{"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":"EP513: Revisiting Cunning Anticompetitive Hospital Contracts, With Brennan Bilberry","slug":"ep513-revisiting-cunning-anticompetitive-hospital-contracts-with-brennan-bilberry","published_at":"2026-05-27T21:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/relentless-health-value-872220/ep513-revisiting-cunning-anticompetitive-hospital-contracts-with-brennan-bilberry","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/relentless-health-value-872220","url":"https://cc-lnk.com/EP513","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/healthvalue/RHV_EP513_Brennan_Bilberry.mp3?dest-id=197686","summary":"Stacey Richter introduces Episode 513 of Relentless Health Value as a primer on anti-competitive hospital contracting with Brennan Bilberry of Fairmark Partners, setting up next week's interview with Matt Cantor, lead litigator in the Sutter Health antitrust class action that led to a $575 million settlement over alleged price inflation using market power. Bilberry explains how hospital consolidation enables higher commercial rates and outlines a four-part contracting playbook: all-or-nothing contracting requiring inclusion of all system facilities at high prices; anti-steering and anti-tiering clauses blocking lower-cost benefit designs; price gag clauses limiting disclosure of negotiated rates despite transparency rules; and pressure on ostensibly independent providers to sell or align pricing with the dominant system. The episode links these patterns to DOJ actions against OhioHealth and New York Presbyterian and emphasizes collective action, regulation, and litigation to address them. === LINKS === 🔗 Show Notes with all mentioned links: https://cc-lnk.com/EP513 ✉️ 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=1 🎤 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 htt…","meta_description":"Stacey Richter introduces Episode 513 of Relentless Health Value as a primer on anti-competitive hospital contracting with Brennan Bilberry of Fairmark Pa…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2182,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/relentless-health-value-872220/episodes/ep513-revisiting-cunning-anticompetitive-hospital-contracts-with-brennan-bilberry/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/ep513-revisiting-cunning-anticompetitive-hospital-contracts-with-brennan-bilberry.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}