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.
Episodes
84 episodes
Ep. 82 - Lynette Byrnes Explains How Independent Practices Stay Strong
Step into the ever-changing world of healthcare as host Meredith Hirsh sits down with Lynette Byrnes, a longtime force in rheumatology operations. In this episode of Working Healthcare, Lynette explains how she helps teams tackle the day-to-day...
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Ep. 81 - From Hotels to Hospitals: Herold Figareau Elevates the Patient Experience
“Patient experience” is on every strategic plan, but Herold Figareau treats it like an operating system, not a slogan. In this episode of Working Healthcare, host Meredith Hirsh sits down with Herold, a former hospital concierge turned health s...
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Ep. 80 - Wine, Weed and the Next Generation: Dalton Hirsh Confronts Cannabis and Public Health
Alcohol use is dropping, THC products are exploding and American healthcare is not ready for what comes next. In this episode of Working Healthcare, host Meredith Hirsh talks with her son, fermentation science student and winemaker Dalton Hirsh...
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Ep. 79 - Neeraj Puro Reshapes Healthcare Education for the Next Generation
Explore how the next generation of healthcare leaders is taking shape inside and outside the classroom. Host Meredith Hirsh and Neeraj Puro, director of health administration programs at Florida Atlantic University, dive into academic trends an...
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Ep. 78 - How Tara Gillespie Leads a 17-Location Independent Dermatology Practice
Explore how Tara Gillespie rises from medical assistant to CEO as she leads a 17-location independent dermatology practice while staying connected to patient care. She explains how she manages acquisitions, integrates cultures across rural and ...
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Ep. 77 - Karen Ferguson Turns Patient Stories into Policy that Sticks
Tap into Working Healthcare as Meredith Hirsh discovers how Karen Ferguson turns patient stories into policy change. After decades running a rheumatology practice and analytics teams, Karen founded Our Stories Rx to collect, structure and aim p...
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Ep. 76 - What’s Really Driving Healthcare Costs? Dr. Michael Burgess on Policy that Works
Former Congressman and OB-GYN Dr. Michael Burgess joins Working Healthcare for a candid conversation about what’s really happening behind the scenes in American healthcare and what it’ll take to fix it. From ACA subsidies and Medicare reform to...
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Ep. 75 - Mallika Khandelwal Solves Bottlenecks, Speeds Starts and Saves Staff Sanity
Cut delays on Working Healthcare as host Meredith Hirsh interviews Mallika Khandelwal to expose how prior authorization, pharmacy routing and paperwork stall specialty starts and drain teams. Raised by two physicians and accepted to medical sch...
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Ep. 74 - Ginger Allen Builds Fierce Physician Families, Not Burnout
In this Working Healthcare episode, Meredith Hirsh teams up with Ginger Allen, a powerhouse leader redefining physician advocacy, healthcare leadership and medical alliances. Together they flip advocacy from afterthought to engine as G...
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Ep. 73 - Corey Feldman Breaks the Denial Cycle and Funds Care
Start fixing claim denials now on Working Healthcare as Meredith Hirsh presses Corey Feldman to show how they choke care and crush margins. After a medical billing nightmare left his family with nearly $1 million in charges, this solutions-driv...
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Ep. 72 - Medicare Advantage Reality Check with Jaime Fiore: Open Enrollment Guide
Medicare Open Enrollment runs October 15 to December 7, and this episode sprints past the hype to arm you with clear, actionable guidance on Medicare Advantage. Listen to the latest Working Healthcare episode when Meredith Hirsh sits down with ...
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Ep. 71 - Dr. Arthur Palamara Charts Five Decades in Medicine and Health Insurance
Grab a coffee or tequila, whichever suits your mood and the time of day, to join Working Healthcare host Meredith Hirsh in a sit-down interview with Memorial Regional Healthcare vascular surgeon and longtime leader in organized medicine, Dr. Ar...
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Ep. 70 - Elizabeth Chabe Guides Life Sciences and Diagnostics Founders through Funding Headwinds and Pilots
Join Working Healthcare host Meredith Hirsh for a high-velocity conversation with Elizabeth Chabe, CEO of High Touch Group and author of The Giant’s Ladder. With venture capital cooling and NIH funding uncertain, the episode maps how life scien...
