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  1. Can Smarter Payment Design Turn Mental Health Care into Standard Care?

    HealthSpark, Episode 13: Sandhya Rao, Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts and a practicing primary care physician, explores how innovative care models, thoughtful benefit design, and real-world implementation challenges intersect in the effort to expand access to high-quality and affordable mental health care.

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  3. What if Your Country's Strongest Economic Engine is Health Care Itself?

    HealthSpark, Episode 11: Dr. Rifat Atun, Professor of Global Health Systems and Director of the Health System Innovation Lab at Harvard University, examines how rapid population aging, outdated regulations, and workforce constraints are requiring countries to reimagine health as less of a budgetary burden and more as a foundation for economic growth.

    Rifat Atun HealthSpark

  5. Can We Pay for Health Care in Ways That Clinicians and Patients Believe in?

    HealthSpark, Episode 9: Andrew Dreyfus, former President and Chief Executive Officer of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, draws on decades of work at the center of U.S. health care reform to examine how public payers and new data capabilities can align health care towards models that support better decisions, safer care, and more sustainable costs.

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  6. Can Outcomes-Based Care Work in Real-World Payment Models?

    HealthSpark, Episode 8: Sandhya Rao, Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts and a practicing primary care physician, She examines the shift from fee-for-service to outcomes-based payment by analyzing how contracts, metrics, and compensation must evolve to influence day-to-day clinical practice.

    Sandhya Rao Health Spark

  7. Can Health Care Stay Competitive When Hospitals Keep Merging?

    HealthSpark, Episode 7: Leemore Dafny, an applied microeconomist and former Deputy Director for Health Care and Antitrust at the Federal Trade Commission, examines how consolidation among hospitals and health care organizations affects competition, pricing, and wages. She considers what policy tools are available when traditional market forces are no longer sufficient to keep costs in check.

    Leemore Dafny

  8. Can Health Care be Both Equitable and Profitable?

    HealthSpark, Episode 6: Tisha Boatman, Executive Vice President of External Affairs at Siemens Healthineers, leads global efforts in government affairs, partnerships, reimbursement, and health access initiatives at one of the world's largest medtech companies. She explores how long-term, scalable health care models that consider social determinants can deliver quality care while creating sustainable business opportunities in underserved areas.

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  9. If Primary Care is the Health System’s Front Door, Why is it Last in Line for Investment?

    HealthSpark, Episode 5: Zirui Song, Associate Professor of Health Care Policy and Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a primary care physician at Massachusetts General Hospital, examines how payment structures, public policy, and market forces converge to impact what patients can access and how clinicians practice.

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  10. What Will it Take for Health Systems to Support Real-Time, Data-Driven Patient Care?

    HealthSpark, Episode 4: Elliott Antman, Cardiologist and Senior Physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, explores how rapidly changing cardiovascular physiology generates vast streams of monitoring data, and what it will take for health systems to translate that information into timely guidance for real-time clinical decision-making.

    Elliot Antman HealthSpark