#3: Leon Wisniewski on Barriers to Sharing Data Within Healthcare, CMS Hospital Pricing Requirements, and Health Cost Labs

#10: Amy Otto on Telemedicine and Mental Health

On this episode I sit down with Amy Otto who is the Director of Client Experience at VirtualMed Staff. VirtualMed Staff is a full-service telemedicine company that specializes in the placement of psychiatrists, hospitalists, and neurologists with hospitals, clinics, and medical groups across America. Amy has spent her career working in different areas of the healthcare and employee benefits industries and brought a unique set of experiences and knowledge to the discussion around telemedicine, mental health, cross state licensure and payment parody, and podcasting.
 

Connect: 

[email protected] 

[email protected] 

https://twitter.com/nickolascrim 

Referenced in the show: 

https://www.virtualmedstaff.com/ 

https://businessradiox.com/our-studios/sandysprings/atlanta-business-radio/ 

https://www.amazon.com/Power-Moments-Certain-Experiences-Extraordinary/dp/1501147765 

Time stamps: 

[1:06] Amy’s background 

[4:45] Telemedicine/ virtual care 

[8:20] Cross state licensure, payment parody, and psychiatrists shortages 

[13:53] VirtualMed Staff 

[19:45] Physician shortage 

[23:06] Broadband connection access 

[23:50] Day-to-day as Director of Client Experience. 

[30:25] Employer strategy around mental health 

[31:43] Virtual care and mental health 

[33:27] Mental health needs among college students 

[39:33] Atlanta Business Radio Show 

[44:21] Interview prep 

[47:08] The Power of Moments 

[49:57] Purchase of $100 or less 

#9: Vijay Kedar on Tomorrow Health and Simplifying Home-based Medical Care

On this episode I sit down with Vijay Kedar Co-founder and CEO of Tomorrow Health where they are working to simplify home-based medical care. They are tackling this problem in several different ways, which we dive into during the conversation. We discuss Vijay's biggest takeaways from the 2021 healthcare conference circuit and perspective on the industry, his motivation for starting Tomorrow Health, and some of the logistics of delivering high quality care to the home. 

Connect: 

[email protected] 

https://linktr.ee/nickolascrim 

Referenced in the Episode: 

https://home.tomorrowhealth.com/ 

https://medium.com/tomorrow-health/reimagining-healthcare-in-the-home

https://headway.co/ 

https://www.mavenclinic.com/ 

https://www.hioscar.com/ 

https://www.landmarkhealth.org/ 

https://www.scanhealthplan.com/ 

https://www.geisinger.org/ 

https://www.amazon.com/Hard-Thing-About-Things 

Timestamps: 

(1:27) HLTH Conference takeaways 

(4:36) Impressive healthcare companies 

(5:47) His path into healthcare 

(9:09 ) Tomorrow Health 

(12:29) Shift away from home based care 

(16:14) Barriers to home based care 

(20:06) Regional focus of healthcare 

(21:50) Patient experience at Tomorrow Health 

(24:17) Benefit for suppliers 

(25:30) Other D2C attempts 

(28:57) Surprising markets 

(29:40) Companies that inspire him 

(33:57) Growing the team 

(37:29) Hard Things About Hard Things 

#8: Dutch Rojas on Directing Contracting, Cash Prices, and Alternate Healthcare Funding Models

On this episode I sit down with Dutch Rojas founder of Sano Surgery, Everyone Healthcare, and Shop Healthcare - all of which exist to bring affordable & accessible medical treatments for the world. We talk about Dutch's path into healthcare and entrepreneurship, direct contracting and cash prices, and some alternate healthcare finance models he thinks have long term potential.

Connect: 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dutchrojas/ 

https://linktr.ee/nickolascrim 

Referenced in the episode: 

https://www.amazon.com/Hard-Thing-About-Things 

https://www.amazon.com/Zero-One 

Timestamps: 

() Dutch’s background 

() Contracting cash prices 

() Building an exchange 

() Financing healthcare long-term 

() Health share model 

() Healthcare costs a barrier to pursuing other jobs or lifestyles 

() Scaling the business 

() Price transparency 

() Contracting globally 

() Marketplace 

() Serving the underinsured and uninsured 

() Certificate of Need (CON) laws 

() Mentors 

() Book recommendations 

#7: Sidney Haitoff on Building a Price Transparent Consumer Marketplace

Connect:
[email protected]
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sidney-haitoff-5a805810/
https://twitter.com/nickolascrim
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickolasc/

Referenced in the Episode:
https://mishe.co/
https://surgerycenterok.com/
https://www.amazon.com/Good-Great

Timestamps: 

(0:37) Bringing healing to our healthcare system 

(3:50) Working in his Dad’s medical billing company 

(7:28) Difference between the contracted rate v. Billed charge 

(10:06) Pricing variance among hospitals v. Private practices 

(14:53) Reimbursement process 

(17:07) Dr. Keith Smith / Surgery Center of Oklahoma 

(22:34) mishe 

(32:11) Fund the Care Initiative 

(35:17) Uber and taxi medallions 

(38:31) Book Recommendation 

#6: Andy Schoonover on CrowdHealth and An Alternative Way to Shop and Pay for Healthcare

Connect:
https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/
[email protected]
https://twitter.com/nickolascrim
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickolasc/

Referenced in the Episode:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1285016/

https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/

https://www.amazon.com/Never-Pay-First-Bill-Health

Timestamps:
(0:54) Andy’s background and starting a search fund

(3:48) Changing the way we do things 

(4:53) Thinking differently & average folks

(7:24) Failing along the way & humility 

(8:48) Learning from employees at VRI 

(13:18) Business partner & complimentary skill sets

(16:04) Apple example 

(17:40) CrowdHealth & personal experience with the healthcare system 

(25:27) Subscription model, tools, and process 

(30:02) Cash-pay rate 

(31:17) Quality of care 

(35:15) Barriers to scaling 

(37:13) Net Promoter Scores 

(38:54) Price transparency

(43:28) Transparent revenue streams 

(45:10) Financial incentives 

(48:40) Lost wages 

(51:30) Patient advocacy

(53:08) Book recommendation