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The Other 80

English, Fitness / Keep-fit, 2 seasons, 22 episodes, 13 hours, 26 minutes
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The Other 80 podcast brings you real, honest dialogue about the things that help keep people healthy beyond traditional medical care – like housing, social connections and food – and the cutting edge policies and programs supporting whole person health. Join former White House advisor, entrepreneur and host Claudia Williams for deep conversations with the innovators, implementers and policymakers bringing these new models to life. We’ll talk about what’s working, what’s not and how to move towards whole person health rapidly and equitably across the US.
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What I've Learned So Far with Claudia Williams

When Claudia Williams started The Other 80 she was searching for evidence that whole person care – meaning the integration of social and medical care – is a viable model to bring more equity and health to all Americans. We started with some big questions. Can we flip the US healthcare system, making it more compassionate, more effective and more focused on health? Can we better address poverty's impact on health by integrating the often siloed worlds of medical and social care?In this episode Claudia sits down with her producer Avery Moore Kloss to discuss lessons learned and highlights from Season One and share what’s on deck for Season Two. We discuss what we learned in Season One: Data is the foundation of whole person health, but can also create new harmsOrganizations expert in sick care will not also be expert in community health We need new organizations and leaders combining these traits: health not sickness focused, the ability to scale, community-embeddedness and deep use of technology and dataSuccess requires ecosystem thinking, effective partnering and purposely balancing power differentials Addressing equity takes time and trustLearning in public – like we are doing on this podcast – is critically important to speed the national learning curve on health beyond medical careClaudia also shares her biggest takeaway:“Underneath a lot of this is just poverty and how hard it is to live in the United States if one is poor. And so I think the question that I'm still grappling with is how far should we go in putting on people who are working in health the responsibility of the impact of poverty? And one one way to answer that is to say, well look at all the resources that are in healthcare, yes, of course, this is what's making people not healthy. Of course, we should spend these resources on housing, on food on other things. Other people, though, are saying, but wait a minute, those people are delivering health services, they're not even delivering health services well, why should there be this expanded mandate for them?”About Our GuestClaudia Williams is a healthcare executive and entrepreneur who is passionate about creating the conditions, policies, systems and learning to enable health for all. Claudia was the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Manifest MedEx – one of the nation’s largest health data sharing initiatives. She served as Senior Advisor for Health Innovation and Technology at the White House under President Obama, building policies and programs for care transformation, data sharing, and precision health. Claudia is a graduate of Harvard’s Chan School of Public Health, where she earned her MS degree in Health Policy and Management. Claudia served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Botswana.Connect With UsFor more information on The Other 80 please visit our website - www.theother80.com. To connect with our team, please email claudia@theother80.com and follow us on twitter @claudiawilliams and LinkedIn.
7/26/202342 minutes, 56 seconds
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Health is Social Justice Work with Dr. Clemens Hong

