Becker’s Payer Issues Podcast
by Becker's Healthcare
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AI, Simplicity, and Collaboration: Redesigning Medicare Advantage Care Delivery with Dr. Saria Saccocio
May 5, 2026
7m 55s
Hasan Shanawani, Associate Chief Medical Officer at Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey
May 5, 2026
20m 27s
Advancing Rural Health Access and Innovation with Brendan Harris & Patti Jackson-Gehris
May 4, 2026
23m 52s
Three Years of Virtual Blue and the Future of Virtual First Care at Blue Shield of California
May 3, 2026
13m 34s
Expanding Consumer Choice and Innovation in ICHRA Models with Alan Silver
May 2, 2026
4m 24s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5/5/26 | AI, Simplicity, and Collaboration: Redesigning Medicare Advantage Care Delivery with Dr. Saria Saccocio✨ | Medicare AdvantageAI in healthcare+4 | Dr. Saria Saccocio | Essence HealthcareHippocratic AI | — | Medicare AdvantageAI workflows+4 | — | 7m 55s | |
| 5/5/26 | Hasan Shanawani, Associate Chief Medical Officer at Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey✨ | healthcare costsAI in healthcare+4 | Hasan Shanawani | Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | — | healthcare costsAI+4 | — | 20m 27s | |
| 5/4/26 | Advancing Rural Health Access and Innovation with Brendan Harris & Patti Jackson-Gehris✨ | rural healthhealthcare access+3 | Brendan HarrisPatti Jackson-Gehris | UPMCUPMC for You+1 | Williamsport | rural healthcaretelehealth expansion+3 | — | 23m 52s | |
| 5/3/26 | Three Years of Virtual Blue and the Future of Virtual First Care at Blue Shield of California✨ | Virtual CareHealthcare Costs+3 | Tim Lieb | Blue Shield of California | — | Virtual Bluehealthcare+3 | — | 13m 34s | |
| 5/2/26 | Expanding Consumer Choice and Innovation in ICHRA Models with Alan Silver✨ | consumer choiceinnovation+4 | Alan Silver | Ambetter Health SolutionsHippocratic AI | — | ICHRAconsumer choice+4 | — | 4m 24s | |
| 5/1/26 | Building Trust and AI Driven Member Engagement in Health Plans with Howard Weiss✨ | trust in healthcareAI in health plans+3 | Howard Weiss | EmblemHealthHippocratic AI | — | trustAI+5 | — | 6m 36s | |
| 4/30/26 | HR1 Effects and How Organizations Can Prepare for Them✨ | health plansHR1+4 | Trey Sutten | Becker’s Healthcare | — | HR1health plans+5 | Siftwell | 9m 31s | |
| 4/29/26 | AI-Driven, Personalized Care for Chronic Conditions and How Payers Are Adapting Through Digital Health Innovation✨ | AI in healthcarechronic conditions+4 | Dr. Lisa Shah | — | — | AIchronic conditions+5 | Twin Health | 20m 26s | |
| 4/29/26 | How Dementia Care is Reshaping Population Health Strategy✨ | dementia carepopulation health strategy+3 | Dirk Soenksen | — | — | dementiapopulation health+3 | Ceresti Health | 16m 36s | |
| 4/28/26 | How Independent Providers Can Turn Insight Into Action✨ | independent providerspayer insights+4 | Megan Zakrewsky | — | — | independent providerspayer insights+5 | Veradigm | 11m 47s | |
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| 4/27/26 | Rob Andrews, Chief Executive Officer of the Health Transformation Alliance | In this episode, Rob Andrews, Chief Executive Officer of the Health Transformation Alliance, joins the podcast to discuss the ongoing pressures and competition within Medicare Advantage. He shares insights on chronic care initiatives and the importance of collaboration and compromise between carriers and providers to improve outcomes and control costs. | — | ||||||
| 4/27/26 | ICHRA’s Rise and the Future of Employer Sponsored Benefits with Brandy Thompson | In this episode, Brandy Thompson, Chief Executive Officer, Benefitbay, discusses the rapid growth of ICHRA models and why large employers are increasingly embracing choice driven benefits. She also shares how education, broker alignment, and evolving payer strategies are shaping the future of employer sponsored healthcare. | — | ||||||
| 4/26/26 | Harlon Pickett, President of Eagle Care Health Solutions | In this episode, Harlon Pickett, President of Eagle Care Health Solutions, joins the podcast to discuss the impact of direct primary care models on patient outcomes and cost. He shares how designing more effective networks and leveraging data can help create a more personalized and efficient healthcare experience. | — | ||||||
| 4/25/26 | Rebuilding Trust and Letting Consumers Drive Healthcare with Joseph Leach | This episode recorded live at the Becker’s Spring 2026 Payer Issues Roundtable features Joseph Leach, Market President, Oscar Health. He discusses the growing trust gap in healthcare, how empowering consumers through tools like ICHRA and AI can improve outcomes, and why meeting members where they are is key to balancing cost and experience.In collaboration with Hippocratic AI. | — | ||||||
| 4/24/26 | Reducing Administrative Friction & Advancing AI Driven Care with Dr. Benjamin Kornitzer | This episode recorded live at the Becker’s Spring 2026 Payer Issues Roundtable features Dr. Benjamin Kornitzer, Chief Medical Officer, Aetna, discussing efforts to reduce administrative friction, streamline prior authorization, and improve care navigation for members and providers. He also shares how Aetna is leveraging AI, interoperability, and digital tools to enhance real time decision making, build trust, and deliver more personalized, efficient healthcare experiences.In collaboration with Hippocratic AI. | — | ||||||
