America's Healthcare Advocate

Cary Hall
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My name is Cary Hall and I have a strong desire to seperate Fact from Fiction and empower my fellow Americans to cancel out (not add to) the noise and confusion in the US healthcare system by bringing you curated information, a powerful group of healthcare providers, experts, practitioners, authors, and inventors, plus related business and industry leaders for every episode of my show. My goal is to enable you to become an expert in your own healthcare management. It will save your time, save your money, and considerably reduce the effort needed to accomplish it. Most people, when faced with a medical or healthcare decision, are often in for a complex and uphill battle finding and accessing the options available to them or even sorting through the available options to find the best one for them. I will continue to be a reliable and trusted source for expert-level information and advice about the nuances of healthcare and health insurance and a guide and advocate for every American when making important decisions about their personal healthcare and also when they are a caregiver and helping their spouse, parent, child, sibling or friend.

  1. 1d ago

    Brokers: Learn how NOT to get in trouble with AI

    We're going to talk to you, the broker, you the employer, and you, the human resource director, about solutions that are outside the box, including how to properly, ethically and legally use AI resources. The other thing we're going to talk about is how if you're a broker, especially if you're a medium and small size broker. Do I use AI. Stephen Combs and Marc Wiersmer join us from BrokersBloc. This is season 22 episode 22 of America's Heathcare Advocate. I'm Cary Hall. Learn more about BrokersBloc at https://brokersbloc.com/ As always, if you need help or have something to share, contact me using this form on my website and let me know what's on your mind, the issues you are dealing with, or any other health, healthcare, or health insurance questions or concerns. Visit: https://www.americashealthcareadvocate.com/contact-us

    Brokers: Learn how NOT to get in trouble with AI

  2. 2d ago

    Community Involvement RE: Food Insecurity, Health and Mental Health -Blue KC's Strategic Initiatives

    Macaela and Rebecca bring us their strategy and share with me their community initiatives in Kansas City: For example, Macaela tells how working with over 200 nonprofits in Kansas City and passionately supports them including some of our veterans annually with a group from Blue KC to help out with the tiny houses over at Veterans Community Project. We also supply funds to them to make sure that they can continue to thrive. Then there's Cornerstones of Care and its vocational program, Build Trybe, Kansas City Community Gardens and the Giving Grove to work with students at DeLaSalle Education Center in transforming an empty field next to the school into a new Learning Farm that will positively impact hundreds of young adults in surrounding neighborhoods. Rebecca reminds me when you look at Kansas City, about 1 in 7 adults don't know where their next meal is coming from, and we know one of the greatest inputs to chronic disease and the things that drive up health care costs are the foods. So if you're eating fast food and you're not eating healthy, you're likely to develop hypertension. You're likely to develop diabetes. It's all connected. You can't you can't unconnect it. and it's impacting every part of these people's lives. For me, I find what there two are doing is impactful and it’s making a difference. In this show I hope to educated you and inform you about what this company, Blue KC does be part of Kansas City. This is season 22 episode 36 of America’s Healthcare Advocate. I’m Cary Hall Learn more here: https://www.bluekc.com/about/community-impact/giving-back/ -- Cary Hall, America's Healthcare Advocate brings you topics and guests that are relevant to your health, the health of your business, healthcare needs, as well as critical health insurance information. https://www.americashealthcareadvocate.com/ Additional links from our show today: https://bionexuskc.org/ https://kccg.org/giving-grove-orchards/ https://buildwyco.org/community-programs/health-programs/ https://www.kanbesmarkets.org/ https://vcp.org/about-vcp/our-locations/kansas-city/ https://vcp.org/about-vcp/faqs/#tiny-homes

    Community Involvement RE: Food Insecurity, Health and Mental Health -Blue KC's Strategic Initiatives

  3. Oct 4

    Rural Hospital NOT Closing. Hear about this Rural Hospital Comeback!

    See how rural Washington County hospital in Sandersville, Georgia comes back from the brink of closing and hear their recovery story after partnering with Aletheia Health Partners. Our guests tell it firsthand: Pam Stewart is the CEO at Washington County Regional Medical Center, and Abby Summers from Aletheia Health Partners is my returning guest. This is a 56-bed PPS Hospital and 60 bed nursing home serving patients since 1961 located in a "landlocked" county, meaning it is surrounded by counties with no hospital. You’ve heard the term “urban food desert” which are city neighborhoods where residents lack easy access to fresh, healthy, and affordable food? Well, this is the same thing for rural families and small cities across the USA. This is a fantastic hospital turnaround story! This is season 22 episode 30 of America’s Healthcare Advocate. I’m Cary Hall Learn more here: https://aletheiahp.com/from-crisis-to-comeback-washington-county-regional-medical-center/ --- Cary Hall, America's Healthcare Advocate brings you topics and guests that are relevant to your health, the health of your business, healthcare needs, as well as critical health insurance information. https://www.americashealthcareadvocate.com/

    Rural Hospital NOT Closing. Hear about this Rural Hospital Comeback!

  4. Sep 19

    The Hearing Aide Experience with Focus Hearing

    Shannon Schneller knows why most people don’t come in with mild hearing loss and wait until they have moderate hearing loss. “But moderate hearing loss responds very well if it's treated it's just so much easier if we can catch it mild to moderate than if the loss goes to severe hearing loss”. She will tell us why you could lose more of your ability to discern speech the longer you wait and the hearing aid will be less effective once loss has gone on too long. Today, we explore the Hearing Aide Experience, and if you think you’re too young, the fact is, untreated hearing loss can start as early as 35 years old. This is season 22 episode 28 of America's Healthcare Advocate. I'm Cary Hall. Learn More about hearing issues and what we discused today: https://myfocushearing.com or call: 913-754-2144.

