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EP500: This Is Episode 500, and It's All About You, Tribe

EP500: This Is Episode 500, and It's All About You, Tribe

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 This episode would not be happening, to be frank, if Cora Opsahl hadn't asked me what my plans were for episode 500. A few weeks ago, we were in the lobby bar at the legendary Hotel Chelsea—Sid Vicious, Patti Smith, you know the place. In our defense, the Hotel Chelsea is, in fact, probably about the halfway point between our two places of business. They are known for their martinis. The show just started, and it's already off the rails. For a full transcript of this episode, click here. If you enjoy this podcast, be sure to subscribe to the free weekly newsletter to be a member of the Relentless Tribe. Anyway, Cora said (casually, mind you), "Whatcha you gonna do for episode 500?" I said, "Oh, I have that all figured out. I'm gonna do episode 499, and then I'm gonna do episode 501, and then I'm gonna figure out episode 500 when I have a little bit more time to think about it. Because right now I'm really, really busy at my day job." As I've said many times, I used to crastinate, then I went pro. Cora just stared at me, gathering her thoughts maybe. Finally, Cora goes in response to my do episode 499 and then do episode 501 and then do episode 500 sometime later on when I get around to it. Cora goes, "Yeah, well, that is a truly terrible idea." Then she helped me figure out a good plan. So, welcome to episode 500. This podcast is sponsored by Aventria Health Group. While I'm talking about sponsored by, and I know I covered this in the Thanksgiving Show (INBW43), but I really, really wanna thank all of the individuals who have contributed moral and/or financial support. Back to how episode 500 came to be. The plan I concocted with Cora started out as a LinkedIn post. Here's the post: "Ten years ago and 500 episodes ago, I started Relentless Health Value because the healthcare industry felt like a game of pachinko. You drop a program or a policy or a technology in. It bounces around a black box. And sometimes the result is the opposite of what you intended or what you wanted." I keenly felt my lack of not just essential knowledge but just how to actually deploy that knowledge to move the needle and secure a really patient-centric system. But then I met the Relentless Health Tribe. You lot. "You are the alchemists of this industry. You take the words [that] you hear here and turn them into [tangible programs and solutions]," things that actually work in this hot mess that we call the healthcare sector. So, look, the whole reason for Relentless Health Value continuing for all of these years is the impact that you have. Some of this impact I hear about, but a lot of it, frankly, I don't. So, this is what I asked for on that LinkedIn post. I wrote, "I want to hear from you." And then I asked everyone reading to write their own accountings for how Relentless Health Value and its guests may have influenced their own trajectories toward a better way forward. Because here's the thing, and how do I wanna say this? Not everyone listens to the show. We are not everyone's cup of tea. We meaning, for sure, me; but yeah, if you're here listening, you, too. So, don't try to claim otherwise. I'm onto you. We are not only worried about patients/members, but we are also a bunch of deeply knowledgeable wonks who understand—because we need to—how the pipes have been laid and how the dollars flow through them. Because we get that you cannot actually manage to do the right thing by patients and members a lot of times, unless you have a handle on how this deeply opaque and often wildly counterintuitive world actually works that functions, in many ways, the opposite of what the press release says or the first three pages of the contract, as the case may be. So, I'm proud of you, and I'm proud that you are listening because if I added up the number of lives that you lot serve—like when you make decisions, how many are impacted by your choices—it's, I don't know, if I had to add it all up, I'd say back of envelope over 80 million people in this country, 100 million. Not sure how to count, because some of you work upstairs at health systems and provider organizations. Some of you are self-insured employers or TPAs (third-party administrators) or consultancies or solution providers, legislative folks, policymakers. Or maybe you just work with one patient at a time trying to figure out how to do that as best you can. You're here, and I appreciate that from the bottom of my heart, and I would certainly encourage you to look around because there's real power in this village that you are a part of and that can and will matter. So, again, this show, not for everyone by a long stretch. But who gravitates here are those with a strong desire to find their own North Star, their own beacon, as Alex Sommers, MD, put it. And we're all looking for actionable insights so we can manage to succeed doing something. We are not here to stare at our belly buttons. And this is often uncomfortable, right? It's sometimes really, really ...
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