# Scott Conard

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Take Two: EP438: Is It Mission and/or Margin? With John Lee, MD

A third of healthcare waste is someone else's profit. That profit buys a lot of influence — and it's one reason why doing the right thing for patients can get your face smashed against the wall inside a large healthcare organization. That's the real world Dr. John Lee is talking about in this episo…

How Margin Shoves Mission Off the Bus: A Primary Care Case Study, With Dr. Stan Schwartz

Northeast Oklahoma beat out Colorado, Oregon, and New York to win a landmark federal competition for the Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative. The program worked — emergency room visits dropped, hospitalizations declined, patients loved it, doctors loved it, and primary care physicians earned tens…

How to Run a High-Quality Hospital at 143% of Medicare, With Dr. Sam Flanders and Shane Cerone

Beaumont Hospital Royal Oak was nationally recognized in nine medical specialties, received top hospital awards for seven consecutive years, and charged 143% of Medicare. That combination — genuinely high quality and genuinely low price — is supposed to be impossible. Shane Cerone and Dr. Sam Fland…

Episode #217 Pairing Data that Matters with a Plan that Works with Scott Conard, Co-Founder and Partner, Converging Health

Decreasing cost. It’s the Holy Grail. The thing we all know must happen in order for healthcare to become sustainable and usable for the majority of Americans. We know data analytics help. They help to identify those who are at the highest risk and who are the highest cost. But, what if we were ab…

How Some Pretty Wild Medicare Fraud Sabotages ACOs and Also Independent Practices and Could Cost Plan Sponsors Such as Self-insured Employers a Lot of Zeros Downstream, With Brian Machut. (EP502)

How Medicare Fraud in Catheters and Skin Substitutes Sabotages ACO Shared Savings and Cost-Shifts to Self-Insured Employers, With Brian Machut (EP502) Why $3.5 Billion in Fake Catheters and an Even Bigger Skin Substitute Grift End Up Costing Self-Insured Employers Too. Episode 502. Hackers are us…

A Back-to-Basics Roadmap Through the Perverse Incentives to Advanced Primary Care, With Ryan Jacobs (EP504)

A Roadmap Through the Perverse Incentives Blocking Advanced Primary Care, With Ryan Jacobs (EP504) Why Evidence-Backed Primary Care Still Can't Scale, and a 3-Step Roadmap to Get Around It. Episode 504. Why isn't advanced primary care (APC) everywhere, if the evidence for it is this strong? Stace…

The Death of the "What Is Value" Guessing Game for Clinical and Plan Decision-Makers Ready to Move On, With Ahilan Sivaganesan, MD (EP505)

Time-Driven Costing and the Operative Value Index for Surgical Care, With Ahilan Sivaganesan, MD (EP505) Why "Value Equals Outcomes Over Cost" Doesn't Work Until You Can Actually Measure Both. Episode 505. What if the only way to know who's delivering high-value surgical care is to actually calcu…

The Perverse Incentive Trap Hidden Inside Value-Based Care — and What to Do About It. EP511

When Risk-Based Payment Becomes Its Own Upcoding Arms Race Medicare Advantage plans get paid more for sicker patients, which is why upcoding became a problem — and now health systems are upcoding visit complexity right back, with MA plans automatically downcoding in response. In this episode, Stac…

Revisiting Cunning Anticompetitive Hospital Contracts, With Brennan Bilberry - EP513

The Hospital Contract Playbook: Four Clauses That Turn Market Power Into Higher Prices Across the country, hospital systems have used their growing market power to write four specific contract terms into their deals with insurers — terms that all but guarantee higher prices for employers, unions, …

Cognitive Atrophy and Referral Incentives Breaking Primary Care, With Lisa Rosenbaum, MD (EP519)

Cognitive Atrophy and Referral Incentives Breaking Primary Care, With Lisa Rosenbaum, MD (EP519) Primary care physicians are leaving traditional practice for concierge medicine in visible numbers—and the question is whether that exodus is an unavoidable consequence of how the system is built, or s…