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Dec. 19, 2024

American Healthcare Doesn't Have To Be Like This 🇺🇸 #shorts #healthcare #insurance #healthinsurance

American Healthcare Doesn't Have To Be Like This 🇺🇸 #shorts #healthcare #insurance #healthinsurance

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Dec. 18, 2024

Here's What To Do If Your Hospital Bill Is Too High: #shorts #advocacy #medicalbilling #hospitals

Here's What To Do If Your Hospital Bill Is Too High: #shorts #advocacy #medicalbilling #hospitals Medical billing errors shouldn't be so commonplace. But because they are, healthcare patient advocates are hugely important. I've personally used them in the past, and Jenni shared several stories on this week's episode of Self-Funded…

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Dec. 17, 2024

Healthcare Can, And Should, Be Affordable For Americans 🇺🇸🩺 #shorts #america #healthcare #podcast

Healthcare Can, And Should, Be Affordable For Americans 🇺🇸🩺 #shorts #america #healthcare #podcast "Everybody in this country is a patient, so this applies to all of us." Jenni Nolan, BCPA is right: healthcare doesn't have to be this way. It can, and should, be affordable for average Americans. Education is…

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Dec. 17, 2024

Negotiating Fair Medical Bills, with Jenni Nolan

"I think that the general public thinks that health care is just expensive and this is just the way it has to be. It doesn't. And I think if more people knew that they would rise up and fight the system, fight for change.” - Jenni Nolan Jenni Nolan, Board-Certified…

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Dec. 12, 2024

Why Are We Wasting Money? The Key Problem with Healthcare Plans #shorts #waste #healthcare #benefits

Why Are We Wasting Money? The Key Problem with Healthcare Plans #shorts #waste #healthcare #benefits If an MIT engineer can't figure out how to utilize his healthcare plan, something is seriously wrong. David Mallen shares an epiphany he had in the clip below when discussing an ACA plan with an…

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Dec. 10, 2024

Texting Is The Future of Healthcare Communication #podcast #shorts #marketing #healthcare #benefits

Texting Is The Future of Healthcare Communication #podcast #shorts #marketing #healthcare #benefits 98% of text messages are read in less than two minutes. David Mallen from HealthJoy joined me this week on Self-Funded with Spencer to discuss how we can make health plans more effective by educating members. That starts…

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Dec. 10, 2024

Make Your Health Plan More Effective, with David Mallen

"Any time you can reward employees for doing the right thing, to me, it's benefiting the employer group, it’s benefitting everybody.” - David Mallen You can provide employees with the best healthcare benefits in the world, but if they don’t know how to navigate the healthcare system, those benefits aren’t…

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Dec. 4, 2024

23 Years Old With A 10% Chance To Live #cancer #stage4 #melanoma #shorts #healthcare #survivor

23 Years Old With A 10% Chance To Live #cancer #stage4 #melanoma #shorts #healthcare #survivor It's impossible to imagine what it's like to be told you have a 10% chance to live at 23. As Dylan Slattery shared on this week's episode of Self-Funded with Spencer, it completely changed the…

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Dec. 3, 2024

How Stage 4 Cancer Taught Dylan To Live With Purpose #shorts #cancer #survivor #cancersurvivor

How Stage 4 Cancer Taught Dylan To Live With Purpose #shorts #cancer #survivor #cancersurvivor "Living with more purpose and passion." Dylan Slattery's main takeaway from beating stage 4 cancer, against all odds. In this clip, Dylan shares the story of witnessing a family celebrating the life of somebody who recently…

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Dec. 3, 2024

Beating Stage 4 Cancer, Against All Odds (with Dylan Slattery)

"Looking back now, cancer gave me something to fight for at a time when I felt like maybe life wasn't worth fighting for." - Dylan Slattery Dylan Slattery, VP at ClaimsBridge and motivational speaker at Stage Four 2 On Stage, joined me this week to share his powerful story of…

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Nov. 26, 2024

Doctors DON'T Remember You From Last Year #shorts #doctor #doctors #healthcare #primarycare #podcast

Doctors DON'T Remember You From Last Year #shorts #doctor #doctors #healthcare #primarycare #podcast "I'm an ear, nose, and throat doctor. We don't remember your eardrums from last year." "I don't care what people tell you, they don't remember 3000 eardrums." Danish Nagda joined me on Self-Funded with Spencer this week…

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Nov. 25, 2024

AI Will Help Restore The Doctor-Patient Relationship 🤖 #podcast #ai #healthcare #doctor #ai #shorts

AI Will Help Restore The Doctor-Patient Relationship 🤖 #podcast #ai #healthcare #doctor #ai #shorts Danish Nagda, founder of Rezilient Health, worked as an ear, nose, and throat doctor and saw the potential for technology to help doctors be able to focus on their patients. Primary care doctors see more patients…