For Dr. Clemens Hong, health is social justice work, rooted in the community-oriented primary care movement of the 1960s. He joins us for a powerful interview about on-the-ground implementation of whole person care in a county bigger than many countries. Dr. Hong leads community programs for LA County including housing supports, reentry and diversion programs, street-based outreach, and benefits navigation. We talk about the “mountain of challenges” people face when they return to the community from jail and prison, and the need to build the capacity and agency of community organizations and peer experts.We discuss: The impact of Intergenerational trauma, systemic racism and mass incarceration on healthDeep dives on reentry and housing for healthHis suggestions for CalAIM: broader eligibility, improved access to services, and making community supports an actual benefitCreating sustainable work and impactClemens shares the striking results from introducing community health workers with lived experience:"There's a study that's been done by the Transitions Clinic, and one of our partner sites, Santa Clara, where they showed that arrival to the first appointment after incarceration increased from 30% to 70%, with their hiring …  a community health worker with lived experience… Engagement is the foundation to anything we can do in delivering health to communities: engagement of the individual and the survivors of trauma, but also the communities organizations are really critical”Relevant Links Housing for Health - Housing For Health (lacounty.gov) Office of Diversion and Reentry - OFFICE OF DIVERSION AND REENTRY (lacounty.gov)Knitting Together Health and Social Services in Los AngelesImpact Report from Whole Person Care Pilots in Los Angeles [PDF]Community-Oriented Primary Care: A Path to Community DevelopmentAbout Our GuestDr Clemens Hong, MD, MPH, is Director of Community Programs for Los Angeles County Department of Health Services where he oversees multiple County programs including Housing for Health, the Office of Diversion and Reentry, Whole Person Care, My Health LA, CalAIM, and COVID-19 Testing. In 2006 he co-founded the Transitions Clinic with Dr. Emily Wang in San Francisco. He taught for several years at Harvard Medical School, and joined Massachusetts General Hospital as a primary care general internist and health services researcher.  Dr. Hong received his Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Washington and his Master’s Degree from Tufts University School of Medicine. He completed internal medicine training in the San Francisco General Hospital Primary Care Program at UCSF, as well as a general medicine fellowship at Harvard Medical School.Connect With UsFor more information on The Other 80 please visit our website - www.theother80.com. To connect with our team, please email claudia@theother80.com and...
7/12/202347 minutes, 36 seconds
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Breaking Stigma and Supporting Recovery with Corbin Petro

Nearly half of Americans have a family member or close friend who’s been addicted to drugs. And most are not getting the help they need. The US has a 94 percent treatment gap for substance use disorders. Treatments are expensive, ineffective, or they’re simply not available. Corbin Petro is on a mission to close this gap. She is the CEO and Co-Founder of Eleanor Health, providing evidence-based whole person care for people with substance use disorders and mental health needs. We discuss: That addiction is a treatable chronic disorder just like DiabetesThe negative consequences of separating the brain and the body in healthcare delivery and policyWhy she’s fired up about closing health equity gapsHow Medicaid founders can get paid for outcomes and pick the right marketsCorbin reminds us that we need to lean more on community health workers and other non-licensed experts:"One of the challenges with workforce is the belief that care needs to be delivered at all times by … a very expensive specialty clinician. And I think we need as a society to more embrace non-licensed people ... [such as] community health workers, peers, others who can really support and deliver great outcomes."Relevant LinksEleanor Health websiteIn Recovery with Eleanor Health (podcast with co-founder Dr. Nzinga Harrison) Highlights from the 2021 National Survey on Drug Use and Health from SAMSHA [PDF]About Our GuestCorbin Petro is an experienced CEO, industry leader, and entrepreneur with a mission-driven, analytic approach to innovation. She is the CEO and co-founder of Eleanor Health, providing evidence-based, whole person care specializing in addressing the unique complexities of individuals and populations with substance use disorders and mental health needs. Eleanor Health leverages proprietary technology and data-driven insights, compassionate teams, and value-based payment to deliver superior clinical and financial outcomes. Prior to Eleanor Health, Corbin was the founding CEO of Benevera Health, a payer-provider JV and population health company. Corbin has an extensive background in healthcare including working on state Medicaid, advising a US Senator and in management consulting. She was honored as one of fifteen healthcare executives under 40 named a 2018 Up and Comer by Modern Healthcare. She received a BA from Yale University and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Connect With UsFor more information on The Other 80 please visit our website - www.theother80.com. To connect with our team, please email claudia@theother80.com and follow us on twitter @claudiawilliams and LinkedIn.
6/28/202340 minutes, 52 seconds
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Reflecting on Year One of CalAIM with Jacey Cooper

