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The Astonishing Healthcare Podcast

If you’ve ever wondered what pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) do, why the pharmaceutical supply chain is so complicated or the pace of change in healthcare seems so slow, how vendor purchasing decisions are made, or why our nation’s electronic claim administration infrastructure must be updated, Astonishing Healthcare by Judi Health (Capital Rx) is the podcast for you. Covering everything from niche and broad pharmacy and health benefit topics to regulatory change, disruptive technologies, and macro

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00:16:09

AH079 - Capital Equilibrium, a New Level-Funded...

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2025/08/22

In this episode of the Astonishing Healthcare podcast, Mike Miele, FSA, MAAA (SVP of Insured Services), joins us in the studio again for a discussion about a new product and the growth of level-funded pharmacy plans. What are level-funded plans? How does Capital Rx's "Capital Equilibrium" work? Listen in to hear how these plans, positioned between self-funded and fully insured models, offer employers budget certainty while maintaining flexibility and transparency. Mike highlights the scenarios where

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00:21:44

AH078 - More on Judi Health™ and the Unified Benefits...

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2025/08/15

In this episode of the Astonishing Healthcare podcast, Capital Rx's Dr. Sunil Bhadrani (Chief Innovation & Medical Officer) and Mike Tate (Vice President, National Business Development) discuss the questions they are fielding from channel partners and prospects interested in Judi Health™ - the first unified medical and pharmacy solution. We explore advancements in unified claims processing and how it helps address healthcare's fragmented nature by integrating pharmacy and medical benefits data with

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00:20:04

AH077 - Rx Retro: An Approach to Safe & Effective...

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2025/08/08

In this episode of the Astonishing Healthcare podcast, host Justin Venneri sits down with Lauren Carroll, PharmD, a Senior Clinical Programs Manager at Capital Rx, to discuss Rx Retro. This pharmacist-led program focuses on medication deprescribing to enhance patient safety, reduce adverse drug events, and improve healthcare outcomes. Lauren shares insights into how Rx Retro leverages Judi® - Capital Rx's enterprise health platform - to identify and address drug therapy concerns through a series of

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00:26:37

AH076 - PBM 'Boogeymen' & Stopping the Madness Out...

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2025/08/01

In this episode of the Astonishing Healthcare podcast, we discuss recent health policy news and how to bring greater transparency to health benefits programs with returning guest, Jeff Hogan, President of Upside Health Advisors. Building on our previous discussion with Jeff - How First-Movers are Taking Control of their Health Plans in 2025 - we shed more light on the “PBM boogeyman” narrative, explaining how opaque pricing structures and unhelpful provisions buried in contracts must be discovered

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00:24:10

AH075 - What Health Systems Need [From a PBM]: A...

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2025/07/25

In this episode of the Astonishing Healthcare podcast, host Justin Venneri speaks with Lindsey Butler, PharmD, Vice President & Clinical Pharmacy Consultant at Lockton, and Chris England, Vice President of National Business Development at Capital Rx. They discuss what health systems need from a pharmacy benefit management (PBM) partner, the challenges in today's market, and the opportunities for innovation and collaboration to advance care for the patients in the communities health systems serve.

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00:27:22

AH074 - How Fast is the Way Consumers Search for Care...

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2025/07/18

On this episode of the Astonishing Healthcare podcast, Carrie Liken (now with Snowflake) returns to the show to discuss the insanely rapidly evolving search landscape and Google's new AI Mode. Are websites dying as AI-powered search ascends in popularity? According to Carrie, it looks that way. She and host Justin Venneri discuss the transformative impact of AI on healthcare search and patient journeys. They explore how tools like Google’s new AI Mode and ChatGPT are reshaping how consumers find

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00:16:57

AH073 - How Low Cost Alternative Programs Can &...

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2025/07/11

The latest episode of the Astonishing Healthcare podcast dives into the functionalities and real-world impact of Rx Smart Save, a low-cost alternative program designed to reduce medication costs for both patients and plan sposnsors. Jackie Lolos, PharmD, and Haleh (Halls) Campbell, PharmD, join Justin Venneri in the studio for a discussion highlighting the innovation and care behind this clinical program.

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00:19:40

AH072 - The Benefits You Probably Didn't Know You...

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2025/07/03

On Episode 72 of the Astonishing Healthcare podcast, Marsha Perry, Capital Rx's Head of Benefits and Compensation, joins host Justin Venneri in the studio for a conversation about the intricacies of employee benefits, beyond pharmacy benefits! At a high level, she shares her thoughts on setting up a "well-rounded and affordable" benefits package, what should be in the benefits guide, and how to drive app usage and engagement in underutilized programs (a little humor and sharing personal stories

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00:36:07

AH071 - A Look at What's Really Driving Drug Spend,...

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2025/06/27

This episode of the Astonishing Healthcare podcast features Michael Kleinrock, Director, Research Development at the IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science. We explore key highlights from their most recent annual report - Understanding the Use of Medicines in the U.S. 2025 - with an eye toward implications for plan sponsors and the health benefits market. What are the key drivers of higher drug spend beyond GLP-1s? At what cost do consumers abandon prescriptions at the counter? How is biosimilar

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00:23:31

Best of '25! AH058 - Building Judi®, the Healthcare...

