and the challenge of helping clinicians and caregivers learn more effectively.
The conversation starts with scale.
The Business of Healthcare Podcast episode features Kevin Kumler, President and General Manager of Levanto, a new employer-focused wellness company launched by Baylor Scott & White Health.
Teresa McDonald, Senior Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer at Duke University Health System, says Duke is trying to support new nurses in their first three years while turnover in that group is up in the 20s.
Traditional training pipelines are running out of room.