Jacey Cooper, California’s Medicaid Director,&nbsp; gives us an on-the-ground look at California’s pathbreaking CalAIM initiative that pairs intensive care management with access to a broad range of social services. It’s been a year since the program launched and Jacey reflects on how much communication, coordination, planning and agility was needed to implement a program of this size and breadth. Claudia and Jacey talk about opportunities and challenges as plans and providers navigate new benefits and participate in local housing, food, and community development conversations.&nbsp;We discuss:&nbsp;Lessons learned from the first year of CalAIM including the need for more standardization of social care benefits across health plans&nbsp;More details about the first-of-its-kind Justice Initiative which provides pre-release Medicaid services to people in jail and prisonBehavioral health redesign, payment reform, transitions of care, and administrative integration of mental health and substance use disorder servicesJacey says whole person care is truly a community effort:"As a collective force, we're making sure that plans are adapted to work with community-based organizations that have been championing these efforts for years. This is why we're focusing on embedding ourselves in the different aspects of care continuums - like housing and homelessness - within our local groups. We have to be present to have a voice in the decision-making, planning, and connection of individuals to vital services. It's not just about navigating people to housing, but ensuring they're connected to voucher programs too."#healthcare #investments #housing #medicaid #health #socialdeterminantsofhealth #managedcare&nbsp;Relevant LinksCalAIM Primer [PDF]Final Evaluation of California’s Whole Person Care Pilots [PDF]Fact Sheet on CalAIM Justice-Involved Initiative [PDF]Fact Sheet on CalAIM Population Health Management [PDF]Fact Sheets on CalAIM Community Supports <a...
6/14/202337 minutes, 18 seconds
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The Healthcare Leadership Crisis with Dr. Sachin Jain

Sachin Jain is setting out to build a very different kind of company—a nationally scaled nonprofit health plan, grounded in Scan’s founding story of 1970s community activists seeking a new future of health for vulnerable communities. In the last two years the 4.5 star Medicare plan has announced a merger with Care Oregon, launched verticals focused on delivering health services to people experiencing homelessness and LGBTQ elders, and expanded to new markets.&nbsp;We discuss:&nbsp;What’s possible with a longer time horizonHow equity and social drivers are becoming the new hustleWhy healthcare should borrow less from other industriesHow “no margin, no mission” is creating ethical laxityUnfinished business from our time together at ONCSachin calls for a new era of accountable leadership:“We need more ethical leadership in health care. And what I mean by that is we need to make sure that the words on the wall of every healthcare organization, the ethical compass, the values, the mission statements, the vision statements, actually mean something, and that the behaviors of leaders actually align to things. I think we've gotten lost in this glib “no margin, no mission” chatter, that creates this ethical laxity in organizations to begin doing things like aggressively billing their patients, or, you know, going so far as to repossess their assets when they can't pay their bills.”Relevant LinksDr Sachin Jain on Combining SCAN Group and CareOregon: “We’re Trying to Build a Very Different Kind of Company”L.A.'s state of emergency on homelessness: How a street medicine team is treating patients in a unique waySCAN launches new Medicare Advantage plan for LGBTQ+ seniorsHow One Health Plan Reduced Disparities in Medication AdherenceAbout Our GuestDr. Sachin Jain has worked in clinical medicine, academia, government, big pharma, and the health insurance industry. His passion is in accelerating the pace of change in health care and building a sustainable health care system that addresses the needs of patients. Dr. Jain President and CEO of SCAN Group and Health Plan, a $3.4B non-profit entity that serves over 220,000 patients.&nbsp; He also serves as a physician at the US Department of Veterans Affairs.&nbsp; Dr. Jain was previously president and chief executive officer of the CareMore and Aspire Health, the care delivery divisions of Anthem. He is an Adjunct Professor of Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine and Co-Editor-in-Chief, Healthcare: the Journal of Delivery Science and Innovation and trained in internal medicine at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital. He received his undergraduate (AB), medical (MD), and business degrees (MBA) from Harvard. He has worked in leadership roles at Merck and Company and the US Department of Health and Human Services and has held faculty appointments at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Business School.&nbsp;Follow Sachin Jain on Twitter @sacjai.&nbsp;Connect With Us<p...
5/31/202340 minutes, 34 seconds
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The State of Mental Health with Dr. Tom Insel

