# Cynthia Fisher

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4 Core Concepts to Buy or Deliver the Highest Value Healthcare — A Review With 14 Expert Voices (EP507)

4 Core Concepts to Buy or Deliver the Highest-Value Healthcare, A Review With 15 Experts (EP507) Buy Healthcare, Not Insurance: A Through-Line Review of the Four Concepts Behind High-Value Care. Episode 507. Stacey Richter pulls together clips from 15 past guests to lay out the four core concepts…

3 Kinds of Broker/EBC Rent-Seeking Payment Models—A Lawyer's Perspective, With Doug Aldeen. EP512

A Lawyer's Field Guide to Rent-Seeking Broker and EBC Payment Models Brokers and employee benefit consultants often get compensated in ways health plans never fully see — and even when the dollars are technically disclosed, the math can hide an enormous overcharge. In this episode, Stacey Richter …

Cynthia Fisher: The Economics Of Medical Care

Join Steve Moore as he speaks with Cynthia Fisher about the economics of presecriptions, the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, and more on WABC.

Beating Provider Network Pricing Games by Thinking About Buying Healthcare Like a Manufacturer Supply Chain, With John Quinn

John Quinn, founder and CEO of Wellnecity, joins Stacey Richter in episode 524 for an outtake from their conversation last fall on rethinking how self-insured employers build their provider networks. Rather than treating the network as one big, undifferentiated system, Quinn argues employers should…

Medical Bills for Grown-Ups

Few things say “welcome to adulthood” quite like opening a medical bill and realizing you have absolutely no idea what you're looking at. There are billing codes, insurance adjustments, deductibles, coinsurance, and somehow a procedure that costs one amount on one line costs something completely di…

It Doesn't Have to Be This Way: The 2026 Rise Awards

Meg Didier was born with half a working heart. When she talks about three years, she doesn't mean a regulatory timeline. She means whether she's there for her daughter's kindergarten graduation, and whether she can put off a transplant a little longer. Three years is how much she says one policy id…

Level Funding Is Self-funding: 5 Avoidable Contract Risks, With Frank Pennachio

Level-Funded Health Plan Risks: ERISA Contract Traps, Stop-Loss Gaps, and Surplus Fine Print. Episode 533. An employer with a fully insured plan told Stacey Richter his renewal this year was 69% — his broker negotiated it down to 50%, which she's not sure she'd classify as a victory. Level funding…