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Ep. 69 - Dr. Allison Ferris Examines Teaching, Training and Practice-ready Internists
Step into a candid conversation with Working Healthcare host Meredith Hirsh and Florida Atlantic University College of Medicine Professor and Chair Dr. Allison Ferris. From swelling Match classes to record debt, this episode asks whether ...
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Ep. 68 - From Football to Big Pharma, Jon Hickman is Rewriting Pharmacy's Playbook
Press play as Jon Hickman tells Working Healthcare host Meredith Hirsh how juggling school and college athletics forged his leadership style. Follow Jon's path from all-conference track and field star and college football player to a 16-year ca...
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Ep. 67 - Why Fran Nachlas is Running for Mayor?
Get the inside story as Meredith Hirsh sits down one-on-one with Fran Nachlas, a surgical nurse turned Boca Raton deputy mayor and current mayoral candidate, to explore how local leadership drives community health. Drawing on nearly 30 years in...
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Ep. 66 - Preston Alexander Outlines how Physicians can Reclaim Independence
Join Working Healthcare’s Meredith Hirsh and Mike Chavez as they confront the drastic drop in physician-owned practices and the consolidation that drives costs higher. Meet revenue-cycle rebel Preston Alexander, founder of Forward Slash / Healt...
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Ep. 65 - Steve Lewis Brings Rock 'n' Roll Discipline to Patient Records
Hit play to hear how a rock-and-roll project manager became the founder trying to fix everyday healthcare chaos. Join Working Healthcare’s Meredith Hirsh as Steve Lewis recounts Bowe’s premature arrival at 34 weeks and the binder that sparked N...
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Ep. 64 - Carly Salamone Dissects the One Big Beautiful Bill for Rural America
Tune into this episode of Working Healthcare to learn how the One Big Beautiful Bill Act could reshape rural health care as Meredith Hirsh and Mike Chavez interview policy leader Carly Salamone. With a dozen years in rural hospital care, Carly ...
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Ep. 63 - From RN to VP: Heather Woolf on Leading and Lifting Women in Healthcare
Hit play to hear how one nurse shattered ceilings on her way to the c-suite. In this episode of Working Healthcare, Meredith Hirsh and Mike Chavez sit down with Heather Woolf, Vice President of Operations at the Hospital for Special Surgery, fo...
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Ep. 62 - Sean Travers on Growing Independent Practices with Ancillary Services and Vertical Integration
Discover how smart strategies and bold decisions are transforming independent healthcare. In this episode of Working Healthcare, Meredith Hirsh and Mike Chavez sit down in the studio with Sean Travers, a seasoned healthcare expert dedicated to ...
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Ep. 61 - Dr. Matthew Mundwiler on Saving Private Practice and Fighting Healthcare Consolidation
Press play on a real conversation about staying independent in a system built for giants. In this episode of Working Healthcare, Meredith Hirsh and Mike Chavez sit down with Dr. Matthew Mundwiler, a private practice rheumatologist from Columbus...
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Ep. 60 - Dr. Daniel Solomon and Mark Elfers Tackle the Physician Shortage with Digital Innovation
Join hosts Meredith Hirsh and Mike Chavez for a high-impact episode of Working Healthcare as they tackle one of the most urgent challenges in U.S. healthcare: the physician shortage. In this future-focused conversation, Dr. Daniel Solomon—a Har...
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Ep. 59 - Ali Kaufman Is Tackling Youth Mental Health and Redefining Healthcare Boundaries
Tune in to a powerful, solutions-driven conversation about youth mental health, education, and the growing physician shortage. Join host Meredith Hirsh for an in-studio Working Healthcare interview with Ali Kaufman—founder of Space of Mind and ...
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Ep. 58 - Beyond Burnout: Dr. Wendy Dean on Confronting Moral Injury in Medicine
Join host Meredith Hirsh, co-host Mike Chavez and psychiatrist Dr. Wendy Dean for a powerful episode of Working Healthcare that exposes the deeper crisis behind physician burnout: moral injury. Dr. Dean—author, podcaster and co-founder of the n...
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