Working Healthcare
The truth reshaping America’s $5 trillion healthcare system. This show provides a front-row seat to the policies, powerhouses and forces. Candid conversations no one else is telling with the most fascinating healthcare leaders, every week hosted by trailblazer Meredith Hirsh. You can’t fix what you don’t understand.
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Episodes
120 episodes
Ep. 118 - The CEO, the Clinician and the Cost of Caring (ft. Ann Monis)
Ann Monis knows how to build under pressure. She worked her way through college, tested out of courses to save tuition and carried that grit into healthcare. Today, she leads a growing behavioral health organization while raising two young sons...
Ep. 117 - What American Healthcare Still Gets Wrong About Menopause (ft. Maryon Stewart)
A woman wakes at 3 a.m., drenched in sweat and unable to sleep. Her mind feels foggy. Her patience runs thin. Her body no longer feels familiar. She asks for help and too often hears, “That is just menopause.”In this episode of Working H...
Ep. 116 - Workflow Secrets and a Patient Roadmap: How Allen Cooper Wants to Fix Healthcare
A hospital runs on more than white coats and exam rooms. It runs on hidden workflows, clunky communication and quiet decisions that either protect patients or push them into delays and frustration. In this episode of Working Healthcare, host Me...
Ep. 115 - Rural Hospitals Are Vanishing — Tom Campanella Explains Why It Matters
Tom Campanella steps into Working Healthcare with a lifetime of battle-tested stories from the front lines of policy, payers and patients. He grew up in the inner city, walked into Cleveland City Council in his 20s and decided politics was not ...
Ep. 114 - From Castro’s Cuba to Florida’s First Health Secretary: Dr. Ana Viamonte Ros Fights for the Invisible Patient
We are back! During our brief July hiatus, Working Healthcare re-released four foundational episodes that reshaped how we see American healthcare. We now return with a powerful conversation about the people and forces moving car...
Ep. 113 - Ali Kaufman Is Tackling Youth Mental Health and Redefining Healthcare Boundaries - Re-release
When the healthcare system fails kids, classrooms quietly turn into the new emergency rooms. In this re-release of a foundational episode, of Working Healthcare, Meredith Hirsh sits down with Ali Kaufman, founder and CEO of Space of Mind, to ex...
Ep. 112 - Justin Hand Unveils Insights on Healthcare's Private Equity Landscape - Re-release
Physician burnout rises, administrative burdens pile up and private equity money floods into healthcare, but most doctors still ask one urgent question: “What are my real options?” In this re-release of a foundational episode of Working Healthc...
Ep. 111 - Chuck Melendi Unveils the Truth Behind Big Pharma - Re-release
Drug prices soar, patient bills spike and everyone blames Big Pharma, but what if the real power players sit in the shadows behind your pharmacy counter? In the re-release of this foundational episode of Working Healthcare, Meredith Hirsh invit...
Ep. 110 - Demystifying Pharmacy Benefit Managers (ft. Alerie Stiles) - Re-release
Pharmacy benefit managers sit between your doctor and your drug, yet almost no one understands how they really operate. In this re-release of Episode 5, Meredith Hirsh and guest Alerie Stiles strip away the jargon and expose the vivid, real-wor...
Ep. 109 - Downcodes, Takebacks and Timely Filing: How Payers Really Win (ft. Chris Acevedo)
Most people think a doctor’s visit ends when they walk out of the exam room. It doesn’t. That visit triggers a maze of prior authorizations, coverage rules, coding decisions and payer tactics that can make or break a medical practice months or ...
Ep. 108 - Where Did All the Doctors Go? A Surgeon and Medical School Dean on What We’re Losing (ft. Dr. Chad Perlyn)
When Chad Perlyn was four, his parents drove through the night to say goodbye to a baby who was not expected to live. A young pediatric surgeon walked into the waiting room, laid out an impossible choice then walked back out hours later with a ...
Ep. 107 - From War Zones to Break Rooms: What Healthcare Leaders Miss About Change (ft. Dr. Loubna Noureddin)
At 10 years old, Loubna Noureddin runs from her home in Sierra Leone as gunfire explodes, clutching fear and leaving her teddy bear behind. In the jungle, hungry and exhausted, she follows the smell of barbecue and realizes the feast might be h...
