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Journal

Writing & media.

Essays, talks, press, and podcast episodes on value-based care, healthcare entrepreneurship, and building systems that reach people.

Selected work

Ideas from the field.

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Collage of moments at the AltaMed Inland Empire Health Policy Summit

Building the Bridge: AltaMed Inland Empire Health Policy Summit

Healthcare access, workforce resilience, and health equity in the Inland Empire, discussed with leaders from across the community.

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VoyageLA: Exploring Life & Business with Alex Yarijanian

The origin of Carenodes, bootstrapped growth, and the administrative barriers to care.

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5 Contract Clauses Killing Your Reimbursement

The HBMA webinar recording: contract provisions that create avoidable downstream billing failures.

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Why Most Value-Based Care Contracts Fail Before They Start

What creates misalignment in payer-provider arrangements before the first 90 days are over.

Health 2.0 Outstanding Leadership Award

Acceptance remarks on building companies for communities the industry has often overlooked.

Lindsay Clancy: Examining the Healthcare System’s Failures

A discussion of the care coordination breakdowns raised by the civil complaint.

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Building Carenodes: What 51 Million Americans Taught Me

Lessons from taking a digital healthcare business from an idea to national operations.

Your Billing Problem Started in the Contract

Why recurring underpayment and denials may begin in contract terms rather than claims workflows.

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Becker’s Hospital Review: Payer Strategy

Perspective on the changing relationship between providers, payers, and contracting infrastructure.

The $58M Medicaid Contract

How a maternal-health value-based agreement was structured and what the work revealed.

Should You Join the Payer Network?

Thinking through the market, operations, and reimbursement implications of a new payer contract.

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