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2025/06/20

This "Best of '25!" episode of the Astonishing Healthcare podcast highlights Episode 58, which featured Liya Lomsadze (Director, Product Management) at Capital Rx. Liya highlights her journey from data analytics on the provider side to leading the product development of Capital Rx's Unified Claims Processing™ product, Judi Health™. We'll be back with a fresh new episode next week, but given the acquisition of Amino Health and launch of Judi Care, a unified "front end" pharmacy and medical care

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00:29:46

AH070 - Inside Capital Rx's Acquisition of Amino...

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2025/06/13

In this special episode of the Astonishing Healthcare podcast, Capital Rx Co-Founder and CEO, AJ Loiacono, and John Asalone, Executive Vice President of the newly formed Judi Care (former CEO of Amino Health), join Justin Venneri in the studio for a discussion about Capital Rx's acquisition of Amino, a unique care navigation company. The conversation covers everything from the background on how AJ and John met to "What is care navigation?" and how Judi Care offers 1) health plan members (i.e.,

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00:19:48

AH069 - Poster Presentations: The Utility of ICD...

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2025/06/06

This episode of the Astonishing Healthcare podcast highlights two recent posters presented by Zachary Brunko, PharmD (PGY1 Managed Care Pharmacy Resident), and Nash Albadarin, PharmD, MBA (Associate Director, Clinical Programs Business Development), at AMCP 2025 and the 2025 PQA Annual Meeting, respectively.

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00:27:05

AH068 - The Future of Health Benefits: Integrating...

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2025/05/30

This episode of the Astonishing Healthcare podcast is all about Pharmacogenomics (PGx), a critical component of precision medicine that ensures the medications prescribed to patients align with their genetic makeup.. To explain everything from what PGx is and barriers to broader adoption to the future state of integrated care, Burns Blaxall, PhD (Senior Vice President of Precision Medicine at Aranscia), and Caitlin Munro, PharmD (Sr. Clinical Programs Manager at Capital Rx), joined Justin Venneri in

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00:18:02

AH067 - Aligned Health Benefits and the Freedom to...

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2025/05/23

In this episode of the Astonishing Healthcare podcast, Justin Venneri speaks with Kristin Begley, PharmD, Chief Commercial Officer at Capital Rx, about the evolving role of Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) and the rapidly accelerating shift in demand for an "unbundled," agnostic model. But what does unbundling mean? How does this approach help to avoid conflicts of interest? What parts of a pharmacy program can be carved out or unbundled to allow plan sponsors the freedom to design a plan that meets

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00:25:43

AH066 - The Evolving Health Benefits Market: Everyone...

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2025/05/16

In this episode of the Astonishing Healthcare podcast, Mike Tate, one of the newest members of Capital Rx's commercial team, joins Justin Venneri in the studio to discuss the latest challenges and innovations in the healthcare market, and how he's approaching growth opportunities "west of the Mississippi." Mike explains why his region has been quite slow to adopt self-funding strategies compared to the rest of the country (despite the great work of innovative brokers and consultants), how plan

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00:19:41

AH065 - The Bridge to Value-Based Care: Unified...

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2025/05/09

This episode of the Astonishing Healthcare podcast with Dr. Sunil Budhrani (Chief Innovation & Medical Officer) highlights the transformative potential of Judi Health™, the first Unified Claims Processing™ platform offering a combined medical and pharmacy benefit experience (with vision and dental soon to follow)! Why is unifying claim administration necessary to reach a value-based world? Well, everyone has been talking about VBC for years, and it's proved to be an elusive target. Today, Sunil

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00:24:19

AH064 - Empowering Plan Sponsors: Data Access &...

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2025/05/02

This Astonishing Healthcare podcast episode features Bridget Mulvenna, who joins us in the studio - again! - for an insightful discussion about addressing data access hurdles and utilizing pharmacy claims data. Building on her previous episodes, we dig into the "how" here - how can plan sponsors get their data, analyze it, and use it to make more informed decisions. It's encouraging that things are getting a little better out there, but data transparency and sharing remain top concerns for channel

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00:19:44

AH063 - What's New with Medicaid PBM? With Jessin...

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2025/04/25

In this episode of the Astonishing Healthcare podcast, we welcome Jessin Joseph, PharmD, MBA, back to the studio. Jessin's focus on the pharmacy benefit administration side of the business and experience at Kentucky Medicaid and working with health plan clients inform the discussion about the impact the new administration and appointments in Washington, D.C., may have on health plan partners, MPPP (M3P), various models of Pharmacy Benefit Management (PBM) for Medicaid, including the single PBM and

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00:35:22

Best of '25! AH054 - Judi Health™: Going Beyond...

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2025/04/18

This encore episode of the Astonishing Healthcare podcast highlights the transformative potential of Judi Health™, the first unified claims processing platform that integrates medical and pharmacy claim administrative workflows and data to create a seamless experience for stakeholders, including patients, providers, and employers. Judi Health garnered much attention during our second annual Partner Summit, as Unified Claims Processing™ has the potential to help reduce up to $1 trillion of

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00:19:20

AH062 - Navigating RxDC Reporting: Some Tips for...

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2025/04/11

In this episode of the Astonishing Healthcare podcast, Spencer Kramer, Director, Client Services at Capital Rx, joins us in the studio to discuss an important aspect of plan sponsors' annual reporting requirements: Prescription Drug Data Collection - aka RxDC. We review key dates and where plan fiduciaries can find important data and updates, and Spencer shares his experience working with Capital Rx's clients and some suggestions to a) yield a smooth RxDC submission process, and b) make use of the

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