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In this episode Ron chats with Uli K. Chettipally, MD., MPH. Uli is an emergency physician, researcher, author, speaker, and an innovator. He is passionate about delivering artificial intelligence-enabled solutions to physicians to improve patient outcomes. His work with CREST Network in developing a clinical decision support platform earned him the Pioneer award for innovation from Kaiser Permanente. He also received the Morris F. Collin award for his research with his team from The Permanente Medical Group. He is the author of the book, “Punish the Machine! The Promise of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare”. To connect with Dr. Chettipally and learn more about his work, visit www.InnovatorMD.com

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In this episode Ron talks to Michael Berg. Michael is the President and co-founder of Ancillary Medical Solutions. He has spent 13 years in the medical sector, 10 in medical ancillaries. He is also an expert in medical ancillaries, publisher of the Comprehensive Medical Ancillary Catalog with 50+ ancillary verticals.

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In this episode Ron talks to Ralph Weber Ralph Weber, REBC, CLU, GBA, Founder and President, MediBid Inc. Ralph has been a Healthcare Consultant since 1996 working primarily in the Canadian and US Markets. By 2009 Weber saw healthcare payers reaching the saturation point and started developing cost containment concepts to reduce healthcare spending for employers. Later that hear Weber founded MediBid Inc, with a group of physician investors. Being ahead of the market allowed development of concepts and perfecting of marketing strategies as well as tactical methods to increase competition among bidders. Weber is a frequent speaker at medical association meetings as well as free market medical events, and health underwriter and actuary conventions. Allowing doctors and hospitals in the US as well as 15 other countries to compete on cost and quality results in decreasing healthcare costs by 38%, while improving quality and outcomes. Weber has assisted in writing healthcare policy for several state and federal politicians, and has appeared on Fox Business News, NBC, ABC, CBS, NY Times, CNN, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and well as several books and trade journals. Weber has written 3 books on healthcare, including “RIGGED: How Insurance Ruined Healthcare”, and has appeared on many TV and radio shows and podcasts.

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In this episode Ron chats with Kristine Ashcraft, B.S., MBA. Kristine is a molecular biologist by training and is CEO and founder of YouScript. She has worked in the precision medicine space since 2000 and was recently named one of the 25 leading voices in precision medicine. Kristine has authored multiple publications on the clinical and economic benefits of pharmacogenomic testing including one lauded as one of the most influential publications at an AMIA meeting. She has been interviewed by numerous media outlets including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and NBC Nightly News and has spoken at SXSW, ASHG, and numerous precision medicine Conferences. She is committed to being a catalyst in the adoption of precision medicine.

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In this episode on chats with David Chung. David is the USA Head of Carewell Lepu. A patient turned AI technologist. Not a doctor or scientist. Just an average American citizen with an above average appetite on fixing the healthcare system. As a Penn State engineering major, David has a keen sense of science, technology and logic. Call him a mixed bag, an engineer that worked in the industrial, service, IT, legal and healthcare industry. A global citizen knowledge sponge. He hungers for the latest news and science articles from all over the world. At the age of 3, he received a blood transfusion procedure that saved his life. With a sister that suffers from congenital heart disease and mild arrhythmia event in the past himself. David is passionate on learning the possibility of AI to eradicate heart diseases, with aspiration to collaborate innovators from all over the globe, together solving healthcare problems for all corners of the world.

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In this episode Ron talks to Dr. Cristin Dickerson. Cristin is the founder of Green Imaging. She initially practiced at Diagnostic Clinic of Houston where she served as two-term president of the 50 physician clinic and was a self funded employer. She is currently practice as a partner in Radiology Group of Houston at Medical Clinic of Houston (Sunset Clinic).

She founded Green Imaging in 2012 to provide affordable, high-quality medical imaging for uninsured and high deductible patients in Houston and rapidly expanded the company to provide services nationally for self funded employers and healthcare marketplaces. She loves being able to provide quality services to patients who often otherwise couldn’t afford them and providing significant imaging cost savings to patients with healthcare coverage and to their employers without compromising quality. She is co-founder of the Houston and Dallas Free Market Medical Association chapters. She is on the national advisory board of the Association of Independent Doctors.

Green Imaging has won the Baylor University Family Business award, a Healthcare Innovation award, and a Health Value Spotlight Award at the World Health Care Congress and she received a Houston Validation Institute.

She is passionate about spreading the word that patients and physicians and employers do have great new nontraditional health care coverage options in the emerging transparent healthcare market.

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In this episode Ron chats with Dr. Arlen Meyers. Arlen is an emeritus professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, a lecturer at the University of Colorado Denver Business School and President and CEO of the Society of Physician Entrepreneurs at www.sopenet.org

Here they discuss the world of entrepreneurs in medicine.

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In this episode Ron chats with Mike Bechtol. Mike is the Director of Membership for Redirect Health. He drives initiatives to educate employers and individuals nationwide about Redirect Health’s simple and affordable way of doing healthcare. He also innovates new processes and program benefits to bring more value to members, ensuring they have a positive healthcare experience and that all needs are met.

Mike deeply understands the relationship between care and cost, especially the fact that quality care can and should be affordable. This belief is what drives him to motivate his team of enrollment specialists to ensure the needs of business owners and their people are put first – and not the other way around. Since joining Redirect Health in 2015, Mike has helped the team put members at the epicenter of operations, thereby allowing greater efficiency, streamlining and affordability. His efforts have helped the company expand membership nationwide.

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In this episode Ron chats with Dr. Clint Flanagan. Clint is Board Certified in Family Medicine and has over 14 years experience as an ER physician and maintains certificates in Advanced Cardiac and Advanced Trauma Life Support. He completed medical school at the University of Nebraska Medical Center then went on to residency at St Mary’s Family Medicine Program in Grand Junction, Colorado. He’s a diplomate of the American Academy of Family Physicians. Dr. Flanagan is the founder of Nextera Healthcare, the first Direct Primary Care company in Colorado and has been a local Primary Care physician and Emergency Medicine physician for over a decade.

Dr. Flanagan is a recognized leader in healthcare and was named a “Top 20 Who’s Who in Direct Primary Care in the US” and was invited to the White House to discuss the future of healthcare. He is a founding member and is currently serving on the steering committee of the Direct Primary Care Coalition in Washington DC. Dr. Flanagan was also instrumental in helping pass the Direct Primary Health Care Services Law in Colorado and the Direct Primary Care Agreement Act in Nebraska through his testimony and participation.

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In this episode Ron chats with Dr. Josh Umbehr. Josh is the founder of Atlas MD. Atlas MD is a Direct Primary Care Clinic that represents his ideal medical practice where he is able to shrug off the burdens and restrictions of government and insurance regulation so he can focus solely on patients and their needs.

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