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The Strategy Catalyst Dispatch
The Strategy Catalyst Dispatch brings healthcare strategy professionals into the room with leading health system executives to explore how innovation, clinical leadership, and enterprise strategy intersect. Designed for strategy executives, physician leaders, and healthcare innovators, the podcast offers actionable takeaways to help organizations drive both clinical and financial impact.
Episodes
- The Strategy Catalyst Dispatch
The Strategist in Brief: October 29, 2026
This week’s edition includes a What’s Next Digest for Q4 that covers policy predictions post-midterms, Oscar Health’s growth, and AI spend trends, plus two M&A…
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The Strategist in Brief: October 15, 2026
This week’s episode covers CEO Forum insights on affordability and AI, the HRSA 340B rebate pilot launch, CVS 340B lawsuits, Medicaid work requirement delays…
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How Children's Health Decides Where to Grow Next
In this episode of The Strategy Catalyst Dispatch, Dennis Thé, Vice President of Strategy and Business Development at Children's Health System of Texas, walks…
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The Strategist in Brief: October 1, 2026
This week's episode covers the shifting musculoskeletal care landscape, AI use case ROI data, Ascension's Mercy Care sale to Aetna, and Counsel Health joining…
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The Strategist in Brief: September 17, 2026
This week's episode covers how strategy teams use generative AI, physician alignment strategies, CEO tenure benchmarks, and Johnson & Johnson's new 340B claims…
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The Strategist in Brief: September 3, 2026
This week's episode covers Epic's new Ergo Visit platform and Ochsner's early experience, rising employer health costs, and a MyChart phishing scam targeting…
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Inside Oura's Counsel Health Integration: Consumer AI and the Front Door to Care
In this episode of The Strategy Catalyst Dispatch, Ricky Bloomfield, MD, Chief Medical Officer at Oura, walks us through the company's partnership with Counsel…
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The Strategist in Brief: August 6, 2026
This week, our quarterly What's Next Digest offers four predictions on payer mix headwinds, 340B claims-data mandates, AI-enabled cyberattacks, and…
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Care Model Engineering at Advocate Health: A Product Lens on How Care Gets Built
In this episode of The Strategy Catalyst Dispatch, Shoeb Sitafalwalla, Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer at Advocate Health, walks us…
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The Strategist in Brief: July 23, 2026
This week's episode covers Amazon's evolving One Medical strategy and health system partnerships, physician specialty happiness survey results, and HHS's delay…
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The Strategist in Brief: July 9, 2026
The CY2027 OPPS proposed rule (340B cut, site-neutral imaging), Cassidy's 340B reform discussion draft, and Optum's negotiations to sell New York specialty…
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The Strategist in Brief: June 25, 2026
This week's episode covers the House vote to defund the WISeR prior authorization pilot, Eli Lilly's 340B enforcement actions, Nebraska Medicine's National…
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Priority Fog: The Gap Between Access Ambition and Execution
THMA-Tegria research finds 82% of systems call access a strategic pillar but most have trouble executing. We unpack the finance gap, post-acute blind spots…
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The Strategist in Brief: June 11, 2026
This week's episode covers proposed Medicaid payment caps, insights from chief physician executives, the medical student shortage, Eli Lilly's 340B ultimatum…
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The Strategist in Brief: May 28, 2026
This week's episode covers four hard truths shaping AI strategy for 2026, new CMS rules overhauling the ACA marketplaces, Q1 margin recovery, and a six-month…
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The Strategist in Brief: May 14, 2026
This week's episode covers Q1 hospital earnings, UnitedHealthcare's prior authorization rollback, the proposed CJR-X model, J-1 visa delays, and CMS's Medicaid…
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How St. Charles Turned Clinical Quality into Payer Leverage: From Seven MA Payers to One
We dig into how St. Charles Health System, a four-hospital not-for-profit in Central Oregon and the sole major provider across a 32,000-square-mile service…
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The Strategist in Brief: April 30, 2026
This week's episode covers five big ideas from the Spring CSO Forum, CVS's new pharmacy-only stores, Amazon and Walmart's competing GLP-1 programs, Baylor…
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2026 Summit Recap: Service Line Rationalization, Scenario Planning, and AI
This episode recaps three key themes from the 2026 Strategy Catalyst Summit: what it takes to move service line rationalization from theory to action, what a…
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The Strategist in Brief: April 16, 2026
This week's episode covers the finalized Medicare Advantage rate increase, new research on AI scribes, Anthropic's unreleased Claude Mythos model and…
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The Strategist in Brief: April 2, 2026
This week's episode covers the Sutter Health and Allina Health merger announcement, CMS administrator Mehmet Oz's comments on AI agents for Medicare, key…
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The Case for Not Merging: UW Health's Joint Operating Agreement with UPH-Meriter
Dr. Peter Newcomer, SVP and Chief Operating Officer at UW Health, walks us through how two organizations that used to compete built a financially aligned…
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The Strategist in Brief: March 12, 2026
This week's episode covers the American Medical Association's new maternity payment codes, our new CSO Advisory Council, health system access strategy survey…
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Service Line Disruptors 2026: Pay-Viders, PE, and the Threat You're Not Watching
In this episode, we share highlights from a recent Strategy Catalyst webinar where Liz Jones, Research Director, walked strategy leaders through three…
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The Strategist in Brief: February 26, 2026
This week's episode covers Humana's acquisition of MaxHealth, the Trump administration's antitrust appeal, the Supreme Court's tariff ruling, CMS's new ACCESS…