Former NIMH director and renowned neuroscientist Dr. Tom Insel joins Claudia to talk about the state of mental health in America today. The conversation dives into the challenges and opportunities for improvement, the potential of technology, and what it will take to scale integrated treatment approaches across the nation. Get a behind-the-scenes look at the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act and learn about Tom's new company, Vanna Health, which is delivering new care and payment models for people with serious mental illness.We discuss:&nbsp;Why he thinks the criminalization of mental illness is a fixable problemThat people, place and purpose are the foundation of recoveryThe big engagement issue in mental health treatmentWhy Medicaid patients don’t have access to psych hospitalsThat effective crisis response is more than a new phone numberTom talks about how mental health is the biggest health disparity in the US today:&nbsp;“Someone with a serious mental illness in the United States today is probably going to die 20 to 23 years before someone without… [that’s] the greatest health disparity that we have in the United States [and] far exceeds health disparities due to race or ethnicity. But beyond that, other forms of mortality like suicide and drug overdoses, what we call the deaths of despair, have become a massive public health issue… Suicide rates are up about 30 to 35% from the turn of the century, the mortality from drug overdoses is up about five to six fold from that time. So these are huge increases… That's a crisis we need to start talking about.”Relevant LinksTom’s book “Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health”More about Vanna Health Mental health provisions in the Bipartisan Safer Communities ActExplanation of Medicaid IMD (institutions for mental diseases) Exclusion [PDF]About Our GuestTom lnsel, M.D., a psychiatrist and neuroscientist, has been a national leader in mental health research, policy, and technology. From 2002-2015, Dr. Insel served as Director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). More recently (2015 – 2017), he led the Mental Health Team at Verily (formerly Google Life Sciences) in South San Francisco, CA. In 2017, he co-founded Mindstrong Health, a Silicon Valley start-up building tools for people with serious mental illness. Dr. Insel co-founded Vanna Health in 2022 and currently serves as Executive Chair. Vanna Health is focused on the needs of people with serious mental illness and works with community partners to provide the 3 Ps (people, place, and purpose) for recovery. In 2020, he co-founded Humanest Care, a therapeutic online community for recovery. Since May of 2019, Dr. Insel has been a special advisor to California Governor Gavin Newsom and Chair of the Board of the Steinberg Institute in Sacramento, California. He is the author of the book Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health, published by Penguin Random House. With journalist co-founders, he recently launched MindSite News, a non-profit digital publication focused on mental health issues. Dr. Insel is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and has...
5/17/202338 minutes, 48 seconds
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Medicaid as an Equity Engine with Dr. Aditi Mallick

Two things push Medicaid to the front of every equity conversation. First, its scale and focus. Second, its bold moves to improve equity through coverage expansions and addressing social drivers of health. Claudia chats with Dr. Aditi Mallick about Medicaid’s three-part agenda to improve equity, implement whole person care and expand coverage. Dr. Mallick — the Chief Medical Officer for Medicaid &amp; CHIP at CMS — shares the deeply personal experience that fuels her push for health equity and access to care for all Americans.&nbsp;We discuss:&nbsp;Why addressing social needs is key to achieving Medicaid’s agendaThinking in new ways about maternal and infant healthTwo perennial challenges: workforce and data sharing&nbsp;Where to draw the line on what Medicaid should fundAditi reminds us that pure technology plays will never work in this space:“I think there is a tremendous role for technology here and tech enablement here when done thoughtfully. I think a pure technology business in this space that doesn't have humans or service layered on top of it will not work, frankly, because so much of the implementation success around health related social needs will be predicated on being able to bring together people from a community setting and trusted voices… as opposed to building and throwing something at the community.”Relevant LinksCMS guidance on covering in Lieu of Services through Medicaid managed care [PDF]CMS framework for covering health-related social needs through Section 1115 demonstrations [PDF]CMS “unwinding” websiteMACStats: Medicaid and CHIP data book [PDF]About Our GuestDr. Aditi Mallick is a physician, strategic policy advisor, and former management consultant, who is driven to serve and create a more inclusive, innovative, and responsible healthcare system. She is the Chief Medical Officer for Medicaid and the Child Health Insurance Program at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Before joining CMS, she was Director of the COVID-19 Response Command Center at the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. A board-certified internist, Dr. Mallick has previously held clinical faculty positions at George Washington University and Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Mallick earned her BA with honors from Harvard College, including a Certificate in Healthcare Policy; her Medical Degree from Stanford University with a concentration in Health Services Research and Policy; and completed Internal Medicine Residency training at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.Connect With UsFor more information on The Other 80 please visit our website - www.theother80.com. To connect with our team, please email claudia@theother80.com and follow us on Twitter @claudiawilliams and <a...
5/3/202335 minutes, 29 seconds
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Building Trust with Abner Mason

