PODCAST

Stephen Furia on Mount Sinai’s Principles of Success for Direct to Purchaser Relationships

February 1, 2021

CPR’s Program Director, Andréa Caballero, chats with Stephen Furia, Senior Vice President, Population Health at Mount Sinai Health System. The Population Health division is the business unit within Mount Sinai that works directly with employers and other health care purchasers, providing an array of services including primary care focused near-site health centers, Centers of Excellence arrangements for specialty care, executive health programs, and, more recently, assisting employers in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.

CPR’s Top 10 Podcast Episodes of 2020

November 23, 2020

CPR is grateful to both our guests and audience who have contributed to our Listening In (with Permission) podcast series. Since CPR launched the podcast in the spring of 2017,

Linda Schwimmer on the health of New Jersey’s small group insurance market

October 26, 2020

Andréa Caballero, MPA, speaks with Linda Schwimmer, JD, President and CEO of the New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute (Quality Institute) to learn about a pressing issue: the health of New Jersey’s Small Group Insurance Market.

Rick Abbott on lowering costs by focusing on quality

August 17, 2020

Suzanne Delbanco chats with Rick Abbott, VP of Product and Market Solutions at Premera Blue Cross. Suzanne and Rick discuss if narrow networks, also known as high-performance networks, represent a viable way to lower prices in the employer-sponsored health insurance market.

Chris Cigarran on why the status-quo is riskier than trying something new

August 11, 2020

Suzanne Delbanco connects with Chris Cigarran, CEO of Imagine Health, an alternative health plan offering curated provider networks in select markets across the country. Prior to Imagine Health, Chris built the employer and government sales division of a wellness company and has also served as Chief HR Officer.

Ashok Subramanian on why unit price is still a big deal

July 28, 2020

Suzanne Delbanco interviews Ashok Subramanian, CEO and Founder of Centivo Health, an alternative Third-Party Administrator (TPA) that emphasizes value-based direct contracting and utilization of high-quality providers.

Alan Muney, MD, on why large health plans have a total cost of care advantage

July 21, 2020

Listen in as Suzanne Delbanco connects with Alan Muney, MD, MHA, former Chief Medical Officer of Cigna, former CEO of Equity Healthcare, and current health care advisor to multiple venture equity firms. This interview is part of CPR’s current work to understand whether group purchasing efforts can secure better health care value for employer-purchasers.

Anna Sinaiko on lessons learned from 40 years of consumerism in health care

June 16, 2020

Suzanne Delbanco chats with Anna Sinaiko, PhD, Assistant Professor at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. Anna Sinaiko studies patient or individual decision making in health care settings, a concept known as “consumerism” in health care.

Peter Lee on what alignment means for large purchasers like Covered California

May 19, 2020

Suzanne Delbanco speaks with Peter Lee, Executive Director of Covered California Health Exchange, to discover how Covered California plans to accelerate positive change in the health care system. Hint: Alignment with other large health care purchasers is at the center.

Zach Brown on the impact of accessible price transparency

May 11, 2020

Suzanne Delbanco chats with Zach Brown, PhD, Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan. Zach Brown used a quasi-experimental approach to analyze the impact of New Hampshire’s price

Bob Galvin on what COVID-19 means for health care purchasers

April 28, 2020

Bob Galvin MD, Operating Partner of Equity Healthcare and former Executive Director of Health Services and Chief Medical Officer for General Electric, suggests that the novel coronavirus paired with a challenging economy offers employer-purchasers a powerful inflection point.

Marilyn Bartlett on Montana’s “Medicare Plus” contracting strategy

March 31, 2020

Recorded on February 28, 2020. Listen in as Suzanne Delbanco speaks with Marilyn Bartlett, CPA, CMA, CFM, Senior Policy Fellow with the National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP). Prior

Michael Chernew on evaluating APMs in terms of sustainability

March 10, 2020

Suzanne calls Michael Chernew, PhD, director of the Healthcare Markets and Regulation (HMR) Lab in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School. They discuss his December 2019 publication in

Scott Weingarten on reducing low-value care with EHRs

March 3, 2020

Can Electronic Health Records (EHRs) help reduce unnecessary health care spending? Suzanne Delbanco speaks with Scott Weingarten, MD, MPH, consultant to the CEO at Cedars-Sinai and Professor of Medicine, and former Senior Vice President at Cedars-Sinai.