December 11, 2025 • 24 mins
Sen Siva, MD, is the Chief Executive Officer for MedOne Healthcare Partners and has more than 15 years of medical experience. In his role as CEO, he oversees more than 160 clinicians across numerous care sites, partners with hospital and practice leaders to develop and implement strategic initiatives and fosters a collaborative environment in which MedOne can deliver on its mission to make healthcare better. Prior to his current role, Sen served as medical director at Genesis Hospital in Zanesville, Select Specialty Hospital in Columbus, and OhioHealth Rehabilitation Hospital in Columbus. He earned his Doctor of Medicine at St. George’s University School of Medicine and completed his internal medicine residency at Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine. Fun fact: Sen played competitive tennis growing up, including on his college team at Tufts University, and continues to play recreationally.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Columbus in Central Ohio have a rich history of companies
being headquartered here, everything from technology, manufacturing, retail, insurance, and more.
But what about the leaders behind these companies? What makes
them tick? How do they get their start? This is
where you get to meet the captain of the ship.
Welcome to CEOs You Should Know and iHeartMedia Columbus Podcast.
Welcome back to another episode of CEOs You Should Know
(00:23):
and iHeartMedia Columbus Podcast. I'm your host, Boxer, and this
week we are taking you into the world of medicine,
specifically med one Healthcare Partners. It's a team of physicians,
advanced practice clinicians, and administrative staff who are united by
a single purpose to make healthcare better.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Now, that's what you find when you go to their website.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
But we couldn't think of anyone better than to describe
it and explain it better than doctor sen Siva. Who's
with us right now, Who's the CEO? Hey, Welcome to
the episode of CEOs You Should Know. Thank you for
being our guest this week.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Good morning, thanks for having me so in a nutshell.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
No, I just kind of described in general what med
one Healthcare Partners.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Is, But how would you describe it to people that ask.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Med one is an innovative physician knowned medical practice that's
been around for twenty five years. I had the good
fortune of joining med one thirteen years ago after starting
my career medical career in Dayton, Ohio. My wife got
an opportunity in Columbus which brought me to med one
and to Columbus and found that my career really took
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off as far as being more inspired as far as
what I could do for patients and for health care.
Med one really thinks about physician engagement on a level
that is very different from what I've seen in any
other practice. At our practice, our physicians are owners and
because of that, they really think about ways in which
they can elevate healthcare outside of just the bedside. Most
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of our physicians go on to take elevated roles even
within our organization, partnering with our partner health hospitals and
health systems as well, coming up with different clinical leadership
opportunities as well for our group and for our health
system partners.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Doctor Siva, There's so much to get into with you
on this episode, but you had mentioned a little bit earlier.
Med one is owned by the employees. How big of
a difference is that versus a company that's publicly traded
for example.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Sure, so I would say that in my previous experiences
and maybe even talking to some colleagues who have not
experienced what we have at MED one, there's a level
of disengagement. I feel that other providers sometimes feel in
that they don't necessarily always feel heard as first line providers,
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frontline providers at our different hospitals and other facilities, we
definitely have a different perspective as what as far as
what we as providers can be doing for our patients
and for healthcare in general. And I met one and
we provide that platform for our providers to really be
able to speak up and to be able to impact
care on a level of that I think other organizations
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maybe don't have.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Yeah, doctor s And Siva is with a CEO of
Med one Healthcare Partners. Doctor Siva, Let's dive into a
little bit more about you and then we'll get back
to Med one. Tell us about yourself, born raised, Did
you always want to be a doctor?
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Yeah? Born and raised in New York. Staten Island, New
York is home.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
You lost your accent?
Speaker 3 (03:33):
I did I did, did my high school there and
then went on to do college in Boston at Toughs University. Later,
I went to medical school at Saint George's University and
met my wife there. She's from California, who asked who out?
I think I asked.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Riveting questions.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Yeah. After we got married, we couldn't figure out which
coast we wanted to go to, so kind of looked
at the map and was like, well, let's just go
somewhere in between, and ended up in Dayton, Ohio. And
that's where both of us trained at Wright State University.
Were there for three years and subsequently worked in Dayton
for about a year year and a half, and my
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wife subsequently got a job at Ohio State, which is
where it brought us to Columbus.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Yeah, that's a big deal. I mean, Ohio State comes calling. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Never thought in a million years that Columbus would become home.
But we had our first daughter, started to make friends,
and it just became just a wonderful community that we
really associated with. In fact, even other family members started
to move to Columbus from the coast as they become
became believers, as well as far as the Midwestern hospitality,
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and so yeah, that's kind of my story as far
as where I was born and what brought me to Columbus.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Doctor Siva.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Isn't it funny how like you, I was born and
raised in Minnesota, but you come to Columbus usually it's
for a job, never been here, not from here, and
you think, oh, I'll give it a couple of years,
and it sucks you in?
Speaker 2 (05:11):
It does it?
