🎯 Insurance denials. Network contracts. A healthcare system that feels impossible to navigate.

If you’re a clinic owner or healthcare leader trying to understand why costs keep rising while providers and patients both lose — this episode is for you.

📌 In this episode of All Things LOCS, hosts Dr. Dan Neissany, DPT, sits down with healthcare policy expert Katy Talento for a deep conversation on insurance networks, PBMs, employer-driven healthcare reform, and why many providers feel trapped in a broken system. From her time working in the White House and public health policy to helping employers build alternative healthcare plans, Katy breaks down how insurance middlemen, network contracts, and lack of price transparency impact clinics, providers, and patients alike.

✅ Key Takeaways

🔹 How PBMs and insurance middlemen drive up healthcare costs while limiting provider freedom

🔹 Why many independent practices feel trapped by network contracts and reimbursement models

🔹 Actionable steps for introducing competitive cash-pay options into your clinic

🔹 How employers, providers, and communities can work together to build alternative healthcare networks

🔹 Dan and Antonio’s take on patient responsibility, healthcare transparency, and taking control of your own health decisions

💬 Want help implementing these strategies in your clinic?

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⏱️ Chapter Markers:

00:00 – Katy’s Background in Government & Public Health

08:37 – Pharmaceutical Influence & Trust in Healthcare

20:18 – Why Drug Costs Keep Rising

30:44 – Cash Pay Healthcare

37:12 – Building Community-Based Healthcare Networks

47:44 – Why Patients Must Take Ownership of Their Health

58:55 – Practical Steps for Clinics to Move Toward Cash Pay

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