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Turning out-of-network pricing into a software problem: Daffodil Health company presentation and Q&A with co-founder & CEO Navin Nagiah

Turning out-of-network pricing into a software problem: Daffodil Health company presentation and Q&A with co-founder & CEO Navin Nagiah

Navin Nagiah, Co-Founder & CEO at Daffodil Health, sat down with HTN's Martin Cech on August 27, 2026 to discuss Daffodil's software-first, per-claim alternative to legacy percent-of-savings out-of-network vendors, the exploding volume of NSA IDR disputes and the incentives driving it, and where TPA and regional health plan innovation is headed next.

Aug 27, 2026

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Growing MA members 50% while the nationals retreat: Clever Care Health Plan company presentation with CEO Karen Walker Johnson

Growing MA members 50% while the nationals retreat: Clever Care Health Plan company presentation with CEO Karen Walker Johnson

Karen Walker Johnson, CEO at Clever Care Health Plan, sat down with HTN's Martin Cech on August 26, 2026 to discuss building a culturally attuned Medicare Advantage plan, driving MLR down from over 100% to the mid-80s, and taking a cautious, augment-not-replace approach to AI.

Aug 27, 2026

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Bridging enterprise and consumer in women's health: Wildflower Health company presentation with Leah Sparks, CEO & Founder

Bridging enterprise and consumer in women's health: Wildflower Health company presentation with Leah Sparks, CEO & Founder

Leah Sparks, CEO & Founder at Wildflower Health, sat down with HTN's Kevin O'Leary on August 25, 2026 to discuss the Every Mother acquisition and Wildflower's entry into direct-to-consumer pelvic health, the unbundling of maternity's global fee and its looming cost impact, and why value-based care contracts alone don't lower costs without care model transformation.

Aug 26, 2026

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Can convening replace regulation in health IT? An expert interview with Ryan Howells, Leavitt Partners

Can convening replace regulation in health IT? An expert interview with Ryan Howells, Leavitt Partners

Ryan Howells, Principal at Leavitt Partners, sat down with HTN's Martin Cech on August 21, 2026 to discuss the one-year anniversary of CMS's Health Tech Ecosystem initiative, why convening and voluntary pledges are outperforming traditional rulemaking, the new pledge categories like e-prior authorization and clinical trial matching, and what it will take to finally unlock patient data from the EHRs.

Aug 24, 2026

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AmeriHealth Caritas invests in Deon Health: a conversation with Deon Health's CEO Sara Ratner

AmeriHealth Caritas invests in Deon Health: a conversation with Deon Health's CEO Sara Ratner

Sara Ratner, CEO at Deon Health, sat down with HTN's Kevin O'Leary on August 21, 2026 to discuss the joint venture model behind Deon's IDD care, the AmeriHealth Caritas investment, and the case for bringing managed care to a population the system has historically struggled to serve.

Aug 24, 2026

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Fireside chat with Cityblock Health CEO & co-founder Toyin Ajayi, M.D. on the $116m Series E and the Homeward acquisition

Fireside chat with Cityblock Health CEO & co-founder Toyin Ajayi, M.D. on the $116m Series E and the Homeward acquisition

Toyin Ajayi, MD, Co-Founder and CEO at Cityblock Health, sat down with HTN's Kevin O'Leary on August 20, 2026 to discuss the $116 million Series E and Homeward Health acquisition, the shifting Medicaid and Medicare Advantage funding landscape, and how Cityblock is using AI to scale care for its highest-need members.

Aug 20, 2026

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HTN’s Q2 Earnings Season Debrief

HTN’s Q2 Earnings Season Debrief

Sean Leimbach sat down with Martin Cech and Kevin O'Leary on August 20, 2026 to discuss Q2 2026 earnings season, covering AI's real ROI versus the hype, the Medicare Advantage rebound, and the employer health market's momentum.

Aug 20, 2026

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Cancer care commercial reimbursement data and its uses: an expert interview with Alli Oakes, Trilliant Health

Cancer care commercial reimbursement data and its uses: an expert interview with Alli Oakes, Trilliant Health

Alli Oakes, Chief Research Officer at Trilliant Health, sat down with HTN's Martin Cech on August 19, 2026 to discuss the wide variation in cancer-care price growth across US markets, why national inflation benchmarks like CPI and PPI fail to capture local pricing trends, and how employers and TPAs can use price transparency data to design smarter benefits and network strategies.

Aug 19, 2026

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Building a durable metabolic care business in the GLP-1 era: Virta Health company presentation and Q&A with Amit Shah

Building a durable metabolic care business in the GLP-1 era: Virta Health company presentation and Q&A with Amit Shah

Amit Shah, President at Virta Health, sat down with HTN's Kevin O'Leary on August 18, 2026 to discuss Virta's decade of peer-reviewed outcomes data, its role as a complement to (and sustainable off-ramp from) GLP-1s, and its go-to-market strategy across self-insured employers, health plans, and expanding access to Medicare, Medicaid, and underserved populations.

Aug 19, 2026

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