Abner Mason has spent decades working to reduce barriers to care faced by underserved people, who often experience harm and misunderstanding in their health encounters.&nbsp; He joins us to talk about how to build trust in healthcare. It means slowing down to really understand and meet each person’s unique needs. That’s the work Abner leads as Founder and CEO of SameSky Health.&nbsp;We discuss:&nbsp;That our work is not to judge other people’s choices, it’s to expand the opportunity set they see in front of themselvesHow health plans are learning to have patienceAdvice for entrepreneurs: don’t be too enamored of your own ideasUsing our voices to oppose hateWhat’s at stake with Medicaid redeterminationsAbner reminds us that people are not quality measures:“We focus on understanding people's priorities first, which helps us develop and maintain their trust. One of the things we've learned is that people are not quality measures; we need to prioritize them first. By figuring out what's important in their lives, we can truly make them feel heard and understood.”Relevant LinksSameSky Health websiteNCQA stratification of quality measures by race and ethnicity FCC declaratory on texting for Medicaid redeterminations [PDF]Results of vaccine outreach and equity campaign [PowerPoint] Effective Strategies for Collecting Health-Equity-Related Member Data to Identify and Address Health Disparities [Webinar]About Our GuestAbner Mason has spent decades working to reduce barriers to care faced by underserved people nationally and internationally, from the federal to the local level. He is founder and CEO of SameSky Health, a cultural experience company that forms meaningful relationships to bring people to health. He has served on President Bush’s Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS, as Chief Policy Advisor to the Governor of Massachusetts, and as part of the Biden-Harris Campaign Policy Committee. He currently sits on the Boards of Manifest MedEx and the California Black Health Network, is a member of United States of Care’s Founders Council, and the American Medical Association’s External Equity and Innovation Advisory Group. He is also the founder of Health Tech 4 Medicaid.Connect With UsFor more information on The Other 80 please visit our website - www.theother80.com. To connect with our team, please email claudia@theother80.com and follow us on twitter @claudiawilliams and LinkedIn.
4/19/202343 minutes, 23 seconds
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Medicaid Investment and Innovation with Andy Slavitt