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Does? I remember speaking to a colleague when I was
first in Dayton who was from Cleveland, and he's like,
you guys are never leaving a lot. And yeah, at
that time, we were convinced that we were just going
to do our training in Dayton and then probably go
back to one of the two coasts. But like I said,
Ohio became home. And yeah, almost twenty years later, we're
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still here.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Well, congratulations, I'm glad that you decided to stay, you
and your wife and now your family.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
So what kind of doctor, by the way, are you?
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Yeah? So I trained in internal medicine, okay, and my
focus within internal and medicine has been hospital medicine. Hospital
medicine is a field that really started in the mid
to late nineteen nineties, essentially as I tried to explain
in a simple manner, it's hospitalists are physicians who kind
of replace primary care providers, but in the hospital setting.
(06:06):
Many years ago, it was common for your general practitioner
primary care provider to see their patients in the office setting,
but then if and when those patients got hospitalized, they
would also go to the hospital check in on those patients. Well,
there's definitely continuity patient continuity, which is an advantage of
having a system like that, but there's a lot of
inefficiencies that come with that as well. For example, if
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docs are seeing their patients in the office setting and
then having to run to the hospital and then go
back to their office setting, they're just not able to
schedule as many appointments, or they may not be as
responsive to patient needs or nursing needs as well, and
so hospital medicine was kind of born for that reason.
I really enjoy hospital medicine because there is kind of
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this quick gratification if you will, well, you've got patients
who come in really really sick to the hospital, were
able to develop a rapport with them, come up with
a diagnosed treatment plan, and more often than not, within
three to five days, they're feeling better and able to
get them home.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
So, doctor, do you work closely with that family doctor
then once they get to you.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Is that kind of how it works?
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Absolutely, So that's one of the things that I think
med one has always done it a great job of
as well. Documentation is so key in what we do
as medical providers, and we definitely put a significant amount
of focus on ensuring that we really document what's happening
with the patient so that once we do discharge that
patient back to their home or to a post acute facility,
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that primary care provider has a really solid understanding of
what happened, what changed, and what needs to be followed
up on. And so yes, we do make sure that
we have a really open line of communication with primary
care doctors.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Doctor Sensiva is with us.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
He is the CEO of med one Healthcare Partners. So
when when did you decide I want to get into management,
I want to climb that ladder.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
I don't know if I ever decided to go. Yeah,
I'm still trying to figure it out. It's funny. When
I joined med one back in twenty twelve, we were
a much smaller organization. At that time. We were going
through a transition where the original founders of the organization,
both a doc and an engineer, we're transitioning out of
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their positions as owners of the organization. And there were
seventeen physicians at the time who decided to essentially purchase
MED one. We had seventeen docks and one administrator, and
it was essentially on us as the seventeen docks to
make sure that we're going to be able to survive
and then thrive as an organization. And there were a
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few of us who were definitely tagged, if you will,
as potential leaders, and responsibilities just started coming my way,
most of them being clinical leadership opportunities, meaning focusing on
things like patient quality metric and safety metrics and such,
working with some of our hospital partners to ensure that
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different patient outcomes were being met. But as a physician
owned organization, there's also a business side to it, and
that's something that I think I just started to learn
organically as we started in twenty twelve. We developed a
board within our organization, and I guess I could say
I've had the pleasure of being on the board many
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times over over the last thirteen years, but I've learned
a lot, and I think just through that organic learning
process was asked to take on more and more, and yeah,
feel very privileged to be in this role now.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
It seems like well with any industry, but especially healthcare medicine,
it's always changing.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Of course, you have progress too.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
What is the most difficult thing to have to get
your hands around or take the bull by the horns
when it comes to what you do in the healthcare?
Speaker 3 (10:00):
I think things are always changing. Yeah, but I think
that's part of what makes it fun. To be honest,
healthcare is hard, but I find that incredibly rewarding to
be able to try to figure out kind of on
the fly what we need to do to ultimately take
care of that patient, because you know, I think by
and large, all of us who get into this field,
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that's what we really want to do, is make sure
that we're taking care of taking great care of patients.
There's so many different regulations that are frequently changing. Drug
therapies are frequently changing. Treatment therapies as far as surgical
options and such are frequently changing. So staying up up
to date with that literature can be a bit of
a challenge, I bad, But again, I think just being
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agile frequently, just trying to learn and trying to just
be up the best healthcare provider I can be is
really what gets me up every morning.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Now.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
I don't know if I would have just a regular
average Joe would have access to things that you have
access to, But I'm curious, where do you go to
stay up on things? What publications, what do you read?
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Gosh, there's so many new England Journal of Medicine cares
up today. There's so many online resources. When I started
my career, we actually had books, I know. So I
still have a couple of bookshelves at home with some
obnoxiously large textbooks that every now and then show to
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my kids.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Yeah, I bet one of these data.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
But a lot of it's there's different online resources that
provide great up to date information with as far as
what's changing, what new guidelines are, and so that's a
frequent point of reference for me. Med One has internal
educational programs as well, which has been I think incredibly
helpful for me. But I know our team as well.
