Executive Uninterrupted

Brian Urban & Saul Marquez

Powered by Outcomes Rocket Media, Executive Uninterrupted shines a spotlight on the forces transforming the payer ecosystem, from large national health plans and the Blues to provider-owned plans and regional innovators. Join Brian Urban and Saul Marquez for sharp conversations with changemakers driving cost optimization, care delivery alignment, data accuracy, and value-based evolution.

Episodes

  1. From Finance to ARPA-H: Dr. Rafid Fadul on Equity, Access, and Simple Tech

    3 DAYS AGO

    From Finance to ARPA-H: Dr. Rafid Fadul on Equity, Access, and Simple Tech

    From finance to frontline care, Dr. Rafid Fadul’s journey is anything but conventional. In this episode, Dr. Rafid Fadul, founder of Zivian Health and incoming Chief Medical Officer of ARPA-H, discusses how a late-college realization about equity and impact led him to leave finance and pursue medicine. He shares how, during his residency and MBA program, he was introduced to digital health through a capstone project focused on improving access to care in post-war Iraq using simple mobile phone–based solutions. Dr. Fadul reflects on how this early experience demonstrated the power of technology to overcome systemic barriers and shaped his career across academic medicine, digital health innovation, and healthcare leadership. Tune in to hear how purpose, access, and innovation intersect in Dr. Fadul’s vision for the future of healthcare. Resources Connect with Dr. Rafid Fadul on LinkedIn here. Find out more about ARPA-H on LinkedIn, and visit their website here.  Follow Zivian Health on LinkedIn and discover their website here.

    32 min

  2. 3 FEB

    Uninterrupted at the Inflection Point with Brian Urban and Saul Marquez

    The biggest opportunity in healthcare today lies in honest, uninterrupted conversations between the people shaping payer and provider decisions. In this intro episode of the Executive Uninterrupted Podcast, Brian Urban, a healthcare leader, advisor, and adjunct professor, explains why the payer–provider ecosystem has reached a true inflection point and why progress requires understanding the humans behind executive titles. Together with Saul Marquez, he explores long-standing friction points across reimbursement, contracting, value-based care, patient experience, and policy, while arguing that the system is not broken but functioning imperfectly. Brian reflects on how his experience across health plans, retail health, and enterprise organizations revealed the need for a space where executives can speak candidly about profit-and-loss accountability, community-level impact, and real-world constraints. The episode closes with their vision for an uninterrupted podcast format that challenges conventional thinking, highlights emerging executive roles shaping population health, and previews conversations with influential leaders across medicine, policy, and innovation. Tune in and learn how raw executive insight can reshape healthcare strategy, collaboration, and the future of the ecosystem! Resources: Connect with Brian Urban on LinkedIn here. Connect with Saul Marquez on LinkedIn here. Stay tuned for more episode on the Executive Uninterrupted podcast here. Find out more about Outcomes Rocket on LinkedIn. Visit the Outcomes Rocket website here.

    8 min
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Powered by Outcomes Rocket Media, Executive Uninterrupted shines a spotlight on the forces transforming the payer ecosystem, from large national health plans and the Blues to provider-owned plans and regional innovators. Join Brian Urban and Saul Marquez for sharp conversations with changemakers driving cost optimization, care delivery alignment, data accuracy, and value-based evolution.

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    Brian Urban & Saul Marquez
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