Episodes

"I stopped doing what I didn't want to do anymore. It’s not hard to stop doing something you don't want to do... I didn't want to drink anymore." - Chris Leverett In this incredibly vulnerable and powerful episode, we step aw...

"Imagine getting a real-time snapshot of your health just by looking into your phone’s camera for 30 seconds." - Simon My guests this week are Simon Spurr , Founder of VivaScore , and Chris Burns , a veteran benefits advisor ...

"I asked him, 'What is it that you're teaching undergraduate students about benefits?’’…Just two slides. That blew me away." - Kyle Minick My guest this week is Kyle Minick , Vice President of Employee Benefits at Summit Fina...

"Whoever makes patient care more convenient is likely to win." - Chris Yarn My guest this week is Chris Yarn, Founder of Walk On Clinic, who joins me to explain why convenience is the ultimate currency in healthcare. Chris sh...

If you'd like your question answered on next month's episode, call/text 469-213-6381 and leave us a voicemail/text. Each month on Last Month In Healthcare, producer Nathaniel joins me to discuss the previous month's podcasts,...

“I think the next stage of American capitalism includes co-opetition." - Dutch Rojas On the last episode of Self-Funded with Spencer in 2025, Dutch Rojas joins the show to expose the financial "arbitrage" that he believes is ...

"Healthcare has had no star score, there's been no reliable pricing. It's all been just a black box." - Will Bruhn An estimated 21% of all medical care in the U.S. is completely unnecessary. My guest this week is Will Bruhn, ...

"Why in every other industry can we just check out and know exactly what it's going to cost? Why can't it be the same in healthcare? Why are we still mailing physical checks in 2025?" - Cory Morin My guest this week is Cory M...

If you'd like your question answered on next month's episode, call/text 469-213-6381 and leave us a voicemail/text. Each month on Last Month In Healthcare, producer Nathaniel joins me to discuss the previous month's podcasts,...

"Success leaves clues. And sometimes that clue is healthy leadership that is just able to take them from plateau to plateau." - Trey Marinello My guest this week, Trey Marinello of Houlihan Lokey, is an expert in a topic ever...

"I love working with people who aren't afraid to own up to their mistakes. Integrity is the most important thing to me." - Cara Kirsch What is the secret to a perfect broker-partner relationship? My guests this week, Cara Kir...

"People do more research on buying a refrigerator than they do on buying their health plan. And so I saw that as a level of brokenness that I felt... we as consultants could actually make a profound impact." - Trey Halbert Th...

"One out of seven people in the United States have some form of chronic kidney disease... 90% of those individuals have not been properly diagnosed." - Mark Masson My guest this week is Mark Masson, President of Renalogic, he...

"There needs to be a whole new suite of solutions that are forward looking and proactive and real time, and we gotta go and build that." - Sasha Gribov My guest this week, Sasha Gribov, founder of Milu Health, is on a mission...

If you'd like your question answered on next month's episode, call/text 469-213-6381 and leave us a voicemail/text. Each month on Last Month In Healthcare, producer Nathaniel joins me to discuss the previous month's podcasts,...

“Just because someone hasn't gone to the doctor in four years does not mean they're not a walking time bomb." - Garrett Jerue My guest this week, Garrett Jerue, argues that the key to solving our healthcare crisis is to think...

“I absolutely think we're in that tightening, hardening market... the days of the employers who were average risk seeing single digit rate increases, that's gone. It's going to be a double digit rate increase market going for...

"The biggest shift was the consolidation that happened with the insurance carriers themselves. From 25 or more carriers to just four national carriers." - John Rutledge How did health insurance get so broken? My guest this we...

"Eat your food as medicine or medicine will become your food." - Chef Austin Simmons Can better beef solve America's health crisis? My guests this week, Chef Austin Simmons of Chef and Rancher and benefits/nutrition expert Ch...

"If we can remove the cost barrier, folks are going to engage more because it's not standing in the way of going to get the care that they need or even preventive care." - Trey Smith High healthcare deductibles were sold to e...

"I can look for something on Amazon and have it shipped to my door tomorrow... so why wouldn't employees want a similar experience with their healthcare?" - Amanda Volner Can artificial intelligence actually make healthcare f...

"Good entrepreneurs fall in love with their solution and their platform, but great entrepreneurs fall in love with the problem." - Matt Scovil Matt Scovil and Nathan Gilchrist of Medify Health, have fallen in love with one of...

"I think the three strongest words that you can use as a leader, as a salesperson, as a client relationship person is I don't know." - Scott Milson My guest this week, 35-year industry veteran and author Scott Milson, joins t...

"We spend about $528 billion a year fixing the mistakes we make with medicines." - Chris Grilli Fixing healthcare's $528 billion dollar mistake starts with ending the "trial-and-error" prescribing that plagues our system. My ...