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There's a few of us on our team I would
say myself not included necessarily, who really enjoy diving into
the different medical literature. And then in turn, we provide
best practices to our team that we're able to distribute
and just make sure that we're consistently providing the highest
level of care.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
What's your leadership style?
Speaker 1 (12:10):
You seem like a guy who's pretty easy going, But
what is it like when you have to put the
CEO hat on.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
I don't get nervous too often. Yeah, I think that.
I like to think I'm a pretty calm, collected person.
But I'm confident as well, and I'd like to think
that shows. I think that one of the biggest things
for me is just building trust. I've been with the
organization now for like I said, thirteen years. I've been
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around the block a while. I try to treat my
colleagues the same way that I want to be treated,
and I think that's gone a long way as far
as just the different roles that have come my way
over these last decade plus. People trust me for the
most part, and I think because of that, I've been
able to kind of had the privilege of being in
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the CEO role now.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Yeah, well, said doctor Sen. Doctor Sen SIV is with us.
He's the CEO of med one Healthcare Partners. Look, I
don't know what you can say, but I know you're
a human.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
You also have health insurance.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
So I'm sure you see and hear this all the time.
I remember as a kid the struggle was always real
with healthcare. Actually I didn't have health insurance growing now,
we lived on a farm, couldn't afford it. But now
that seems to be topic a all the time, is
affordable health care health insurance? Is that always going to
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be a struggle or a goal to make health care better?
Especially when it comes to insurance. There just always seems
to be the struggle doctor, between health care facilities and
then insurance companies.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
I don't have a great answer to that other than
that Unfortunately, you're right. It's been a challenge for as
long as I've been in medicine, I know many years
before that as well, and I expect that it's going
to be our problem or a challenge for us as
a country, to be honest, I think for many years
to come. We have our government payers like Medicare and Medicaid,
commercial pairs which include many different organizations, all of which
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are I think you're trying to do what's best for
the American patient, if you will. But with that said,
I think because there's so many distinct organizations that provide
insurance coverage, there's not necessarily alignment, and I think that's
part of what creates a lot of the challenges that
we face as a country to be honest with just
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pair coverage and who's covering what and all of that.
I know, one of the things I personally have always
loved about hospital medicine is that we don't even ask
that question as providers because we just take care of
any patient who comes to the hospital.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Amazing.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Now, as we branched into other service lines like primary
care and others, that becomes certainly something that we're going
to have to dive into a lot more and managed differently.
But with that said, you know, I think that from
the proprietor perspective, we just want to take care of people.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Where are we going in the world of medicine and technology?
What's next? We saw during the pandemic h there were
a lot of you know, virtual through screens. Are we
going to see more of that? What do you see
for the future?
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Yeah, So, I think when I started my career, innovation
was largely linked with procedures, new surgical techniques, less invasive techniques,
you know, whether it be laparoscopic techniques, robotic techniques, even
open heart surgeries, you know, although they're still done, there's
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lots of different catheter type cathter type procedures that are
done now which are less invasive. Patients are able to
go home quicker. Surgical procedures are being done less and
less in the hospital now and more in outpatient centers
like ambulatory surgery centers. I'd say one of the things
we're seeing now as far as innovation in medicine is
drug therapies with all kinds of different drug therapies which
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are novel like the GLP ones is definitely becoming more
of a commonly prescribed medication, and definitely see a lot
of other infusions and such that I expect will become
part of the innovative techniques and practices that we see
in medicine moving forward. Of course, there's AI as well,
which we're seeing a ton in what in primary care,
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but then other aspects of medicine as well. It's exciting
to see that, as I mentioned earlier, we are going
to be starting a primary care practice in just a
couple of months and see some really neat ways to
leverage AI so that we're working smarter.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
I'm so glad you brought up AI because that was
going to be what I was going to ask you
about next. Does it before even AI burst in on
the scene. I would imagine you heard a lot from
patients that would google something and then they would probably
ad or another doctor, well, I google this, and this
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is how they said to take.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Care of it.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Well, now you're dealing with AI, which is I think
Mady would argue, is much more accurate accurate than just
googling something. But what do you say to someone that
there's quite a few that are now using just AI
to figure out what's wrong with them.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
It's an interesting dilemma at times because one of the
things that I definitely encourage patients to do, just like providers,
is be engaged. I think is really important that patients
are engaged in their care because the more they know,
the more questions they ask. But then hopefully the more
stuff that they are to feedback as well and to
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the expertise of providers, ultimately they're going to have better
care and feel better about just their overall health. So
I think leveraging AI, whether it's patients or providers is important.
It's here to stay. I think we all have to
kind of teach each other. It's funny sometimes, you know.