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Nov. 22, 2024

The Future Of Primary Care, with Danish Nagda

“I’m going to say something that people claim isn’t true, but it is. I’m an ear nose and throat doctor. I don't remember your eardrum from last year. I don't care what people tell you, doctors don't remember 3,000 eardrums.” - Danish Nagda Danish Nagda, founder of Rezilient, has come…

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Nov. 20, 2024

Nurses Know Which Hospitals Have Quality Care 👩‍⚕️ #nurse #nurses #hospitals #healthcare #insurance

Nurses Know Which Hospitals Have Quality Care 👩‍⚕️ #nurse #nurses #hospitals #healthcare #insurance How do you tell the quality of a hospital? Ask a nurse if they'd take their family there. Kimberly Carleson and Linda Komisak joined me on Self-Funded with Spencer to talk about tracking quality metrics using nurse…

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Nov. 19, 2024

Americans Are Being Kept In The Dark 🇺🇸 #insurance #healthcare #healthinsurance #podcast #shorts

Americans Are Being Kept In The Dark 🇺🇸 #insurance #healthcare #healthinsurance #podcast #shorts Until there's real transparency in this industry, the American people are being kept in the dark. As Linda Komisak and I share in this clip, we often don't even know what we're paying for, or the true…

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Nov. 19, 2024

Tracking Healthcare Quality Using Nurse Feedback with Kimberly Carleson & Linda Komisak

Claims Transparency, Quality Metrics, and Staffing Shortages with Kimberly Carleson & Linda Komisak "In what other industry could a purveyor put out 99% bad bills and stay in business?" - Linda Komisak “They're diagnosing things for things that you don't even have. And that’s scary.” - Kimberly Carleson Kimberly Carleson,…

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Nov. 18, 2024

How the American Spirit Can Inspire Change in Healthcare #shorts 🇺🇸

I love this Country. I love its people. I love the American Spirit. I think change only happens to our healthcare system when we channel that spirit. We need Americans aware enough, and angry enough, to mandate a better way forward. Every day I think about what I can do…

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Nov. 14, 2024

Better Healthcare Saves Lives #shorts #healthcare #insurance #cancer #doctor

Better Healthcare Saves Lives #shorts #healthcare #insurance #cancer #doctor From 15 heart attacks a year to 2. From multiple stage 3/4 cancers to literally none. This is what can happen when primary care doctors are allowed to focus on helping their patients be healthy longterm, developing relationships with their patients…

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Nov. 12, 2024

"The Best Way To Use US Healthcare Is To NOT Use US Healthcare" #shorts #healthcare #insurance

"The Best Way To Use US Healthcare Is To NOT Use US Healthcare" #shorts #healthcare #insurance In this clip, I break down the fundamental misconception that led me to create Self-Funded with Spencer: Better healthcare is often cheaper for employers when they switch from being fully-insured to self-funded. I was…

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Nov. 12, 2024

A Doctor's Mission For More Conscious Healthcare (with Scott Conard)

A Doctor's Mission For More Conscious Healthcare (with Scott Conard) "Quit tolerating mediocrity. Go get in action. Find the right broker consultant that will take you to a new place. Don't give up hope." - Scott Conard Dr. Scott Conard tragically lost 3 patients one summer to unexpected heart problems,…

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Nov. 7, 2024

Are Warranties the Future of High-Cost Healthcare? #shorts #healthcare #therapy #insurance #podcast

Are Warranties the Future of High-Cost Healthcare? #shorts #healthcare #therapy #insurance #podcast What if you paid for a multi-million dollar gene therapy treatment and it didn't work? Oscar L. Bronsther, MD, FACS and Carolina Escobar joined me this week on Self-Funded with Spencer for a deep dive on the economics…

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Nov. 5, 2024

We Need To Stop Healthcare From Eating Up Our Economy 🩺💰📈 #shorts #healthcare #economy #insurance

We Need To Stop Healthcare From Eating Up Our Economy 🩺💰📈 #shorts #healthcare #economy #insurance Healthcare costs could continue to increase and reach 30-35% of our GDP over the next 2 decades. Oscar L. Bronsther, MD, FACS shares some of the ramifications of that happening in the clip below, but…

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Nov. 5, 2024

The Economics of Cell and Gene Therapy with Oscar Bronsther & Carolina Escobar

"It's progress we couldn't have envisioned decades ago." - Oscar “I felt interested in being part of something bigger than my practice and something that will impact even more people that I was able to in the hospital.” - Carolina Dr. Oscar Bronsther and Dr. Carolina Escobar from Interlink joined…

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Oct. 30, 2024

Here's When American Healthcare Will ACTUALLY Change 🇺🇸🩺 #shorts #healthcare #insurance #podcast

Here's When American Healthcare Will ACTUALLY Change 🇺🇸🩺 #shorts #healthcare #insurance #podcast I believe that there's a coming "watershed" moment in healthcare, when the American people have truly had enough. I believe that starts around the dinner table. Part of what I aim to do is speak about the big…

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