Oliver Wyman Health Podcast
Health & Wellness Podcasts
The Oliver Wyman Health Podcast features conversations with leaders who are pioneering the transformation of the health market. Oliver Wyman’s Health & Life Sciences Practice is a leader in value-based, consumer-centric healthcare, and serves clients in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical devices, provider, and payer sectors. Topics covered in this series include the business challenges of transforming healthcare from volume to value, consumer engagement, consumer experience, digital health, care delivery models, strategy, leadership, and organization. Oliver Wyman is a global leader in management consulting that combines deep industry knowledge with specialized expertise in strategy, operations, risk management, and organization transformation. Oliver Wyman is a wholly owned subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan Companies [NYSE: MMC].
Location:
United States
Description:
The Oliver Wyman Health Podcast features conversations with leaders who are pioneering the transformation of the health market. Oliver Wyman’s Health & Life Sciences Practice is a leader in value-based, consumer-centric healthcare, and serves clients in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical devices, provider, and payer sectors. Topics covered in this series include the business challenges of transforming healthcare from volume to value, consumer engagement, consumer experience, digital health, care delivery models, strategy, leadership, and organization. Oliver Wyman is a global leader in management consulting that combines deep industry knowledge with specialized expertise in strategy, operations, risk management, and organization transformation. Oliver Wyman is a wholly owned subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan Companies [NYSE: MMC].
Twitter:
@OWHealthEditor
Language:
English
Episodes
Providers, Payers Readying For New Medicare Bundled Payment
10/27/2025
In this episode of the Oliver Wyman Health Podcast, Deirdre Baggot speaks with Eddie Qureshi, founder & CEO of Rainfall Health, about the new federal TEAM Medicare payment model launching in January. They explain what the five‑year mandatory bundled payment means for hospitals, how providers and payers can prepare, and why TEAM could be an opportunity to accelerate scalable value‑based care.
Duration:00:17:29
How Academic Medical Centers Can React To Growing Pressures
7/11/2025
In this episode, Oliver Wyman’s Igor Belokrinitsky and Adam Reich, Senior Vice President for Business Strategy at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, explore the future of academic medical centers (AMCs). They discuss how AMCs are evolving from traditional destination-based healthcare to forming closer partnerships with community hospitals. This shift aims to expand access to cutting-edge medical research and expertise, bringing high-quality care closer to patients’ homes worldwide.
Duration:00:18:49
Evaluating Health Technology: Value, Impact, ROI
6/24/2025
Join Oliver Wyman’s Ran Strul and Caroline Pearson, Executive Director of the Peterson Health Technology Institute (PHTI), as they explore how technology is transforming healthcare affordability and outcomes. Discover PHTI’s mission to provide independent, evidence-based assessments of digital health tools that matter most to employers, health plans, and health systems. From managing depression, hypertension, diabetes, to musculoskeletal conditions, this episode dives into what works—and what doesn’t—in digital health.
Duration:00:23:21
Enhancing Primary Care By Integrating Virtualists
4/8/2025
In this episode, experts Rupal Badani, MD from Cedars Sinai, and Ethan Fischer from K Health, along with Ran Strul from Oliver Wyman, discuss strategies for integrating virtualists into primary care. They emphasize the significance of fostering trust between traditional in-person physicians and virtualists.
Duration:00:31:00
Community-Based Solutions Improve Access To Care In Medicaid
3/5/2025
In this episode, we delve into the challenges and strategies for improving health outcomes for Medicaid beneficiaries. Systemic barriers often hinder access to the right care at the right time and place, complicating the coordination of care across various settings.
Duration:00:21:49
Fostering Fortitude: A New Approach To Clinician Burnout
1/9/2025
In this episode, we tackle the pressing issue of clinician burnout, a pervasive challenge affecting nearly half of all physicians today. Despite various initiatives aimed at alleviating burnout, healthcare leaders often overlook the complex factors at play.
Join Dan Shellenbarger, Stephen Hippler, MD, and Larry Weinzimmer, Ph.D. as they share their groundbreaking research on the role of fortitude in combating burnout. Discover how qualities like grit, passion, and perseverance can significantly influence a clinician's ability to manage stress and maintain wellbeing.