I even learned things, you know, in talking to patients
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about different therapies that they've read about and other colleagues
as well through AI and through other types of online searches.
So I think we all win when we're all educating
one another.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Yeah, no, agreed.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Do you see some type of AI assistance to a
doctor with a patient down the road?
Speaker 2 (18:24):
How does that work? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (18:25):
So one of the things that I'm really excited about,
and we're already seeing this in a lot of ambulatory spaces,
is using AI, just as we're talking now, as almost
a transcription service. Like I said earlier, documentation is so
important to what we do in the medical field, and
that takes time and can also be distracting. For example
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of you know, if I was talking to a patient
and I was just looking at a computer typing during
that conversation, right, it becomes very impersonal very quickly, and
I think can lead to distrust and then potitionally even
non compliance from that. Ultimately maybe even an outcome that
neither one of us wanted. The use of AI with
something called ambient listening now allows for providers to literally
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just sit and talk to their patients and the conversation
is essentially recorded and transcribed in real time. It's a
huge patient sorry, provider satisfier as well. There's this kind
of a funny term in medicine that called pajama time.
It's very common for providers after a long day of
seeing patients that have to go home later in the
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evening and spend time in front of the computer documenting
all the different notes that they had done earlier in
the day.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
I didn't know this, okay.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
And so that can be a cause or burnout, sometimes
even some inaccuracies with the documentation because it's been several
hours since that patient was seen, sometimes even several days.
And so just eliminating that I think has led to
a lot more just provider satisfaction as well.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Doctor, would you if you and we're just talking one
industry here, but would you agree that AI there's always
this sphere. AI is going to take over the world
and all these jobs. It's really there if anything else
to benefit and help. I guess that person, like a doctor,
focus more on what they need to focus on, right yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
I mean, this is a hot topic in medicine right now,
and there are certainly some who fear that AI is
going to replace physicians.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
But how do you feel about that.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
I don't think that that's the case. I think that
physicians who use AI replace physicians who don't, So it's
here to stay. It's very I think it's going to
be critical to how we practice in the future, but
I definitely don't see it replacing what I do.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Yeah, and if I'm a doctor, I'd be pretty offended to, like, Hey,
you did no schooling. Someone fed you all this info.
I did twelve years of schooling for this, Come on now. Also,
a little birdie told me that you're very excellent tennis.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Pretty good at it. I've I started playing when I
was ten years old and just really got into it
as a youngster, played throughout high school and then played
on my college team as well. Still try to play
pretty regularly, play in a local league here in Columbus,
and it's a great form of exercise. Yeah, a great
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group of folks that I get to play with, and
just the last couple of years got my daughter into
it as well. So it's been fun to be able
to kind of pass that on, and on the weekends
we get out of the courts and are able to
hit together, which is fun.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Side note, possible to get some advice from you about
getting a daughter lessons for tennis, Meaning I have a
four year old. I don't want her to go the
typical route of unless she loves it, of course, soccer, whatever, basketball.
But a neighbor told me, hey, you might want to
get your kids into something they could get not necessarily
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an easier scholarship, but a tennis scholarship at college someday.
So what's a good age to get them into tennis?
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Would you say?
Speaker 3 (22:03):
I'd say are probably around ten twelve years old.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Probably she's got some time.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
She's got some time. Yeah, I was lucky when I
was a kid. My folks had exposed me with lots
of different sports. I'd say soccer and tennis were probably
the two that I enjoy the most, and my parents
are at one point we're just like, hey, you've got
to choose one because we can't drive it all these
places all the time. So tennis is what I landed on.
But yeah, I think ten twelve years old is probably
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a good good age group to try to get people started.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
All right, doctors, we racked up wrap up here. I
want to ask you what is the future of med one.
What's on the horizon for us to know?
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Yeah, So med one started as med one Hospital Physicians,
and a few years ago, as we were becoming a
larger organization expanding outside of the hospital, we went through
a rebranding and became med one Healthcare Partners. We are
in just a couple of months going to be starting
our premier primary care program, which I'm incredibly excited about
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because it's going to lead to a different level of
connectivity that med one can offer to our patients and
to the community.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
How does that look? What does that look like? So
we're gonna be.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Able to not just take care of patients in the hospital,
but take care of patients in their primary care setting
and also in the post acute facilities if and when
patients get discharged to nursing facilities and such and so
in every phase of care, patients are going to feel
connected to their provider. There's always going to be a smooth,
smooth handoff from one place, one side of care to
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the next. And so I'm super excited about what we're
going to be able to offer to the community moving
forward with that level of connectivity.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
And for those that would like more on med one,
where's a good place to go.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Your social is your.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Website medwehp dot com and keep an eye out for
a new and improved website.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Fantastic Well, Doctor's Senseva, really appreciate your time. I know
you're probably really really busy. Congrats on all your success.