Ep. 106 - Why Healthcare Keeps Saying No to Better Solutions (ft. Holley Miller)
What happens when an industry built on science and data refuses to act on its own evidence? Host Meredith Hirsh sits down with Holley Miller, a veteran health tech strategist whose 40-plus years navigating medical device adoption, robotic surge...
Ep. 105 - Why Healthcare Leaders Must Do the "Heart" Work with Lindse Murphy
What happens when the people treating trauma are quietly drowning in it themselves? On Working Healthcare, host Meredith Hirsh sits down with Lindse Murphy, behavioral health executive, board-certified behavior analyst and founding CEO of a sta...
Ep. 104 - Reclaiming Joy When Medicine Loses Its Meaning with Dr. Alen Voskanian
What happens when the thing that broke you isn't the hard work but everything around it? On Working Healthcare, host Meredith Hirsh sits down with Dr. Alen Voskanian, physician, author and palliative care specialist, to explore what's really dr...
Ep. 103 - Follow the Money: Inside America's Drug Pricing Black Box (ft. Tesh Khullar)
If we are insured and spending nearly half a trillion dollars a year on prescription drugs, why are patients still standing at the pharmacy counter being told no? This episode of Working Healthcare follows that money.Host Meredith Hirsh ...
Ep. 102 - Burnout, ‘Good Girls,’ and a System Never Built for Women with Sadie Wackett
What if the real problem isn’t that women “can’t handle it,” but that the system never considered them in the first place? On this episode of Working Healthcare, host Meredith Hirsh sits down with leadership coach and former chief people office...
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Ep. 101 - Virtual Physical Therapy Was Written Off as Impossible. Ashok Gupta Proves It’s Not.
What happens when two physical therapists sitting on their couch realize the entire delivery model for their profession is broken? On Working Healthcare, host Meredith Hirsh talks with Ashok Gupta, Doctor of Physical Therapy and founder of Ther...
Ep. 100 - Private Equity vs. Independent Medicine: When Wall Street Enters the Exam Room (ft. Anna Sobkiv)
Is private equity helping physician practices survive or quietly redefining the future of independent medicine? Host Meredith Hirsh sits down in her Delray Beach podcast studio with Anna Sobkiv, Executive Director, Healthcare Services, J.P. Mor...
Ep. 99 - CEO Shift: How Leadership Changes as Healthcare Companies Grow (ft. Joe Luminiello)
What separates an entrepreneur from a CEO, and why does that distinction matter in healthcare today? Host Meredith Hirsh talks with RCG Intel co-founder and CEO Joe Luminiello about how leadership must evolve as healthcare companies grow and sc...
Ep. 98 - Ukraine to U.S. Medicine: Dr. Maryna Yudina on Prevention vs Profit in Healthcare
Question why prevention keeps losing to profit in American healthcare. In this episode of Working Healthcare, host Meredith Hirsh sits down with Dr. Maryna Yudina to explore how her journey from Ukraine to the United States shaped the way she s...
Ep. 97 - When Patients Disappear, Healthcare Fails (ft. Paul Harris)
Step into one of healthcare’s most expensive blind spots: the patients who quietly fall out of care while busy practices struggle to keep up. On this episode of Working Healthcare, Meredith Hirsh talks with Paul Harris about what happens when m...
Ep. 96 - Healthcare Runs on Women. So Why Don't We Lead It? (ft. Meredith Hirsh)
Lean in and make space for this week’s Working Healthcare episode, closing out Women’s History Month for a reason. Most weeks, host Meredith Hirsh interviews guests to uncover the inner workings of the American healthcare system because we can’...
Ep. 95 - What’s Making America So Sick? Dr. Pat on Health, Habits and Healing (ft. Dr. Patricia Boulogne)
Why are so many Americans sick, exhausted and trapped in a healthcare system that rewards treatment over prevention? In this thought-provoking episode of Working Healthcare, host Meredith Hirsh sits down with Dr. Patricia Boulogne, author of Wh...
Ep. 94 - Why Great Healthcare Teams Quit: The Culture Issue Leaders Miss (ft. Dan Neissany)
Be ready to rethink how you hire, lead and retain in healthcare as Working Healthcare host Meredith Hirsh sits down with Dan Neissany. Learn how a physical therapist turned author, healthcare business strategist and podcast co-host built a lead...
