Healthcare Trailblazers Podcast

Karoo Health CEO Ian Koons on Owning the Cardiology Stack, Building Trust, and Opening a Denver HQ

166 views · 1mo ago · 31:26

Ian Koons, co-founder and CEO of Karoo Health, joins Mendel Erlenwein on Healthcare Trailblazers fresh off a new funding round. Karoo started with value-based care for cardiac patients. Ian explains why that was only the entry point, and how the company plans to own the full cardiology stack across services, clinical care, and technology.

Topics: Karoo's strategy beyond value-based care · Why Karoo raised this round and who it brought on · What Karoo looks like in five years · The race to the patient and reaching unengaged patients · Embedding enrollment specialists at the point of care · Would the model work without humans?

CMS Is Changing How Healthcare Gets Paid | Jacob Shiff on ACCESS, AI & Value-Based Care

237 views · 1mo ago · 36:08

Guest: Jacob Shiff

What happens when healthcare providers get paid for outcomes instead of activities? In this episode of the Healthcare Trailblazers Podcast, we sit down with Jacob Shiff, Chief AI and Technology Officer at the CMS Innovation Center (CMMI), for an inside look at the CMS ACCESS Model and the thinking behind one of the most ambitious experiments in technology-enabled value-based care.

Topics: Jacob’s role at CMS and how ACCESS came to be · The three insights that led to ACCESS · Why technology follows healthcare’s financial incentives · Why fee-for-service limits technology-enabled care · The limitations of shared-savings models · ACCESS: paying for outcomes instead of activities

Dr. Eve Cunningham (Cadence) on the 2027 RPM Proposal, Agentic AI, and the Gray Wave

1.2K views · 2mo ago · 41:37

CMS has proposed sweeping changes to remote patient monitoring in the 2027 fee schedule — and the whole industry is doing the math in public. Dr. Eve Cunningham, CMO of Cadence, comes back on Healthcare Trailblazers to answer the question underneath all of it: is there actually an ROI on remote patient monitoring?

Topics: The 2027 proposal that guts RPM · The elephant: is there an ROI? · Cadence's receipts · Paid for activity, not outcomes · Paying landscapers to push lawnmowers · Where agentic AI actually breaks

RPM is getting shut down, here's what to do.

135 views · 3mo ago · 7:53

The 2027 CMS Proposed Rule Could Wipe Out Remote Patient Monitoring As We Know It The 2027 Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) proposed rule just dropped, and it includes two major changes that could reshape the entire Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) industry

The Caregiver Is the Patient | Jenna MG Makes the Case American Medicine Forgot

59 views · 3mo ago · 31:19

American healthcare is built around the physician. Jenna MG thinks that's the mistake. As CEO and co-founder of PocketRN — and a caregiver to her own mother — Jenna makes the case that in dementia and chronic care, the person you actually have to treat is the exhausted family caregiver. And that the missing piece isn't another doctor. It's a nurse who stays.

Topics: "I was about to give up" · Welcome — meet Jenna MG and PocketRN · What Medicare's GUIDE model actually is · The incentive problem: we treat the wrong person · Why she built it: caring for her own mother · "We don't say doctor you back to health"