Thank you for deciding that Columbus is going to be
home for you and your family, and hope to have
you back on really soon, so take care, Thank you,
appreciate the time. CEOs You Should Know is hosted and
produced by Brandon Boxer, a production of iHeartMedia Columbus
Columbus in Central Ohio have a rich history of companies
being headquartered here, everything from technology, manufacturing, retail, insurance, and more.
But what about the leaders behind these companies? What makes
them tick? How do they get their start? This is
where you get to meet the captain of the ship.
Welcome to CEOs You Should Know and iHeartMedia Columbus Podcast.
Welcome back to another episode of CEOs You Should Know
(00:23):
and iHeartMedia Columbus Podcast. I'm your host, Boxer, and this
week we are taking you into the world of medicine,
specifically med one Healthcare Partners. It's a team of physicians,
advanced practice clinicians, and administrative staff who are united by
a single purpose to make healthcare better.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Now, that's what you find when you go to their website.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
But we couldn't think of anyone better than to describe
it and explain it better than doctor sen Siva. Who's
with us right now, Who's the CEO? Hey, Welcome to
the episode of CEOs You Should Know. Thank you for
being our guest this week.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Good morning, thanks for having me so in a nutshell.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
No, I just kind of described in general what med
one Healthcare Partners.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Is, But how would you describe it to people that ask.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Med one is an innovative physician knowned medical practice that's
been around for twenty five years. I had the good
fortune of joining med one thirteen years ago after starting
my career medical career in Dayton, Ohio. My wife got
an opportunity in Columbus which brought me to med one
and to Columbus and found that my career really took
(01:31):
off as far as being more inspired as far as
what I could do for patients and for health care.
Med one really thinks about physician engagement on a level
that is very different from what I've seen in any
other practice. At our practice, our physicians are owners and
because of that, they really think about ways in which
they can elevate healthcare outside of just the bedside. Most
(01:55):
of our physicians go on to take elevated roles even
within our organization, partnering with our partner health hospitals and
health systems as well, coming up with different clinical leadership
opportunities as well for our group and for our health
system partners.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Doctor Siva, There's so much to get into with you
on this episode, but you had mentioned a little bit earlier.
Med one is owned by the employees. How big of
a difference is that versus a company that's publicly traded
for example.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Sure, so I would say that in my previous experiences
and maybe even talking to some colleagues who have not
experienced what we have at MED one, there's a level
of disengagement. I feel that other providers sometimes feel in
that they don't necessarily always feel heard as first line providers,
(02:46):
frontline providers at our different hospitals and other facilities, we
definitely have a different perspective as what as far as
what we as providers can be doing for our patients
and for healthcare in general. And I met one and
we provide that platform for our providers to really be
able to speak up and to be able to impact
care on a level of that I think other organizations
(03:10):
maybe don't have.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Yeah, doctor s And Siva is with a CEO of
Med one Healthcare Partners. Doctor Siva, Let's dive into a
little bit more about you and then we'll get back
to Med one. Tell us about yourself, born raised, Did
you always want to be a doctor?
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Yeah? Born and raised in New York. Staten Island, New
York is home.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
You lost your accent?
Speaker 3 (03:33):
I did I did, did my high school there and
then went on to do college in Boston at Toughs University. Later,
I went to medical school at Saint George's University and
met my wife there. She's from California, who asked who out?
I think I asked.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Riveting questions.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Yeah. After we got married, we couldn't figure out which
coast we wanted to go to, so kind of looked
at the map and was like, well, let's just go
somewhere in between, and ended up in Dayton, Ohio. And
that's where both of us trained at Wright State University.
Were there for three years and subsequently worked in Dayton
for about a year year and a half, and my
(04:16):
wife subsequently got a job at Ohio State, which is
where it brought us to Columbus.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Yeah, that's a big deal. I mean, Ohio State comes calling. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Never thought in a million years that Columbus would become home.
But we had our first daughter, started to make friends,
and it just became just a wonderful community that we
really associated with. In fact, even other family members started
to move to Columbus from the coast as they become
became believers, as well as far as the Midwestern hospitality,
(04:48):
and so yeah, that's kind of my story as far
as where I was born and what brought me to Columbus.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Doctor Siva.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Isn't it funny how like you, I was born and
raised in Minnesota, but you come to Columbus usually it's
for a job, never been here, not from here, and
you think, oh, I'll give it a couple of years,
and it sucks you in?
Speaker 2 (05:11):
It does it?
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Does? I remember speaking to a colleague when I was
first in Dayton who was from Cleveland, and he's like,
you guys are never leaving a lot. And yeah, at
that time, we were convinced that we were just going
to do our training in Dayton and then probably go
back to one of the two coasts. But like I said,
Ohio became home. And yeah, almost twenty years later, we're
(05:35):
still here.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Well, congratulations, I'm glad that you decided to stay, you
and your wife and now your family.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
So what kind of doctor, by the way, are you?