| 4/23/26 | Driving Affordability and Simplicity in Payer Strategy with Christina Ott | This episode recorded live at the Becker’s Spring 2026 Payer Issues Roundtable features Christina Ott, Chief Strategy Officer, Quartz, discussing how her organization is tackling rising costs by rethinking the payer role, improving care navigation, and reducing friction for members. She also shares insights on aligning digital investments and using AI to streamline workflows, enhance communication, and create a more seamless healthcare experience.In collaboration with Hippocratic AI. | — | ||||||
| 4/22/26 | The Evolving Role of Provider Data in Healthcare | This episode recorded live at the Becker’s Spring 2026 Payer Issues Roundtable features Robert Holzer, Strategy and Innovation Leader, Next Horizon Innovations, Martin Luethi, Chief Technology Officer, Quest Analytics, & Bob Tavernier, Solution Executive, Quest Analytics. The conversation explores how provider data has evolved from a compliance requirement into a strategic driver of AI readiness, network performance, regulatory alignment, and member trust, emphasizing the need for clean data, strong governance, and scalable infrastructure.This episode is sponsored by Quest Analytics. | — | ||||||
| 4/21/26 | Reframing GLP-1 Strategy Through Clinical Outcomes, Behavior Change, & True ROI | This episode recorded live at the Becker’s 16th Annual Meeting features Jennifer Jones, Director of Clinical Solutions, Noom. Here, she explores how GLP-1s should be viewed as part of chronic disease management rather than a pharmacy-only cost issue, and how payer strategies that combine medication access with behavior change programs can improve long-term clinical outcomes and deliver more sustainable ROI.This episode is sponsored by Noom Health. | — | ||||||
| 4/20/26 | Harnessing AI to Deliver Breakthrough Healthcare Value, Faster | In this episode, Sundar Srinivasan, President – Health Plan & Life Sciences, NTT DATA, discusses how payer organizations are moving from AI pilots to scaled deployments, focusing on high impact use cases, operational transformation, and the importance of trust, governance, and measurable ROI.This episode is sponsored by NTT DATA. | — | ||||||
| 4/19/26 | Tackling Healthcare Affordability and Chronic Disease at Blue Shield of California with Mike Stuart | In this episode, Mike Stuart, President and CEO of Blue Shield of California, shares how his finance and provider background shapes a systems approach to improving health outcomes, strengthening provider partnerships, and addressing rising healthcare costs. He also discusses the growing impact of chronic disease and why collaboration across the healthcare ecosystem is critical to making care more affordable and accessible. | — | ||||||
| 4/18/26 | Steve Yurjevich, Chief Executive Officer of Optum Insight’s Payer Market and a member of the American Heart Association Executive Leadership Team | In this episode, Steve Yurjevich, Chief Executive Officer of Optum Insight’s Payer Market and a member of the American Heart Association Executive Leadership Team, joins the podcast to discuss rising healthcare costs and the growing adoption of AI across the payer landscape. He shares how the industry is shifting from pre-pay models to true avoidance strategies, focusing on preventing unnecessary care and improving overall system efficiency. | — | ||||||
| 4/17/26 | Jeff Bak, President and Chief Executive Officer of Imagine360 | In this episode, Jeff Bak, President and Chief Executive Officer of Imagine360, joins the podcast to discuss improving health literacy for seniors and the role it plays in driving better outcomes. He shares how proactive care strategies and smarter use of utilization data can help create a more effective, patient-centered healthcare system. | — | ||||||
| 4/16/26 | How Health Plans Can Build Scalable High Performance Infrastructure to Support Growing Complexity & Enable AI | In this episode, Rob Duffy, Chief Technology Officer at HealthEdge, explores how modern cloud infrastructure and deeply integrated AI can help health plans manage rising complexity, reduce administrative costs, and scale operations. He shares why platform consolidation and embedded AI are critical to staying competitive and sustaining performance in a rapidly evolving healthcare landscape.This episode is sponsored by HealthEdge. | — | ||||||
| 4/14/26 | Closing the Cancer Care Gap: How Integrated Screening and Treatment Support Improve Outcomes | In this episode, Alexandra Anderson, Head of Health Plan Sales & Partnerships at Color, explores how proactive, personalized screening and integrated care pathways can improve early cancer detection and reduce total cost of care for cancer. She shares insights on Color's approach to identifying risk & closing screening gaps, increasing member engagement, and the importance of timely, proactive interventions along the cancer care continuum.This episode is sponsored by Color. | — | ||||||
| 4/9/26 | Pankhuri Sharma, Strategy and Operations Leader at Humana | In this episode, Pankhuri Sharma, Strategy and Operations Leader at Humana, joins the podcast to discuss gaps between population health strategy and real-world outcomes. She shares key priorities for effective population health programs and offers practical advice for emerging leaders navigating the evolving healthcare landscape. | — | ||||||
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