The Granite List Live

Advance Care Planning has begun to gain more and more traction in the employee benefits space over the past couple of years, so this week, Joanne Eason, President of Five Wishes, joins the show to discuss what Advance Care Planning is, why it is important for people of all ages to have, and how their Five Wishes at Work program brings Advance Care Planning to organizations as an employee benefit. 

Steve Zetzl, Vice President, Client Strategies, and Katherine Lurk, Vice President, Clinical Strategies, of Northwind Pharmaceuticals join this week's show to discuss Northwind's PSA (Pharmacy Services Administration) approach and how it serves to differentiate them from the PBMs on the market.

This week, Andy McMillan, Executive Vice President of Homestead Smart Health Plans, joins the show to take a deep dive into reference-based pricing. Specifically we dive into the savings associated with reference-based pricing, the myths around it, and what brokers and employers need to know as the consider moving to a reference-based plan. Additionally, Andy details how Homestead utilizes reference-based pricing and how they use the customer experience to differentiate themselves from other solutions on the market.

An important, and often overlooked part of employee well-being is financial wellness. With 78% of Americans living paycheck to paycheck, and a significant increase in employees drawing loans on their 401(k), the recent partnership between BrightDime and Kashable looks to equip employees with financial coaching and low-cost loans to help them achieve their financial goals. This week we are joined by David Stedman, CEO of BrightDime, and Jameson Fauver, VP of Business Development at Kashable, as they talk through their partnership and the value it brings.

GLP-1s continue to dominate conversation in the industry, so in this week's episode the expert team at Tria Health joins the show to dive into these medications, common misconceptions, and how they should ultimately be utilized. We are joined by Jessica Lea, CEO of Tria Health, Jenny Edwards, Manager of Health and Wellness, and Austin Morgan, Lead Clinical Pharmacist. In addition to GLP-1s, the Tria team will inform you about their Choose to Lose program which provides participants with pharmacist led interventions and health coaching regarding nutrition and exercise.

This week, Tim Hawley, CEO of Exemplar Insurance Associates, joins our show to discuss how the American healthcare system is broken - primarily due to misaligned incentives. Although the system is 'broken', Tim shares how he and Exemplar are working to provide more affordable, quality care to those they work with.

Kari Niblack, President of Blackwell Captive Solutions, joins this week's show after recently being nominated as one of the Top 50 Most Influential Women in the Captive Industry as well as being shortlisted for the awards of Captive Service Professional of the Year and Captive Manager of the Year. With the awards coming in, Kari explains how transparency and ease of access work to set Blackwell apart from other captive solutions in the marketplace.

True Scripts's new Precision Care Plus Program looks to leverage pharmacogenomics (PGX) to determine how specific medications will metabolize wihtin patient's bodies. Chasity Matthews, Sr. Director of Growth and Partner Relationships, joins this week's show to discuss TrueScript's new program and share some additional, exciting happenings!

Everyday, on average, U.S. hospitals do inappropriate spine surgeries 50% of the time. Ryan Grant, Founder and CEO of Vori Health, joins the show this week to discuss how this frequency of inappropriate surgery suggests that we have a broken care model. He also provides his expertise on using evidence-based appropriate medicine to guide patients to their desired outcomes.

As private equity and hospitals have been buying up imaging chains, it has become increasingly difficult to find affordable imaging with costs increasing more than three-fold. However, this increase in cost impacts not only people's accesibility to imagaing; it has a profound impact on overall plan spend as well. This week, Cristin Dickerson, CEO of Green Imaging, joins the show to discuss how their solution provides needed access to imaging and the impact it can have on your plan.