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Yeah? So I trained in internal medicine, okay, and my
focus within internal and medicine has been hospital medicine. Hospital
medicine is a field that really started in the mid
to late nineteen nineties, essentially as I tried to explain
in a simple manner, it's hospitalists are physicians who kind
of replace primary care providers, but in the hospital setting.
(06:06):
Many years ago, it was common for your general practitioner
primary care provider to see their patients in the office setting,
but then if and when those patients got hospitalized, they
would also go to the hospital check in on those patients. Well,
there's definitely continuity patient continuity, which is an advantage of
having a system like that, but there's a lot of
inefficiencies that come with that as well. For example, if
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docs are seeing their patients in the office setting and
then having to run to the hospital and then go
back to their office setting, they're just not able to
schedule as many appointments, or they may not be as
responsive to patient needs or nursing needs as well, and
so hospital medicine was kind of born for that reason.
I really enjoy hospital medicine because there is kind of
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this quick gratification if you will, well, you've got patients
who come in really really sick to the hospital, were
able to develop a rapport with them, come up with
a diagnosed treatment plan, and more often than not, within
three to five days, they're feeling better and able to
get them home.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
So, doctor, do you work closely with that family doctor
then once they get to you.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Is that kind of how it works?
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Absolutely, So that's one of the things that I think
med one has always done it a great job of
as well. Documentation is so key in what we do
as medical providers, and we definitely put a significant amount
of focus on ensuring that we really document what's happening
with the patient so that once we do discharge that
patient back to their home or to a post acute facility,
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that primary care provider has a really solid understanding of
what happened, what changed, and what needs to be followed
up on. And so yes, we do make sure that
we have a really open line of communication with primary
care doctors.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Doctor Sensiva is with us.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
He is the CEO of med one Healthcare Partners. So
when when did you decide I want to get into management,
I want to climb that ladder.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
I don't know if I ever decided to go. Yeah,
I'm still trying to figure it out. It's funny. When
I joined med one back in twenty twelve, we were
a much smaller organization. At that time. We were going
through a transition where the original founders of the organization,
both a doc and an engineer, we're transitioning out of
(08:23):
their positions as owners of the organization. And there were
seventeen physicians at the time who decided to essentially purchase
MED one. We had seventeen docks and one administrator, and
it was essentially on us as the seventeen docks to
make sure that we're going to be able to survive
and then thrive as an organization. And there were a
(08:43):
few of us who were definitely tagged, if you will,
as potential leaders, and responsibilities just started coming my way,
most of them being clinical leadership opportunities, meaning focusing on
things like patient quality metric and safety metrics and such,
working with some of our hospital partners to ensure that
(09:06):
different patient outcomes were being met. But as a physician
owned organization, there's also a business side to it, and
that's something that I think I just started to learn
organically as we started in twenty twelve. We developed a
board within our organization, and I guess I could say
I've had the pleasure of being on the board many
(09:27):
times over over the last thirteen years, but I've learned
a lot, and I think just through that organic learning
process was asked to take on more and more, and yeah,
feel very privileged to be in this role now.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
It seems like well with any industry, but especially healthcare medicine,
it's always changing.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Of course, you have progress too.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
What is the most difficult thing to have to get
your hands around or take the bull by the horns
when it comes to what you do in the healthcare?
Speaker 3 (10:00):
I think things are always changing. Yeah, but I think
that's part of what makes it fun. To be honest,
healthcare is hard, but I find that incredibly rewarding to
be able to try to figure out kind of on
the fly what we need to do to ultimately take
care of that patient, because you know, I think by
and large, all of us who get into this field,
(10:21):
that's what we really want to do, is make sure
that we're taking care of taking great care of patients.
There's so many different regulations that are frequently changing. Drug
therapies are frequently changing. Treatment therapies as far as surgical
options and such are frequently changing. So staying up up
to date with that literature can be a bit of
a challenge, I bad, But again, I think just being
(10:44):
agile frequently, just trying to learn and trying to just
be up the best healthcare provider I can be is
really what gets me up every morning.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Now.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
I don't know if I would have just a regular
average Joe would have access to things that you have
access to, But I'm curious, where do you go to
stay up on things? What publications, what do you read?
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Gosh, there's so many new England Journal of Medicine cares
up today. There's so many online resources. When I started
my career, we actually had books, I know. So I
still have a couple of bookshelves at home with some
obnoxiously large textbooks that every now and then show to
(11:25):
my kids.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Yeah, I bet one of these data.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
But a lot of it's there's different online resources that
provide great up to date information with as far as
what's changing, what new guidelines are, and so that's a
frequent point of reference for me. Med One has internal
educational programs as well, which has been I think incredibly
helpful for me. But I know our team as well.
(11:50):
There's a few of us on our team I would
say myself not included necessarily, who really enjoy diving into
the different medical literature. And then in turn, we provide
best practices to our team that we're able to distribute
and just make sure that we're consistently providing the highest
level of care.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
What's your leadership style?