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The Strategist in Brief: February 12, 2026
This week's episode covers the end of the proposed 340B rebate pilot, healthcare earnings highlights from HCA, UnitedHealth, and Amazon, the MA rate…
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The Strategist in Brief: January 29, 2026
This week's episode covers key takeaways from the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference, the bipartisan healthcare reform package in Congress, insights from our…
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The Midlife Spend: Memorial Hermann on Partnering with MIDI Health for Women's Health
Women in midlife are the highest healthcare spenders on the managed care side and women use healthcare more than men, even when you take obstetrics out. In…
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The Strategist in Brief: January 15, 2026
This week's episode explores OpenAI's new healthcare-focused AI products, Cencora's new majority stake in OneOncology, the 340B rebate pilot ruling, and our…
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Why You Can’t Hire Your Way Out of Access Problems: Inside Inova’s Virtual Capacity and Throughput Strategy
In this episode of The Strategy Catalyst Dispatch, we unpack why expanding a physician workforce alone can't fully resolve access challenges and how Inova…
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The Strategist in Brief: December 11, 2025
This week's edition recaps our favorite intel and insights from the Fall 2025 CSO Forum held in San Diego. We also take a look at the new ACCESS model unveiled…
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Workplace Culture as a Strategic Pillar: Lessons from Wellstar Health System, feat. CSO Matt Terry
In this episode of The Strategy Catalyst Dispatch, we explore a commonly cited theme in strategic plans that rarely gets commensurate investment: culture…
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The Strategist in Brief: November 6, 2025
This week's edition looks at Intermountain Health's pediatric growth strategy, Ballad Health's lawsuit against UnitedHealth, AI highlights from the HLTH 2025…
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The Strategist in Brief: October 23, 2025
This week's episode covers the shifting landscape for CMS innovation payment models, the challenges that the government shutdown poses for AMCs, Amazon…
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The Strategist in Brief: October 9, 2025
This week’s episode covers the ongoing federal government shutdown and its implications for health systems, including lapses in telehealth and hospital-at-home…
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Heard Around the C-Suite: The AI Arms Race and Other Insights from the Spring CFO & COO Forums
CFOs and COOs are navigating one of the most turbulent years in recent memory since 2020. From historic Medicaid cuts to escalating battles with payers, health…
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Tariffs and Strategic Planning Under Policy Volatility
As the Trump administration continues its tariff agenda, health systems are grappling with a new wave of disruption, spanning medical goods, supplies, capital…
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The Strategist in Brief: April 17, 2025
This episode covers the Trump administration's rollout of reciprocal tariffs on 60 trading partners, followed by a 90-day pause after market turmoil, with…
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Virtual Second Opinions with Jarrett Fowler of USCIPP
Health systems are increasingly turning to virtual second opinions (VSOs) as a strategic lever to extend global reach, differentiate in competitive markets…
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The Strategist in Brief: April 3, 2025
This episode covers the merger between hospital-at-home operators Dispatch Health and Medically Home, which combines health system and payer-oriented products…
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The Strategist in Brief: March 20, 2025
This episode covers insights from the Strategy Catalyst Summit (Feb 2025), covering direct-to-employer healthcare partnerships, Washington policy shifts under…
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The Strategist in Brief: March 6, 2025
This episode covers the hospital-at-home market through interviews with leaders from Mass General Brigham, Mayo Clinic, Advocate Health, and Mount Sinai…
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The Strategist in Brief: February 13, 2025
This episode covers breaking news about NIH's steep cuts to indirect cost rates for universities and medical centers, potentially creating $100+ million…
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The Strategist in Brief: January 30, 2025
This episode covers key insights from the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, where non-profit health systems focused on operational efficiency, strategic…
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The Strategist in Brief: January 16, 2025
This episode covers insights from the 2024 Fall CFO Forum, where 41 health system CFOs discussed priorities now closely aligned with strategy leaders…
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The Strategist in Brief: December 12, 2024
This episode covers breaking news about Walgreens reportedly in talks to sell itself to private equity firm Sycamore Partners, which could provide needed cash…
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Heard Around the C-Suite: Insights from the CPE Forum
Chief Physician Executives (CPEs) are uniquely positioned to bridge clinical care and strategic goals. In our latest Heard Around the C-Suite episode, we…
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The Strategist in Brief: November 21, 2024
This episode covers the CSO Forum in Phoenix, where health system executives discussed revenue diversification and capital constraints, with key insights on…
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Heard Around the C-Suite: CEO Insights on the Future of Healthcare
In today’s rapidly evolving healthcare landscape, health system CEOs have dozens of priorities on their plate—often simultaneously. While strategy leaders…
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The Strategist in Brief: November 8, 2024
This episode covers breaking news about Republican gains in recent elections potentially giving the GOP unified federal government control, which could impact…
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The Strategist in Brief: October 24, 2024
This episode features an interview with Cone Health CSO Chris Cornue about the system's decision to join Risant Health, driven by their long-term shift into…