Duration:00:15:00
From Pregnancy to Menopause, Integrating Women’s Healthcare
6/20/2024
Women face a fractured healthcare environment. In this podcast, two innovators share how they are integrating women’s healthcare into the broader ecosystem.
Duration:00:16:53
The Role Lifestyle Changes Play In Diabetes, Obesity Care
3/28/2024
Oliver Wyman’s Sam Glick and Virta Health’s Kevin Kumler examine how lifestyle changes can improve metabolic health, as well as the seismic growth of GLP-1s.
Duration:00:21:22
Intermountain Health Pushing Further Into Value-Based Care
12/14/2023
In this podcast, Intermountain CEO Rob Allen details the health system’s commitment to value-based models, as well as efforts to simplify processes for clinicians.
Duration:00:18:10
Remaking Healthcare To Leverage GLP-1s, AI, Other Innovations
8/15/2023
In this podcast, Oliver Wyman’s Sam Glick talks about the need for healthcare leaders to be strategic when it comes to adopting innovation.
Duration:00:17:11
A Burning Platform For Incumbents To Transform The Industry
8/9/2023
Healthcare organizations must reinvent healthcare from the inside, says Craig Samitt, MD, CEO of the national physician enterprise division of Surround Care.
Duration:00:21:22
How Buying A Clinic A Washer, Dryer Improved Access To Care
4/4/2023
Arkansas BlueCross BlueShield is using out-of-the-box thinking to find ways of increasing access to care and reducing health disparities in the largely rural state.
Duration:00:25:54
Creating A More Personalized Model For Primary Care
3/8/2023
In this podcast, Jack Stoddard, CEO of Patina Health details why primary care must evolve to better meet patient needs and improve the patient experience.
Duration:00:22:23
Reinventing The Tech Stack
3/6/2023
Healthcare needs to redefine what innovation means for care delivery. Implicit in that is an acknowledgement that technology and innovation are not synonymous. Santiago Doria of Oliver Wyman sits down with Ashwini Zenooz of Commure to discuss ways leaders can deploy new technologies to anchor specific goals that put clinicians and patients at the center.
Duration:00:26:49
Building A Sustainable Workforce
3/6/2023
Houston Methodist embarked on an ambitious journey to maximize the use of technology to reimagine its workforce model. That includes a virtual ICU, tele-nurses doing patient intake and discharge, and artificial intelligence helping identify staff training needs. It’s resulting in clinicians being able to spend more time at the bedside. Tom Robinson of Oliver Wyman and Roberta Schwartz, CIO of Houston Methodist discuss the organization's mission to build a sustainable workforce.
Duration:00:30:02
Tackling Drug Shortages, High Prices
2/15/2023
Civica Rx is poised to broaden its impact on the drug manufacturing supply chain in 2023 with the opening of its first production plant. Civica’s president and CEO discusses the company’s business model and plans for the future in this podcast.
Duration:00:19:03
Is Specialty Care The Next Frontier For Telemedicine?
2/7/2023
In this podcast with Oliver Wyman’s Ann Kaplan, Wessler details how specialty care providers can catch up to primary care when it comes to utilizing telehealth.
Duration:00:20:42
Bar Is Set Higher For Companies Seeking Investments
1/19/2023
In this podcast, Kelsey Maguire, Managing Director of Sandbox Industries and the Blue Venture Fund and Akshay Agarway, MD, Partner of Oliver Wyman dissect the macroeconomic and microeconomic trends impacting healthcare and investors.
Duration:00:19:04
Is Specialty Care The Next Frontier For Telemedicine?
1/4/2023
Jeff Wessler, Founder and CEO of Heartbeat Health joins our podcast to discuss how telehealth isn’t just for primary care anymore. Specialty care providers are breaking into the arena and offering patients new ways to access care.
Duration:00:20:41
Moving Beyond the Low Hanging Fruit in Digital Health
7/19/2022
The record pace of investment in healthcare spurred a lot of innovation, but now it’s time to tackle more complex problems.
Duration:00:20:29