Speaker 1 (12:10):
You seem like a guy who's pretty easy going, But
what is it like when you have to put the
CEO hat on.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
I don't get nervous too often. Yeah, I think that.
I like to think I'm a pretty calm, collected person.
But I'm confident as well, and I'd like to think
that shows. I think that one of the biggest things
for me is just building trust. I've been with the
organization now for like I said, thirteen years. I've been
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around the block a while. I try to treat my
colleagues the same way that I want to be treated,
and I think that's gone a long way as far
as just the different roles that have come my way
over these last decade plus. People trust me for the
most part, and I think because of that, I've been
able to kind of had the privilege of being in
(13:01):
the CEO role now.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Yeah, well, said doctor Sen. Doctor Sen SIV is with us.
He's the CEO of med one Healthcare Partners. Look, I
don't know what you can say, but I know you're
a human.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
You also have health insurance.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
So I'm sure you see and hear this all the time.
I remember as a kid the struggle was always real
with healthcare. Actually I didn't have health insurance growing now,
we lived on a farm, couldn't afford it. But now
that seems to be topic a all the time, is
affordable health care health insurance? Is that always going to
(13:36):
be a struggle or a goal to make health care better?
Especially when it comes to insurance. There just always seems
to be the struggle doctor, between health care facilities and
then insurance companies.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
I don't have a great answer to that other than
that Unfortunately, you're right. It's been a challenge for as
long as I've been in medicine, I know many years
before that as well, and I expect that it's going
to be our problem or a challenge for us as
a country, to be honest, I think for many years
to come. We have our government payers like Medicare and Medicaid,
commercial pairs which include many different organizations, all of which
(14:12):
are I think you're trying to do what's best for
the American patient, if you will. But with that said,
I think because there's so many distinct organizations that provide
insurance coverage, there's not necessarily alignment, and I think that's
part of what creates a lot of the challenges that
we face as a country to be honest with just
(14:35):
pair coverage and who's covering what and all of that.
I know, one of the things I personally have always
loved about hospital medicine is that we don't even ask
that question as providers because we just take care of
any patient who comes to the hospital.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Amazing.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Now, as we branched into other service lines like primary
care and others, that becomes certainly something that we're going
to have to dive into a lot more and managed differently.
But with that said, you know, I think that from
the proprietor perspective, we just want to take care of people.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Where are we going in the world of medicine and technology?
What's next? We saw during the pandemic h there were
a lot of you know, virtual through screens. Are we
going to see more of that? What do you see
for the future?
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Yeah, So, I think when I started my career, innovation
was largely linked with procedures, new surgical techniques, less invasive techniques,
you know, whether it be laparoscopic techniques, robotic techniques, even
open heart surgeries, you know, although they're still done, there's
(15:43):
lots of different catheter type cathter type procedures that are
done now which are less invasive. Patients are able to
go home quicker. Surgical procedures are being done less and
less in the hospital now and more in outpatient centers
like ambulatory surgery centers. I'd say one of the things
we're seeing now as far as innovation in medicine is
drug therapies with all kinds of different drug therapies which
(16:06):
are novel like the GLP ones is definitely becoming more
of a commonly prescribed medication, and definitely see a lot
of other infusions and such that I expect will become
part of the innovative techniques and practices that we see
in medicine moving forward. Of course, there's AI as well,
which we're seeing a ton in what in primary care,
(16:27):
but then other aspects of medicine as well. It's exciting
to see that, as I mentioned earlier, we are going
to be starting a primary care practice in just a
couple of months and see some really neat ways to
leverage AI so that we're working smarter.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
I'm so glad you brought up AI because that was
going to be what I was going to ask you
about next. Does it before even AI burst in on
the scene. I would imagine you heard a lot from
patients that would google something and then they would probably
ad or another doctor, well, I google this, and this
(17:03):
is how they said to take.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Care of it.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Well, now you're dealing with AI, which is I think
Mady would argue, is much more accurate accurate than just
googling something. But what do you say to someone that
there's quite a few that are now using just AI
to figure out what's wrong with them.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
It's an interesting dilemma at times because one of the
things that I definitely encourage patients to do, just like providers,
is be engaged. I think is really important that patients
are engaged in their care because the more they know,
the more questions they ask. But then hopefully the more
stuff that they are to feedback as well and to
(17:42):
the expertise of providers, ultimately they're going to have better
care and feel better about just their overall health. So
I think leveraging AI, whether it's patients or providers is important.
It's here to stay. I think we all have to
kind of teach each other. It's funny sometimes, you know.
I even learned things, you know, in talking to patients
(18:03):
about different therapies that they've read about and other colleagues
as well through AI and through other types of online searches.
So I think we all win when we're all educating
one another.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Yeah, no, agreed.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Do you see some type of AI assistance to a
doctor with a patient down the road?
