Working Healthcare

Listen now to uncover how Medicare Advantage plans can create costly barriers through restrictive networks, prior authorization, drug formularies and opaque coverage rules — and learn how your practice can protect patient access before, during and after the sale. In this episode of Working Healthcare, host Meredith Hirsh speaks with healthcare compliance and reimbursement expert Stephanie Allard of Stephanie Allard Consulting about Medicare Advantage, Original Medicare, Medigap, claim denials...

Listen to a doctor’s passionate case for protecting the physician-patient relationship and keeping care centered on people—not metrics, corporate targets or insurance barriers. On this episode of Working Healthcare, host Meredith Hirsh speaks with Dr. Kayvan Amini—an independent cardiologist, physician advocate and leader in organized medicine—about the forces reshaping American healthcare and what is at stake when physicians lose autonomy. Kayvan shares why independent medicine matters and w...

Shelly Starks knows the raw isolation that comes when healthcare leaves a patient with life-altering questions and no clear path forward. A breast cancer diagnosis in her 20s. More than 30 surgeries. Surgical menopause with little guidance and even less support. Today, she sits on the other side of the system, helping employers, carriers and brokers shape benefit strategies that influence access, premiums and patient choices. On this episode of Working Healthcare, host Meredith Hirsh sits dow...

Ann Monis knows how to build under pressure. She worked her way through college, tested out of courses to save tuition and carried that grit into healthcare. Today, she leads a growing behavioral health organization while raising two young sons and navigating life as a clinician, entrepreneur and CEO. In this episode of Working Healthcare, host Meredith Hirsh sits down with Ann for a candid conversation about leadership, motherhood, mental health and the business realities behind patient care...

Listen for clear guidance on perimenopause, menopause and life after menopause—and learn why women deserve support that goes far beyond “just deal with it.” In this episode of Working Healthcare, host Meredith Hirsh sits down with Maryon Stewart, a women’s health advocate and menopause expert, to challenge the silence, confusion and dismissal that surround perimenopause, menopause and life after menopause. Maryon brings four decades of experience and a fierce sense of justice to a conve...