Reconstructing Healthcare: Innovative Solutions For Employers To Lower Their Healthcare Costs

Topics: Misaligned incentives Fraud, Waste, and Abuse Health Insurance Consumer spend Medicare National Provider Identifier In this episode, Michael introduces you to Marshall Allen, an Investigative Journalist at ProPublica. Join us as we discuss how Marshall pierces the healthcare facade by investigating and reporting on stories that highlight the dysfunctional elements of the healthcare system that negatively impact consumers and patients, including his most recent article, “Health Insurers Make It Easy for Scammers to Steal Millions. Who Pays? You”.  Here’s a glance at what we discuss in this episode: ProPublica focuses on investigative journalism that is in the public’s interest related to the abuse of power across industries  What inspired Marshall to become an investigative healthcare journalist and the types of stories he focuses on How fraud, waste, and abuse impacts all consumers of healthcare  How a personal trainer without a medical license was able to obtain multiple National Provi