The Race to Value Podcast

The Race to Value Podcast


Latest Episodes

Ep 7 - Realizing the Vision of Advanced Primary Care, with Jed Constantz, DBA
September 08, 2020

Primary care is especially compromised in the ongoing pandemic crisis. PCPs are uniquely vulnerable to the deleterious economic effects of COVID-19, since most of their revenue still comes from in-person visits which have plummeted since March amid wid...

Ep 6 - Leading a Quality Improvement Revolution, with Stephanie Mercado
August 31, 2020

Quality in health care has been a hot topic for over 20 years, ever since the landmark report, To Err is Human, which declared that up to 100,000 people die ...

Ep 5 - Overcoming the Limitations of Medicine with True Palliative Care, with Dr. Tim Ihrig
August 24, 2020

Palliative care, and the role it plays in health value, is difficult for many people to understand because it runs so contra to the linear algorithm that is allopathic medicine. Curative care – played ...

Ep 4 - Building a Legacy of Care for Seniors, with Carrie Coumbs
August 17, 2020

In health care, we excel in addressing problems in the human body that are fixable.  However, with regard to the two main un-fixables in life — aging and dying— we often inflict therapies on patients that shorten lives or increase suffering ...

Ep 3 - Working Together to Care as One, with Dr. David Nace
August 10, 2020

How does an organization have a banner year in 2019, start 2020 with additional momentum, and then continue to grow despite COVID-19 making them change their whole approach? Because they ...

Ep 2 - Bonus Episode: Crisis in the Rio Grande Valley: COVID-19 and Hurricane Hanna
August 03, 2020

The Rio Grande Valley, located in the southernmost tip of Texas along the US-Mexico border, has become a new epicenter for COVID-19 over the last month.  Death rates are also ...

Ep 1 - The Magic of Physician-Led Value Based Care, with Edwin Estevez
July 29, 2020

Physician groups are becoming the dominant type of new entrant into the ACO space and have been most successful in achieving savings to date.  Many in our industry think that ...

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