BRight Minds in Healthcare Delivery
BRight Minds in Healthcare Delivery invites industry leaders to discuss the latest trends and hot topics in healthcare strategy, delivery, and innovation. Listen in as industry experts, thought leaders, and innovators consider how to disrupt the way that millions of Americans receive healthcare. Blank Rome is an Am Law 100 firm with 16 offices and more than 750 attorneys and principals who provide comprehensive legal and advocacy services to clients operating in the United States and around the world. Our professionals have built a reputation for their leading knowledge and experience across a spectrum of industries and are recognized for their commitment to pro bono work in their communities. Since our inception in 1946, Blank Rome’s culture has been dedicated to providing exceptional service to all of our clients and has been rooted in the strength of our diversity and inclusion initiatives. For more information, please visit blankrome.com.
Episodes
In this episode of BRight Minds in Healthcare Delivery, host Eric Tower engages in a thought-provoking conversation with guest Dr. David Schreiner, former president and CEO of Katherine Shaw Bethea Hospital, which merged with OSF Healthcare in January 2025 to create OSF Saint Katharine Medical Center. Dr. Schreiner shares insights on ...
On this episode of BRight Minds and Healthcare Delivery, Dan Yunker, SVP of Risk and Compliance at Kodiak Solutions, joins host Eric Tower as they explore innovative strategies and trends in healthcare. Dan offers a brief overview of Kodiak Solutions, a technology-driven firm established by Crowe LLP. He outlines the range of services provided to clients, which i...
In this episode of Bright Minds in Healthcare Delivery, host Eric Tower interviews Michael Stamatinos, who has nearly 20 years of experience in the healthcare sector. They discuss the importance of innovation in healthcare, focusing on creating access to care, food, and housing, as well as the leadership and collaboration needed to drive innovation. Michael emphasizes the need f...
In this episode of BRight Minds in Healthcare Delivery, host Eric Tower interviews Dr. Vishnukamal Golla, the medical director for value transformation at Evolent, a specialty and primary care enablement company. They discuss evolution and innovation in value-based care (“VBC”), and the headwinds impacting implementation of VBC in multi-specialty groups. Key challenges in operationalizing VBC are also examined,...
In this episode of BRight Minds in Healthcare Delivery, host Eric Tower interviews Robert Aprill, a partner at Physician Growth Partners. They discuss consolidation in the healthcare industry and how physician consolidation can create value for investors, owners, physicians, patients, and payers. Eric and Robert examine private equity (“PE”) invest...
In this episode of BRight Minds in Healthcare Delivery, host Eric Tower, a partner at Blank Rome, interviews Luis Argueso, partner and co-founder at InHealth Advisors. They discuss physician engagement and alignment with value-based care (“VBC”) and explore the opportunities for successful provider group participation. Key topics include strategies for transitioni...
In this episode of BRight Minds in Healthcare Delivery, Blank Rome partner Alex C. Nisenbaum talks with Rajni Natesan, MD, MBA, Chief Executive Officer of Clarified Precision Medicine, about how technology is rapidly changing healthcare delivery. They discuss the use of machine learning (“ML”) algorithms and artificial intelligence (“AI”) to improve health outcomes, as well as t...
In this episode of BRight Minds in Healthcare Delivery, host Eric Tower interviews Larry Elisco, a partner in Wipfli LLP’s health care practice who focuses on accounting, audit, and valuation services for physician practices. They explore how the shift from fee-for-service to value-based care models impacts the valuation of physician practices, how to assess quality of earnings (“Q of E”) reports and the downsi...
In this episode of BRight Minds in Healthcare Delivery, Eric J. Muehlbauer joins host Eric Tower for a conversation about his storied career at the North American Spine Society (“NASS”) and his new book titled “Roadmap to Innovation.” The podcast covers how spine health has shifted over time, medical device innovation and what it takes to bring new medical devices to market—inclu...
In this episode of BRight Minds in Healthcare Delivery, Donna Cooper joins host Eric Tower for a conversation about her career and how her prior experience has influenced her current role as an operating partner. Donna explains the role of an operating partner at a private equity firm, describes how the role of an operating partner differs from the executive team overseeing a portfoli...
Join Hector Torres and Aaron Newman, healthcare investment bankers, as they discuss current market trends with host Eric Tower in the latest episode of BRight Minds in Healthcare Delivery. Hector and Aaron explore burgeoning signs of activity, the effects of private equity investment scrutiny on deal-making, delve into the state's regulatory role in healthcare transactions, and innova...
In this episode of BRight Minds in Healthcare Delivery, Blank Rome partner Barak A. Bassman joins host Eric Tower to talk about how to legally and practically structure value-based care arrangements, and how to navigate those arrangements if they go south. Eric and Barak discuss the critical components to structuring a value-based care program, how to get the program accepted by payers, and what to do when payers move the goal post...
In this episode of BRight Minds in Healthcare Delivery, Dr. Aric Coffman, joins host Eric Tower for a conversation about the road to value-based care, aligning incentives with goals to set health systems up for success, combating physician burnout by improving engagement, payer relationships and their role in value-based care, and managing relationships up and down the continuum of care.
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In this episode of BRight Minds in Healthcare Delivery, Dan Juberg joins host Eric Tower to discuss emerging healthcare technologies, innovation in the surgical and specialty care fields, and the driving forces behind them. Eric and Dan dive in to how to make surgery smarter and improve surgical outcomes for patients, providers, and payers using data-driven ...
In this episode of BRight Minds in Healthcare Delivery, Josh M. Berlin, JD, joins host Eric Tower to talk about five key areas to watch in the healthcare industry today: (1) the refresh in the delivery model of care, (2) moving into Medicare Advantage, (3) disruption through the lens of the new “Big 4” in healthcare, (4) private equity dollars and how they are innovating and disrupting, and (5) employers becoming more emboldened to...
In the inaugural episode of BRight Minds in Healthcare Delivery, Dr. Soujanya “Chinni” Pulluru joins host Eric Tower to discuss disruptions in healthcare, the move toward value-based care, the importance of technology and data infrastructure, traction in retail health, creating better access to care, and incentivizing changed behavior in the industry.
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