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
111 episodes
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...
Ep. 93 - Stop Babysitting Leaders: Build a Team That Decides, Delivers and Drives Growth (ft. Charles Haberkern)
When you find a mentor who still has more to teach than time to retire, you hit record. Host Meredith Hirsh sits down for a candid, fireside-style conversation with Charles Haberkern, CEO of Rheumatology Specialty Center in the Philadelphia are...
Ep. 92 - Prior Auth Is Breaking Care. A CEO Explains How to Fix It (ft. Syam Palakurthy)
Pull back the curtain on prior authorization and find out why it keeps derailing care. Meredith Hirsh sits down with SamaCare CEO and founder Syam Palakurthy to unpack how the process shows up in real life, from administrative overload to vague...
Ep. 91 - Denied, Delayed, Approved: The Paperwork That Overrules Your Doctor with Georgia Bonney
Cut through the noise and step into the real fight for patient access, where persistence and smart operations decide what care actually reaches people. In the latest Working Healthcare episode, host Meredith Hirsh speaks with Georgia Bonney, a ...
Ep. 90 - Who’s Left to Staff the Clinic? Inside the Healthcare Staffing Crisis (ft. Van Ton-Quinlivan)
Listen now to understand the health care staffing shortage beyond doctors and nurses. Open roles are stacking up. Teams are stretched thin. It’s about the allied health professionals who keep care moving — EMTs, medical assistants, phlebotomist...
Ep. 89 - From Goldman Sachs to Fit Golfer Girl: What Healthcare Leaders Can Learn (ft. Carolina Romero)
Step into the gym where burnout, insurance friction and true prevention collide. In this Working Healthcare episode, host Meredith Hirsh sits down in-studio with personal trainer and entrepreneur Carolina Romero, who left Goldman Sachs, rebuilt...
Ep. 88 - The Doctor Shortage Meets the Scope Debate with ARNP Rachael Busch-Feuer
Step into the exam room where staffing shortages, soaring demand and scope-of-practice battles collide. In the latest Working Healthcare episode, host Meredith Hirsh sits down in-studio with ARNP Rachael Busch-Feuer. With a physician dad and a ...
Ep. 87 - Scaling While Staying Independent: Inside the Growth of America’s Largest Physician-Owned Rheumatology Practice with Dr. Nehad Soloman
Step inside the playbook behind the nation’s largest independent rheumatology practice and hear what it really takes to scale while staying physician owned. In this episode of Working Healthcare, host Meredith Hirsh talks with Dr. Nehad Soloman...
Ep. 86 - Erin Williamson Explains How Child Trafficking Hides in Healthcare
Recognize Human Trafficking Awareness Month by learning how child trafficking can hide in plain sight throughout clinical care. In this special Working Healthcare episode, host Meredith Hirsh speaks with Love146 Chief Programs and Stra...
Ep. 85 - Dr. David Kenigsberg Strengthens Physician Leadership in a Consolidating Healthcare System
Hit play for a heart-forward look at how physicians lead, not just adapt, as healthcare consolidates. Working Healthcare host Meredith Hirsh sits down with cardiac electrophysiologist Dr. David Kenigsberg, who built a physician-guided cardiolog...
