The Healthcare Badlands Podcast

The Healthcare Badlands Podcast

The business of Healthcare is hard creating a Badlands of terrain that is difficult to navigate. Some think the most brilliant minds in business are on Wall Street. They are wrong. The most brilliant minds are in healthcare. They have to be to thrive and survive. This podcast explores concepts in leadership, management, sales, and negotiation with those brilliant minds. The Healthcare Badlands Podcast is generally planned but unscripted, unedited, and uncut so you get the honest and unfiltered experience.

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July 21, 2025 42 mins

Danne shares insights to the recently passed Big Beautiful Bill and the impact expected to hospitals. She also discusses advocacy, working at the State and Federal level, and other topics. This is a very timely podcast episode given recent changes in healthcare legislation.

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Many will remember Dan Collard from his time with StuderGroup. He is now reunited with Quint Studer where they are leading through the Healthcare Plus Solutions Group. An operator at heart, Dan shares his thoughts on improving financial, quality, and satisfaction metrics while maximizing your team’s performance.

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Paul is a wealth of knowledge and has an impressive view ofsome of the greatest challenges healthcare and physician practices are facing. In Part 2, we focus on AI, PBMs, and Prior Authorizations - all issues that create both opportunity and issues for providers.

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Paul is a wealth of knowledge and has an impressive view of some of the greatest challenges healthcare and physician practices are facing. In Part 1, we focus on Tragic Alignment related to vertical and horizontal integration of providers and payors.

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Dr. Kahane discusses medical weight loss (Ozympic, Wegovy, Mounjaro,Zepbound) versus bariatric surgery weight loss, success factors in medical weight loss, and compounded weight loss medications. He also discusses private equity, physician burnout, culture, and medical society success.

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Now leading RMC Health System, Keith Parrott shares insights and experiences through his impressive journey of healthcare leadership. Focusing on managing culture leads to success as Keith has proven with Memorial Hermann, Baptist Health, Tenet, Amita Health, and Ascension.

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Mike Neuendorf is a healthcare and hospital CEO veteran withmany years of leadership experience. Most importantly, Mike is a great story teller and shares a lot offunny stories from his days in the hospital CEO chair. This is a two part series of episodes and there was too much good content just for one episode!

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Mike Neuendorf is a healthcare and hospital CEO veteran with many years of leadership experience. Most importantly, Mike is a great story teller and shares a lot offunny stories from his days in the hospital CEO chair. This is a two part series of episodes and there was too much good content just for one episode!

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Brandon shares a compelling story of his healthcare experience as his mother battled cancer. It is the story that you hope was not your organization. His insights are key to the small things that healthcare organizations can do different that make a big difference in the perception and reality of patients when they interact with your care givers. Small changes can become a major strategic advantage.

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Shane shares key leadership strategies he has used in multiple impressive healthcare systems and covers topics of AI, operational excellence, and what it takes to be a great leader of others.

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Colin is regarded by many as the "go to" legal counsel for contentious healthcare legal battles, mergers and acquisitions, and matters of CON.  Colin is the guy you want on your side of the table in a challenging legal situation and someone I have grown to deeply admire.


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Lance Boyd is the CEO for Fairfax Radiology Centers. He has a diverse background of healthcare leadership in hospitals, physician practices, and long term care. He provides insight into practice leadership as well as career advice for seasoned as well as young executives.Sponsored by Scio Management Solutions https://scioms.com

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Joe is one of the most honest and blunt leaders with whom I have had the opportunity to work. He shares his insights into what he has learned over the years about matching communication to the audience, evolving as a leader, and effective strategies for operational responsibility over multiple locations in the same system.


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Scott shares his expertise on healthcare innovation, AI, creating physician networks that benefit all parties, and how to lead innovation from within while being sensitive to changes in the industry.


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Jon-Paul shares insights into the challenges serving as a CEO, leading and developing others, the best advice he received over the years, and candidly discusses the loneliness of leadership.


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John Porterfield MD is a robotics General Surgeon and a Founder and the CMO for Informed Surgical Inc. Topics include using data to connect patients with the best surgeon, what makes a surgeon the best, the future of AI in healthcare, and how physicians can take their skills and expertise from the operating room to the the Board room.


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