Many investors and founders shy away from building Medicaid-focused companies. Andy Slavitt – policymaker, investor and ‘In the Bubble’ host – joins us to discuss why this is a huge mistake. Medicaid now covers 85 million Americans and is where the opportunities to build meaningful and high impact companies are the greatest. We talk about Andy’s work at Town Hall Ventures and his takeaways from leading CMS in the Obama administration and COVID strategy in the early days of the Biden administration.We dive into:&nbsp;Why Medicaid-focused founders should think of states as 50 potential customers, not as governmentsA few of his portfolio companies: Eleanor Health, Cityblock Health, Plume and Spark PediatricsHow states can get better results from Medicaid managed careThe wide range of impacts from Medicaid expansion: lower medical debt and bankruptcy, increase in home ownership, and improvements in maternal, child health, cancer and cardiac outcomesAndy talks about the deep impact on people’s lives from having Medicaid coverage:“In every single study, all of those outcomes – every single one of them that are quality of life and health related – are better under Medicaid expansion. And it makes sense. If you put a little bit more money in people's pockets, put a little more security underneath them, they're going to live their lives, they are going to take that risk and take a better job, they are going to not worry as much … the kids are going to be healthier and more stable.”Relevant LinksTown Hall Ventures websiteHealth Affairs post showing far higher investments in Medicare- than Medicaid-focused companies&nbsp;Medicaid facts and figuresASPE study estimating that 15 million people will lose Medicaid coverage with the end of continuous enrollment&nbsp;&nbsp;RWJF study showing that almost two thirds of Medicaid enrollees don’t know about upcoming redeterminationsAbout Our GuestAndy Slavitt has led many of the nation’s most important health care initiatives, serving as President Biden’s White House Senior Advisor for the COVID response, President Obama’s head of Medicare and Medicaid and overseeing the turnaround, implementation and defense of the Affordable Care Act. Slavitt is the “outsider’s insider,” serving in leading private and non-profit roles in addition to his government services. He is founder and Board Chair Emeritus of United States of Care, a national non-profit health advocacy organization as well as a founding partner of Town Hall Ventures, a healthcare firm that invests in underrepresented communities. He co-chaired a national initiative on the future of health care at the Bipartisan Policy Center. He chronicles what goes on inside the government and across the nation at town halls, in USA Today, on his award-winning podcast In the Bubble, and on twitter. He is the author of Preventable, a best-selling account of the U.S.’s coronavirus response, released in 2021. A...
4/5/202339 minutes, 16 seconds
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Pioneering Whole Person Health in California with Dr. Brad Gilbert

Investing in housing for Medicaid enrollees is one of the ways Dr. Bradley Gilbert has pioneered Whole Person Health in California. He’s an original population health thinker, from his start as a county public health officer to decades of service as CEO of one of the nation’s largest Medicaid managed care plans and his most recent role as Director of Health Care Services in California. Dr. Gilbert chats with Claudia about lessons learned along the way and why we need to focus on what’s good for people, not just saving money.&nbsp;Relevant LinksEvaluation of IEHPs housing investmentOverview of CalAIMRecent CMS guidance for states offering social supports through Medicaid managed careAbout Our GuestDr. Bradley Gilbert, MD, MPP was Director of California’s Department of Health Care Services in 2020 and helped lead the state through its first response to the COVID-19 pandemic and initial implementation of CalAIM. Before that Dr. Gilbert headed the Inland Empire Health Plan, one of the largest Medicaid Managed Care plans in the nation. IEHP serves more than a million Members in Riverside and San Bernardino Counties in California. Previously Dr. Gilbert was the Public Health Officer for San Mateo and Riverside Counties. While he was CEO at IEHP Brad was board chair of the organization Claudia led, Manifest MedExConnect With UsFor more information on The Other 80 please visit our website - www.theother80.com. To connect with our team, please email claudia@theother80.com and follow us on twitter @claudiawilliams or on LinkedIn.
3/22/202331 minutes, 45 seconds
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Health Ecosystems with Dr. Mini Kahlon

