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Most healthcare decisions that shape your life never make headlines. The Policy Stack, hosted by Lisa Bari, takes you inside the rooms where those decisions are made, introducing you to the leaders, policymakers, and innovators shaping how American healthcare works. Each episode unpacks the laws, regulations, funding streams, and operational frameworks that must align for any policy to succeed.
We go beyond what policies are to reveal how they are implemented, why they succeed or fail, and who holds the real levers of change.
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47 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
13 episodes
since Aug. 11, 2025
episodic
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The CMS Innovation Center has run payment experiments for 15 years. Most paid providers for activity: enrolling patients, filing reports, hitting process measures. At the end of 2025, CMS launched a model that changes the unit of payment itself. It’s called CMS ACCESS, and it pays for outcomes. Did…
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Medicaid covers more than 70 million people, and last year it went through the largest change to its financing in its history. The 2025 reconciliation law cut an estimated $911 billion in federal Medicaid spending over ten years, added work requirements, shortened eligibility checks to every six mo…
79% of hospitals are running AI tools built by their EHR vendor. Not because those tools are necessarily the best, but because the structural advantages of staying in suite make it the easier choice every single time.
In this episode of The Policy Stack, taken from Innovaccer's Context 2026 Healthc…
Why does almost 80% of America’s healthcare spend go to treating chronic disease while prevention barely receives a fraction of the $5 trillion health budget?
On this episode of The Policy Stack, Lisa Bari tries to get to the root of the problem with Dr. Anand Parekh, Chief Health Policy Officer at…
Brian Janssen reflects on running Medicare operations at WPS Health Solutions, processing 130+ million claims annually through an infrastructure that many healthcare professionals don't know exists. He shares why MACs are "the largest backbone of processing in the country that the healthcare world …
Liza Health’s Duncan Reece reflects on decades in value-based care, from Medicare Health Support's failure to today's explosion of CMMI models launching simultaneously. He shares why MSSP's $10 billion in savings gets unfairly criticized against Medicare's $1.2 trillion spend, how Iora built its ow…
Kristen Valdes from b.well reflects on building CMS's voluntary Health Technology Ecosystem framework after discovering that, despite a decade of interoperability policy, live demos showed only 1 out of 30+ providers could return data automatically. She shares lessons on community organizing when 5…
Most healthcare decisions happen far from the headlines. The Policy Stack, hosted by Lisa Bari, reveals the people and processes shaping how American healthcare really works. From state leaders to industry innovators, each episode examines the laws, funding, and political realities behind the polic…
In this live episode from Innovaccer’s Mini-Xccelerate conference in DC, Blair Childs and Dave Johnson examine the sweeping policy and market shifts transforming U.S. healthcare. They discuss the move from government-designed systems toward market accountability, how “liberating data” is key to re…
Lisa Bari speaks with Timi Leslie about implementing California's groundbreaking data exchange framework, where healthcare organizations must share data across sectors for the first time. Timi shares lessons from her career in health IT policy, about why technical interoperability is just the begin…
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