The Policy Stack

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Most healthcare decisions that shape your life never make headlines. The Policy Stack, hosted by Lisa Bari, takes you inside the rooms where those decisions are made, introducing you to the leaders, policymakers, and innovators shaping how American healthcare works. Each episode unpacks the laws, regulations, funding streams, and operational frameworks that must align for any policy to succeed. We go beyond what policies are to reveal how they are implemented, why they succeed or fail, and who holds the real levers of change.

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  1. Seven Models in One Quarter: Making Sense of CMS's Most Aggressive Innovation Push Ever

    2월 9일

    Seven Models in One Quarter: Making Sense of CMS's Most Aggressive Innovation Push Ever

    Liza Health’s Duncan Reece reflects on decades in value-based care, from Medicare Health Support's failure to today's explosion of CMMI models launching simultaneously. He shares why MSSP's $10 billion in savings gets unfairly criticized against Medicare's $1.2 trillion spend, how Iora built its own EHR from scratch when nothing else worked for accountable care, and why the real unlock isn't payment models: it's separating necessary accountability from unnecessary complexity while technology costs plummet and AI adoption in healthcare outpaces every other industry.

    54분
  2. Finishing Interoperability: Inside CMS's Voluntary Framework and the Fight Against Portalitis

    2025. 12. 26.

    Finishing Interoperability: Inside CMS's Voluntary Framework and the Fight Against Portalitis

    Kristen Valdes from b.well reflects on building CMS's voluntary Health Technology Ecosystem framework after discovering that, despite a decade of interoperability policy, live demos showed only 1 out of 30+ providers could return data automatically. She shares lessons on community organizing when 500+ companies need coordination, but the government can't lead, why the real barriers are business and liability issues rather than technology, and how to prevent legacy players from relitigating settled policy when the goal is implementation, not debate.

    49분
  3. Where Are We Now? The State of Interoperability in Late 2025

    2025. 12. 08.

    Where Are We Now? The State of Interoperability in Late 2025

    Most healthcare decisions happen far from the headlines. The Policy Stack, hosted by Lisa Bari, reveals the people and processes shaping how American healthcare really works. From state leaders to industry innovators, each episode examines the laws, funding, and political realities behind the policies that shape care.

    40분
  4. How Current Healthcare Policy Could Reshape the Future of Value-based Care

    2025. 11. 10.

    How Current Healthcare Policy Could Reshape the Future of Value-based Care

    In this live episode from Innovaccer’s Mini-Xccelerate conference in DC, Blair Childs and Dave Johnson examine the sweeping policy and market shifts transforming U.S. healthcare. They discuss the move from government-designed systems toward market accountability, how “liberating data” is key to real value-based care, and why structural incentives, not funding, determine the pace of reform. With their deep experience in health policy and strategy, they offer a grounded look at where healthcare is heading, and what it will take to finally realign incentives for better outcomes.

    38분
  5. From Policy to Practice: The Real Work of Cross-Sector Data Sharing Implementation

    2025. 09. 25.

    From Policy to Practice: The Real Work of Cross-Sector Data Sharing Implementation

    Lisa Bari speaks with Timi Leslie about implementing California's groundbreaking data exchange framework, where healthcare organizations must share data across sectors for the first time. Timi shares lessons from her career in health IT policy, about why technical interoperability is just the beginning, and how to build trust between organizations that don’t usually work together: from hospitals to housing agencies.

    53분
  6. The AI Mirage: Why Healthcare's Administrative Burden Isn't a Technology Problem

    2025. 09. 09.

    The AI Mirage: Why Healthcare's Administrative Burden Isn't a Technology Problem

    Dan O'Neill reflects on 15 years in health technology, services, and policy after discovering that most healthcare administrative problems could have been solved decades ago. He shares lessons on why business model problems masquerade as technology challenges, how organizational inertia perpetuates inefficiency, and why "slapping AI on it" won't fix structural issues rooted in misaligned incentives.

    58분
  7. Untangling the Medicaid Maze: Why 56 Different Systems Make Coverage So Hard to Keep

    2025. 08. 25.

    Untangling the Medicaid Maze: Why 56 Different Systems Make Coverage So Hard to Keep

    Nikita Singareddy reflects on building technology for America's most complex healthcare system after discovering that 20% of Medicaid enrollees lose coverage due to bureaucratic failures. She shares lessons on why every government case is an "edge case," solving policy problems before building tech solutions, and maintaining an enrollee-first approach across 56 different state systems.

    52분
  8. The Capacity Gap: Leading Through Crisis, Constraints, and Impossible Choices

    2025. 08. 11.

    The Capacity Gap: Leading Through Crisis, Constraints, and Impossible Choices

    Kody Kinsley speaks with Lisa Bari to reflect on leading North Carolina’s $26 billion health agency through COVID-19, Medicaid expansion, and a behavioral health crisis. He shares lessons on making impossible choices, driving reform under pressure, and turning crises into opportunities.

    44분
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Most healthcare decisions that shape your life never make headlines. The Policy Stack, hosted by Lisa Bari, takes you inside the rooms where those decisions are made, introducing you to the leaders, policymakers, and innovators shaping how American healthcare works. Each episode unpacks the laws, regulations, funding streams, and operational frameworks that must align for any policy to succeed. We go beyond what policies are to reveal how they are implemented, why they succeed or fail, and who holds the real levers of change.

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    2025년 - 2026년
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