    The Hearing Aide Experience with Focus Hearing

  5. Sep 12

    Is Your Hospital Closing? Why Do Rural Hospitals Struggle?

    How Healthy is your hospital? Many rural hospitals either close or they are taken over by a large group. But Abby Summers and Kerry Trapnell from Aletheia Health Partners have a much better plan for rural hospitals that is making them stronger and helping them succeed, lead and grow. We'll discuss 340B for rural hospitals and how it works, how to go from losing money to breaking even and making a profit at your rural hospital, and how both of my guests share a passion for Aletheia Health Partners’ mission to improve the operations and sustainability of rural hospitals. This is season 22, episode 25 of America's Healthcare Advocate. I'm Cary Hall. To learn about Aletheia Health: https://aletheiahp.com And if you need my help or have something to share? Send me a message: Contact Cary Hall, America's Healthcare Advocate: https://www.americashealthcareadvocate.com/contact-us

    Is Your Hospital Closing? Why Do Rural Hospitals Struggle?

  6. Aug 28

    Why is ICHRA the Benefits Option That's Best for My Employees?

    How Can PersonalBlue and ICHRA Help Me Stabilize Costs, Save Money? Does ICHRA Have More or Fewer Options for Employees? NebraskaBlue’s Heather Rollins is a ICHRA Plan Specialist and in this, our second show on the topic of ICHRA, we open up the discussion with all the details on Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska‘s defined contribution medical plan and how it can help control costs, reduce administrative burden and still offer employees a lot more choice. If you are a business owner, CEO/CFO, HR Director, or anyone in business or industry with cost concerns and/or a complex workforce, even if you have workers outside of Nebraska… you’ll find today’s show a must listen (and watch)! Even though the information concerns employers in Nebraska, I think it’s very helpful; to anyone in any location to identify and seek these amazing health benefits, plans and approaches. Learn more: http://nebraskablue.com/getaquote This is season 22, episode 27 of America’s Healthcare Advocate. I’m Cary Hall. Need help or have something to share? Send me a message. Contact Cary Hall, America's Healthcare Advocate: https://www.americashealthcareadvocate.com/contact-us For advertising options, email us at advertise@hianetwork.com For in-show SageonRQ mentions, go to: SageonRQ.ai or https://app.sageonrq.ai/

    Why is ICHRA the Benefits Option That's Best for My Employees?

  7. Aug 22

    Small Group - Blue KC Has Many Plan Options For Small Business

    My guests from Blue KC are Barron Roberts, the director of small Group and individual and Drew Hatten, the vice president of underwriting. There's some very interesting things going on with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City, Blue KC, right now as we move into the fourth quarter of next year. · For our broker partners in the market: how we can drive additional value, to the small group space in the Kansas City market. · Blue Select plus reporting, including Heatmaps to help our broker partners understand where members live in regard to the Spira Care locations. · Incentives to drive and reward. · Additional work and education support provided when they introduce Spira Care and Blue Select Plus. · We’ll discuss Curve Underwriting and advanced reporting for level funded ASO customers. Spira Care is at 80,000 members and was built on the belief that advanced primary care and the primary care component of health care being the front door of health care, would drive better outcomes, better outcomes for patients, better outcomes from a cost perspective with which then made affordability more achievable. And we're now up to nine care centers. This is season 22, episode 26 of America’s Healthcare Advocate. I’m Cary Hall. Learn more about the information on today’s show and more by calling 816-467-2145, or visit: https://bluekc.com/sgvalue Need help or have something to share? Send me a message. Contact Cary Hall, America's Healthcare Advocate: https://www.americashealthcareadvocate.com/contact-us

    Small Group - Blue KC Has Many Plan Options For Small Business

  8. Aug 15

    Report Card on your Retirement Plan

    Remember when your kids came home with their report cards and how that felt? What if the difference between a good retirement and a great retirement isn't just how much you've saved... but the strategy behind it? Rick Dwyer has created a way to analyze the strategy in your retirement. He created SageonRQ.ai, where you will find the tools to verify your strategy, because with retirement decisions every decision affects another and the SageonRQ algorithm will show you opportunities to strengthen your retirement. Listen and learn, the financial Doctor is in the house. This is season 22, episode 19 of America’s Healthcare Advocate. I’m Cary Hall. After the show, visit: https://sageonrq.ai/

    Report Card on your Retirement Plan
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My name is Cary Hall and I have a strong desire to seperate Fact from Fiction and empower my fellow Americans to cancel out (not add to) the noise and confusion in the US healthcare system by bringing you curated information, a powerful group of healthcare providers, experts, practitioners, authors, and inventors, plus related business and industry leaders for every episode of my show. My goal is to enable you to become an expert in your own healthcare management. It will save your time, save your money, and considerably reduce the effort needed to accomplish it. Most people, when faced with a medical or healthcare decision, are often in for a complex and uphill battle finding and accessing the options available to them or even sorting through the available options to find the best one for them. I will continue to be a reliable and trusted source for expert-level information and advice about the nuances of healthcare and health insurance and a guide and advocate for every American when making important decisions about their personal healthcare and also when they are a caregiver and helping their spouse, parent, child, sibling or friend.

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