{"podcast":{"title":"Relentless Health Value","slug":"relentless-health-value-872220","podcast_index_feed_id":872220,"rss_url":"https://healthvalue.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"https://relentlesshealthvalue.com","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/6/6/4/4/66448feffdf62b8940be95ea3302a6a1/22-RHV-0008_1400_pixel_web_art.jpg","author":"Stacey Richter","episode_count":645,"summary":"American Healthcare Entrepreneurs and Execs you might want to know. Talking. Relentless Health Value is a weekly interview podcast hosted by Stacey Richter, a healthcare entrepreneur celebrating fifteen years in the business side of healthcare. This show is for leaders in pharma, devices, payers, providers, patient advocacy and healthcare business. It's for health industry innovators, entrepreneurs or wantrepreneurs or intrapreneurs. Relentless Healthcare Value is the show for you if you want to connect with others trying to manage the triple play: to provide healthcare value while being personally and professionally fulfilled.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/relentless-health-value-872220"},"episode":{"title":"EP505: The Death of the \"What Is Value\" Guessing Game for Clinical and Plan Decision-Makers Ready to Move On, With Ahilan Sivaganesan, MD","slug":"ep505-the-death-of-the-what-is-value-guessing-game-for-clinical-and-plan-decision-makers-ready-to-move-on-with-ahilan-sivaganesan-md","published_at":"2026-04-02T09:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/relentless-health-value-872220/ep505-the-death-of-the-what-is-value-guessing-game-for-clinical-and-plan-decision-makers-ready-to-move-on-with-ahilan-sivaganesan-md","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/relentless-health-value-872220","url":"https://cc-lnk.com/EP505","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/healthvalue/RHV_EP505_Ahilan_Sivaganesan1.mp3?dest-id=197686","summary":"Stacey Richter interviews neurosurgeon Dr. Ahilan Sivaganesan (Dr. Siva) about replacing vague healthcare \"value\" claims with quantified outcomes and unit-level costs, introducing his Operative Value Index (OVI). They discuss how hospitals often lack true internal episode costs and how common quality metrics miss patient-reported outcomes and appropriateness across the full care journey. Using time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC) and condition- or procedure-specific patient-reported outcomes, OVI creates a common mathematical language to compare surgeons, practices, or health systems, risk-adjust for confounders, and support steering/tiering and direct contracting for self-funded employers. Siva describes transparency via bubble charts that spur clinician behavior change without new incentives and argues this infrastructure is essential as bundled payments and risk-based arrangements expand, framing a \"Yahoo vs Google\" shift from fee-for-service volume to measurable value. === LINKS === 🔗 Show Notes with all mentioned links: https://cc-lnk.com/EP505 ✉️ Enjoy this podcast? Subscribe to the free weekly newsletter: https://relentlesshealthvalue.com/join-the-relentless-tribe 🫙 Support the podcast with a small donation to the Tip Jar: https://relentlesshealthvalue.com/join-the-relentless-tribe 🎤 Listen on Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/feed/id892082003?ls= 🎤 Listen on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6UjgzI7bScDrWvZEk2f46b 📺 Subscribe to our YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@RelentlessHealthValue === CONNECT WITH THE RHV TEAM === ✭ LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/relentless-health-value/ ✭ Threads https://www.threads.net/@relentlesshealthvalue/ ✭ Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/relentleshealth.bsky.social ✭ X https://twitte…","meta_description":"Stacey Richter interviews neurosurgeon Dr. Ahilan Sivaganesan (Dr. Siva) about replacing vague healthcare \"value\" claims with quantified outcomes and unit…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2618,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/relentless-health-value-872220/episodes/ep505-the-death-of-the-what-is-value-guessing-game-for-clinical-and-plan-decision-makers-ready-to-move-on-with-ahilan-sivaganesan-md/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/relentless-health-value-872220/ep505-the-death-of-the-what-is-value-guessing-game-for-clinical-and-plan-decision-makers-ready-to-move-on-with-ahilan-sivaganesan-md.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}