Speaker 2 (18:24):
How does that work? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (18:25):
So one of the things that I'm really excited about,
and we're already seeing this in a lot of ambulatory spaces,
is using AI, just as we're talking now, as almost
a transcription service. Like I said earlier, documentation is so
important to what we do in the medical field, and
that takes time and can also be distracting. For example
(18:48):
of you know, if I was talking to a patient
and I was just looking at a computer typing during
that conversation, right, it becomes very impersonal very quickly, and
I think can lead to distrust and then potitionally even
non compliance from that. Ultimately maybe even an outcome that
neither one of us wanted. The use of AI with
something called ambient listening now allows for providers to literally
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just sit and talk to their patients and the conversation
is essentially recorded and transcribed in real time. It's a
huge patient sorry, provider satisfier as well. There's this kind
of a funny term in medicine that called pajama time.
It's very common for providers after a long day of
seeing patients that have to go home later in the
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evening and spend time in front of the computer documenting
all the different notes that they had done earlier in
the day.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
I didn't know this, okay.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
And so that can be a cause or burnout, sometimes
even some inaccuracies with the documentation because it's been several
hours since that patient was seen, sometimes even several days.
And so just eliminating that I think has led to
a lot more just provider satisfaction as well.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Doctor, would you if you and we're just talking one
industry here, but would you agree that AI there's always
this sphere. AI is going to take over the world
and all these jobs. It's really there if anything else
to benefit and help. I guess that person, like a doctor,
focus more on what they need to focus on, right yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
I mean, this is a hot topic in medicine right now,
and there are certainly some who fear that AI is
going to replace physicians.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
But how do you feel about that.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
I don't think that that's the case. I think that
physicians who use AI replace physicians who don't, So it's
here to stay. It's very I think it's going to
be critical to how we practice in the future, but
I definitely don't see it replacing what I do.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Yeah, and if I'm a doctor, I'd be pretty offended to, like, Hey,
you did no schooling. Someone fed you all this info.
I did twelve years of schooling for this, Come on now. Also,
a little birdie told me that you're very excellent tennis.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Pretty good at it. I've I started playing when I
was ten years old and just really got into it
as a youngster, played throughout high school and then played
on my college team as well. Still try to play
pretty regularly, play in a local league here in Columbus,
and it's a great form of exercise. Yeah, a great
(21:22):
group of folks that I get to play with, and
just the last couple of years got my daughter into
it as well. So it's been fun to be able
to kind of pass that on, and on the weekends
we get out of the courts and are able to
hit together, which is fun.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Side note, possible to get some advice from you about
getting a daughter lessons for tennis, Meaning I have a
four year old. I don't want her to go the
typical route of unless she loves it, of course, soccer, whatever, basketball.
But a neighbor told me, hey, you might want to
get your kids into something they could get not necessarily
(21:56):
an easier scholarship, but a tennis scholarship at college someday.
So what's a good age to get them into tennis?
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Would you say?
Speaker 3 (22:03):
I'd say are probably around ten twelve years old.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Probably she's got some time.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
She's got some time. Yeah, I was lucky when I
was a kid. My folks had exposed me with lots
of different sports. I'd say soccer and tennis were probably
the two that I enjoy the most, and my parents
are at one point we're just like, hey, you've got
to choose one because we can't drive it all these
places all the time. So tennis is what I landed on.
But yeah, I think ten twelve years old is probably
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a good good age group to try to get people started.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
All right, doctors, we racked up wrap up here. I
want to ask you what is the future of med one.
What's on the horizon for us to know?
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Yeah, So med one started as med one Hospital Physicians,
and a few years ago, as we were becoming a
larger organization expanding outside of the hospital, we went through
a rebranding and became med one Healthcare Partners. We are
in just a couple of months going to be starting
our premier primary care program, which I'm incredibly excited about
(23:03):
because it's going to lead to a different level of
connectivity that med one can offer to our patients and
to the community.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
How does that look? What does that look like? So
we're gonna be.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Able to not just take care of patients in the hospital,
but take care of patients in their primary care setting
and also in the post acute facilities if and when
patients get discharged to nursing facilities and such and so
in every phase of care, patients are going to feel
connected to their provider. There's always going to be a smooth,
smooth handoff from one place, one side of care to
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the next. And so I'm super excited about what we're
going to be able to offer to the community moving
forward with that level of connectivity.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
And for those that would like more on med one,
where's a good place to go.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Your social is your.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Website medwehp dot com and keep an eye out for
a new and improved website.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Fantastic Well, Doctor's Senseva, really appreciate your time. I know
you're probably really really busy. Congrats on all your success.
Thank you for deciding that Columbus is going to be
home for you and your family, and hope to have
you back on really soon, so take care, Thank you,
appreciate the time. CEOs You Should Know is hosted and
produced by Brandon Boxer, a production of iHeartMedia Columbus
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