Uninterrupted at the Inflection Point with Brian Urban and Saul Marquez

The biggest opportunity in healthcare today lies in honest, uninterrupted conversations between the people shaping payer and provider decisions.

In this intro episode of the Executive Uninterrupted Podcast, Brian Urban, a healthcare leader, advisor, and adjunct professor, explains why the payer–provider ecosystem has reached a true inflection point and why progress requires understanding the humans behind executive titles. Together with Saul Marquez, he explores long-standing friction points across reimbursement, contracting, value-based care, patient experience, and policy, while arguing that the system is not broken but functioning imperfectly. Brian reflects on how his experience across health plans, retail health, and enterprise organizations revealed the need for a space where executives can speak candidly about profit-and-loss accountability, community-level impact, and real-world constraints. The episode closes with their vision for an uninterrupted podcast format that challenges conventional thinking, highlights emerging executive roles shaping population health, and previews conversations with influential leaders across medicine, policy, and innovation.

Tune in and learn how raw executive insight can reshape healthcare strategy, collaboration, and the future of the ecosystem!

Resources:

• Connect with Brian Urban on LinkedIn here.
• Connect with Saul Marquez on LinkedIn here.
• Stay tuned for more episode on the Executive Uninterrupted podcast here.
• Find out more about Outcomes Rocket on LinkedIn.
• Visit the Outcomes Rocket website here.