PopHealth Podcast

Gavin Ward
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PopHealth Podcast is here to provide various thought leaders of population health the opportunity and platform to discuss the different dynamics of population health, care transitions, and readmission prevention

  1. SEP 30

    Pair Team VP Megan Carlson on How Her Team Enables ECM Services Via Existing Local Organizations

    Pair Team VP Megan Carlson shares how her background in building care navigation systems (e.g. Unite Us) has equipped her to help Pair team enable existing organizations to launch enhanced care management services.  Pair Team is now one of the largest ECM organizations on California.

    26 min

  2. AUG 26

    PopHealth Podcast Executive Producer Ryan Iwamoto Looks Back on 10 Years of the Podcast

    Ryan Iwamoto, Executive Producer of PopHealth Podcast and Co-Founder of 24 Hour Home Care, joins the show to look back on 10 years of the podcast and some of his favorite memories as he reminisces with host Gavin Ward.

    23 min

  3. JUL 31

    California Association of Health Plans President and CEO Charles Bacchi- 2025 Realities, Upcoming CAHP Conference

    Charles returns to the show, touching on his past as a soccer coach before sharing the realities health plans are facing in California.  Charles also shares with host Gavin Ward about the upcoming fall CAHP conference, including how leaders from health plans, providers, and DHCS will be attending to present as well as network.

    39 min

  4. JUN 23

    Former DHCS Leader Athena Chapman and Elizabeth Evenson Provide an Update on Medi-Cal Transformation and CalAIM

    Former DHCS leader Athena Chapman, President of Chapman Consulting, and Chapman's VP Elizabeth Evenson join host Gavin Ward to give an update on Medi-Cal Transformation/CalAIM, including touching on the 2024 annual report recently released by DHCS on Community Supports.

    41 min

  5. MAY 27

    Health Net and Vivant Health Partner to Improve Patient Care in Dignity Health Sacramento Hospitals

    Health Net's Regional Medical Director Dr. Anshul Dixit and Vivant Health's Utilization Management Review Supervisor Kathleen Loredo share how they partner together with Dignity Health's greater Sacramento hospitals, including one recent effort that reduced unnecessary hospital stays by 400 while increasing provider show up rates by 20% after discharge.

    40 min

  6. APR 28

    Med-Cal Eligibility Update with Medi-Cal Expert Lisa Ramsey

    Lisa Ramsey, a former Medi-Cal worker who created Medi-Cal Consulting Services, joins the show to share about updates on Medi-Cal eligibility, including reminders about some often misunderstood limits on income requirements.

    35 min

  7. MAR 24

    California Association of Area Agencies on Aging's Christina Mills on the Aging and Disability Communities

    Chrisina Mills, a leading advocate for the disability community, was recently appointed to serve as the Executive Director for the California Association of Area Agencies on Aging.  Christina, who was born with osteogenesis imperfecta (bones can easily break), has led a 25 year career in advocacy for the disabled community and looks forward to supporting older adults with initiatives that often align with both the aging and disability communities.

    38 min

  8. FEB 24

    DHCS' Community Supports & ECM' Primary & Secondary Measures with MCQMD Section Chief Joanna Allboe

    California Department of Health Care Services' Joanna Allboe joins the show to share about the continued evolution of California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal (CalAIM)/Medi-Cal transformation as well as how managed care organizations (MCOs) will start to be measured in 2025 and beyond.

    32 min
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PopHealth Podcast is here to provide various thought leaders of population health the opportunity and platform to discuss the different dynamics of population health, care transitions, and readmission prevention

Information

  • Creator
    Gavin Ward
  • Years Active
    2015 - 2025
  • Episodes
    98
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    Copyright © 2015 POPHEALTHPODCAST
  • Show Website
    PopHealth Podcast

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