A move to whole person health in America is going to take a shift of the entire health ecosystem. In this episode, Claudia chats with Dr. Mini Kahlon, the founding Vice Dean of Health Ecosystem at Dell Medical School, about health beyond the clinic, the role of “traditional medical care” and medical schools in moving towards whole person health, and why we need big, visionary goals for the health of people and communities. Relevant LinksDell Medicine “health beyond the clinic” website Results of loneliness study conducted by Factor HealthFor more on health impact of loneliness, see this reportAbout Our GuestDr. Maninder “Mini” Kahlon is a founding vice dean of Dell Medical School, where she develops innovations that advance health beyond the clinic. Kahlon is an associate professor in the Department of Population Health and the founder of Factor Health. The Factor Health laboratory develops programs that rapidly improve health in people’s lives, testing them through community-based trials. Kahlon was previously the executive director and chief information officer at the University of California San Francisco’s Clinical &amp; Translational Science Institute. She is an award-winning technology leader with experience in industry and academic medicine, building consumer-facing and research-enabling tools. Kahlon is a behavioral and systems neuroscientist. She received her Ph.D. from UCSF and is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania.Connect With UsFor more information on The Other 80 please visit our website - www.theother80.com. To connect with our team, please email claudia@theother80.com and follow us on twitter @claudiawilliams or on LinkedIn.
3/8/202334 minutes, 32 seconds
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Buying Health for North Carolina with Dr. Mandy Cohen

Why is whole-person care so important? And, is it even possible to shift our current model in that direction? Former North Carolina Secretary of Health Dr. Mandy Cohen joins us to talk about why a shift to whole-person care is the right approach and how she generated bi-partisan support for North Carolina’s groundbreaking Healthy Opportunities Pilots which are providing food, housing and other services to Medicaid enrollees. She shares leadership lessons from COVID and perspectives on the data infrastructure states will need to support whole person health.&nbsp;Relevant LinksHealth Affairs article: “Buying Health for North Carolinians”https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2019.01583Federal approval of Healthy Opportunities Pilotshttps://www.medicaid.gov/medicaid/section-1115-demonstrations/downloads/nc-medicaid-reform-demo-cms-approval-attachment-g-healthy-opport-pilots-eligib-services.pdfKaiser issue brief on North Carolina Pilotshttps://www.kff.org/report-section/a-first-look-at-north-carolinas-section-1115-medicaid-waivers-healthy-opportunities-pilots-issue-brief/About Our GuestDr. Mandy Cohen served as the Secretary of Health in North Carolina from 2017 to 2022, where she led the State’s COVID response and the transformation of the Medicaid Program - focusing on whole-person care and the social drivers of health. Dr. Cohen also served as the COO and Chief of Staff at CMS, helping implement the Affordable Care Act. She was recently named the EVP of Aledade Inc and the CEO of Aldade Care Solutions - scaling value-based care with doctors in charge. Dr. Cohen received her MD from Yale University School of Medicine and her Masters in Public Health from Harvard Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Cohen has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine and is an adjunct professor at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. She trained in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital.&nbsp;Connect With UsFor more information on The Other 80 please visit our website - www.theother80.com. To connect with our team, please email claudia@theother80.com and follow Claudia on twitter @claudiawilliams and LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/claudiawilliamshealthdata/
2/22/202340 minutes, 49 seconds
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Introducing “The Other 80” with Claudia Williams

Welcome to The Other 80 with former senior White House advisor and entrepreneur Claudia Williams. Claudia is opening a new conversation about the move to whole person health in America.&nbsp;Stay tuned for more. About our showThe Other 80 brings you real, honest dialogue about the things that help keep people healthy beyond traditional medical care – like housing, social connections and food – and the cutting edge policies and programs supporting whole person health. Join former White House advisor, entrepreneur and host Claudia Williams for deep conversations with the innovators, implementers and policymakers bringing these new models to life. We’ll talk about what’s working, what’s not and how to move towards whole person health rapidly and equitably across the US.&nbsp;About our hostClaudia Williams is a healthcare executive and entrepreneur who is passionate about creating the conditions, policies, systems and learning to enable health for all. Claudia was the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Manifest MedEx – one of the nation’s largest health data sharing initiatives. She served as Senior Advisor for Health Innovation and Technology at the White House under President Obama, building policies and programs for care transformation, data sharing, and precision health. Claudia is a graduate of Harvard’s Chan School of Public Health, where she earned her MS degree in Health Policy and Management. Claudia served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Botswana.Connect with usTo connect with our team, please email claudia@theother80.com.
2/8/20232 minutes, 2 seconds