America's Healthcare Advocate

Join me with my guest Misty Snodgrass as we explore why only one carrier services 103 Kansas counties and even goes below five lives in small group coverage. They are Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas, and they are truly the hometown carrier. Misty is their Director of ACA & Medicaid and is my expert guest.

• At Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas, community involvement is a key component.
• Discuss how an EPO (Exclusive Provider Or...

My guest, Ron Miller is BlueKC’s FEP Senior Sales Consultant & Labor Liaison and Ron and I have all the things to know Right Now and why Federal Employees should consider Blue Cross Ble Shield for their health insurance needs!

• The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Federal Employee Program is the number one health insurance choice for federal employees, retirees, and their families.
• For nearly 60 years, we’ve been committed to offeri...

John Massey and a couple of his friends came together and created a program called Zuzu's Petals. Born out of a great love of Christmas and how each of them were impacted by Chrfistmas when they were young, this non-profit takes care of families that cannot afford to have a Christmas, and they do it in a very unique way.

John, Mak and Dan love Christmas so much, they created a way to share it and help local families. John joins us t...

Misty Snodgrass is Director, ACA & Medicaid at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas and she'll let us know what you Must Know if you have an ACA insurance plan.

MISTY: This is unprecedented. At BCBSKS we're doing our best to hold the rates down and even taking a hit financially. But we want to make sure that people in Kansas have access to coverage.

CARY: Like Misty said, they're more than happy to talk to you and just explain what's...

I've wanted to do this show for a long time. It's personal to me. This is on what I call the big four weight loss drugs. Ozempic, Wegovy, Zepbound and Mountjaro. And the reason I wanted to do this show was because I was struggling with some weight issues and went to see my primary care doc, and she goes, well, let's just go ahead and give you Wegovy. And I thought, you know, I think I'm going to go find a weight loss clinic. I'm go...

There’s a lot of chatter out there. That's about the best way I can put it about what's going to happen with ACA. And, you know, I'm seeing pieces in the media that are portraying what's going to occur and the changes that are going to happen and how they're going to impact people, and unfortunately, there's a lot of false narrative out there. So I'm going to I'm going to explain where we're at on the individual health insurance ma...

Today my friend and guest is Philip Sarnecki a Kansas businessman, a job creator, a husband, and father who rose from humble beginnings (the son of a janitor and a secretary) who then built one of the nation’s largest financial services companies and has led businesses that today employ nearly 1,000 people across multiple industries. Plus, he has great plans for the state of Kansas, and we discuss his Philip Sarnecki for Governor p...

Barron Roberts is my expert today on this Blue Cross Blue Shield Kansas City update show. How will it play out for all of you out there in the audience for your coverage in '26? We will cover the individual side and what Blue Cross is doing to lead the way. They're actually going to have premium reductions on the individual side, and we'll talk about what are the answers to the employers out there, the small group employer, the emp...

Today we learn about Bexa: A Revolutionary Early Detection Option that Dr. Monique Gary tells me is closing the gap and delivering peace of mind. Dr Gary says women have been in need of another early detection option and reminds us that to many women delay routine exams or avoid them all together. But unlike the common experience, Bexa is accurate and pain free and companies should include this benefit to their employees.

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By 2033, the Medicare Hospital Trust Fund will be unable to pay full benefits. More people are retiring and fewer workers are replacing them and there is a huge amount of waste and fraud in administering Medicare.

They waste $50-$60 Billion per year with improper payments according to there own numbers.

I will give you the details as well as my suggestions for solutions solutions. This is an important episode and it invollves every ...

Free referral services in the industry really aren’t free. My guest Steve Kuker is a veteran placement expert who exposes exactly how they work. These are at best a conflict of interest and Steve is pushing for our federal regulators to act because, as an example, in real estate you must disclose how much commission the realtor makes on the transaction… why isn’t there the same requirement for the free referral services for your ag...

Focus Hearing's Shannon Schneller joins and this time brings testimonials from Len Randazzo of Cumulus Media and over very own video producer Dave Thiessen and along with myself, we all three share the good the bad and all things related to getting a hearing aid and we all then compare it to the experience at Focus Hearing, who know how to do it right.

In this episode you will find out what you should know when you set out to "Hear ...

It's a very interesting Multi-Topic show: Today we Separate Fact from Fiction and dive into the claim that 7.8 Million will Lose Medicaid and what will really happen. We also discuss how ACA/Obamacare recipients who pay less due to a subsity based on low income will be required to provide a tax return to prove income. Then we hear from a listener from the west cost explain why she happily paid pays $5000 per month in cash to her il...

Employees love it: “This is the only benefit my employer really provides” and Employers think it’s great and it is the result of wanting to both solve healthcare challenges for members while giving employers lower costs, less absenteeism, healthier teams.

We talk to the founder and CEO, Dr. Van Der Veer whose frustration with traditional healthcare led to creating a better way. Hy-Vee Health Exemplar Care is currently available in s...

This week Dr Carson, Dr Firouz Daneshgari and Dr Andersen join us on America’s Healthcare Advocate.

What do these 3 Doctors have to do with the Future of your Health?

We will cover everything from helping people regain the ability to walk again, stopping pain and fixing neuropathy all with noninvasive treatments to how it’s done, why it works and what is next in health. Here are some examples:

Dr Andersen: “it doesn't matter whether y...

New options, Spira Care and Care Guides from BlueKC and we dive deep into Employer options for Employee Benefits available right now and what's coming up. This is a Broker show for sure, and if you are a business owner in the Kansas City Metro, you'll want to hear this too!

Director of Large Group, Maggie Parker and Vice President of Spira Care Anna Finnegan are on this show with details, tips and their vast knowledge. We will discu...

Today, we're going to explore the parallels between two core human pursuits, prosperity and longevity. These have long been the goals of individual societies and political systems. Since the dawn of humanity, we have sought systems that offer comfort and freedom to pursue our desires. We now define that broadly as prosperity

Today, Dr. Firouz Daneshgari (Dr Bowtie) and I are going to explore the parallels between two core human purs...

Our Turning Lives Around series features my guest Matt Thomas: : “I grew up I grew up in a pretty rough environment. My house was pretty rough. My mom, bless her heart, was an alcoholic and my dad wasn't around.”

Coupled with not such a great environment, Matt started getting in trouble at a really young age, spent time in juvenile hall and all his teenage years in a home for wayward boys, a gothic boarding school.

“It was the patter...

Is the reason you don’t want to go see your grandkids (or family, friends) because you can’t hear a damn thing they are saying?

Welcome to The Hearing Show. I'm Cary Hall, America's Healthcare Advocate and I wear a hearing aid. My returning guest is an expert on all things “hearing aid”, Shannon Schnellner, the owner of Focus Hearing in Overland Park, Ks.

If you or someone you know wants to know everything you need to know about hear...