Healthcare Business Growth Conversations

Every hospital, clinic, and doctor wants growth. Only a few know what really drives it.Healthcare Business Growth Conversations brings you unfiltered stories and strategies from doctors turned entrepreneurs who’ve built successful healthcare practices and medical brands.Hosted by Austin Lovvorn and Rakesh Reddy from Orange Carrot Media, this podcast bridges two worlds, U.S. and Indian healthcare, sharing practical lessons, marketing frameworks, and growth stories you can apply to your own practice.

Healthcare Business Growth Conversations is a business podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 22 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

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  Episode #23

  Why She Added Insurance to a Thriving Cash-Pay Practice - With Sharon Lemoine

  Oct 3, 202643 min

  Most healthcare practices begin with insurance and explore cash pay later. Sharon Lemoine built hers in exactly the opposite direction, and added insurance back in for a reason most owners don't admit out loud. After 25 years in emergency medicine, Sharon left corporate healthcare and built Gig Harbor Medical Spa and Concierge Medicine from the ground up. She started 100% cash pay, grew a thriving practice, and a few years in added select insurance contracts, not just for community access, but as a hedge against the risk that her cash-paying patients' spending could dry up in a downturn. In this episode of Healthcare Business Growth Conversations, Sharon explains: • What running a restaurant through COVID taught her about business • Why she left corporate emergency medicine • The advantages and limitations of a cash-pay practice • Why she really added insurance after several years in business • What changed operationally when she began accepting insurance (credentialing, software, staffing) • Why she still doesn't bill Medicare directly • How word of mouth, Google, and early marketing helped attract patients • How her concierge membership creates a third, recurring revenue layer • Why building the right team is critical for scaling without burning out Reach Sharon Lemoine: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theconciergenp_/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharon-lemoine-arnp-fnp-a2529070/ Website: https://gigharbormedicalspa.com/

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  Episode #22

  It's Not Burnout, It's Moral Injury - with Dr. Aric Coffman, CEO of P3 Health Partners

  Aug 29, 202645 min

  Most people think healthcare gets better by adding more doctors, more technology, or more hospitals. Dr. Aric Coffman thinks the real problem is the business model behind it. He spent 17 years as a surgeon before walking away from the operating room. His reason: he kept watching patients fall through the cracks of a system that, in his words, was "sicker than a lot of my patients were." Now he is CEO of P3 Health Partners, a physician-led population health company, and he is fixing a value-based-care business in public, in the middle of a real turnaround. In this conversation with host Rakesh Reddy, Coffman makes the case that physician burnout is not a personal-resilience problem. It is structural. He calls it moral injury: the slow damage of asking doctors to optimize for volume when everything that pulled them into medicine is about the patient in front of them. What you'll learn: Why he refuses to call it "burnout" and what "moral injury" actually means "No one went to medical school to be a winner at RVUs" and why volume-based feedback breaks good doctors Why resilience, work-life balance, and meditation are not the fix, and what values congruence is The questions a practice owner should actually ask a physician (past the EMR and prior-auth complaints) What value-based care means, translated for the doctor listening and not the investor The first move a small independent practice can make toward getting paid for outcomes Why roughly a quarter of visits, by his gestalt, don't need to happen, and the demand-capacity fix How a tiny share of patients drives most of the cost, and how to manage a panel around that What P3's comeback taught him, and the hardest call he had to make Where AI in primary care is real and where it is still a demo ("augmented intelligence," not artificial) Whether you own a practice, employ physicians, or are a doctor wondering whether the exhaustion is you or the system, this is the honest version of the value-based-care conversation. Connect with Dr. Aric Coffman: Company: P3 Health Partners (NYSE: PIII) Website: https://p3hp.org/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aric-coffman-md-mba-b23b32b/ Host: Rakesh Reddy Podcast: Healthcare Business Growth Conversations

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  Episode #21

  The Practice Risks Insurance Won't Cover - With Van Carlson

  Aug 22, 202655 min

  Most practice owners insure their malpractice and their building, then leave the risks most likely to actually disrupt the business completely unprotected. Reputation. Audits. Cyber. Business interruption. A key provider going down. In this conversation with host Rakesh Reddy, Van Carlson, Founder and CEO of SRA 831(b) Admin, walks through the gaps traditional insurance was never built to cover, using real cases from med spas, dental practices, and specialty clinics. One of them: a client who got sued after a patient's death, did nothing wrong, and still watched his malpractice carrier settle because, in Van's words, "malpractice is a math problem." The local coverage and the fake reviews that followed took a PR firm and 18 months just to get revenue back to normal. What you'll learn: Why your malpractice and property coverage leave your most valuable assets (reputation, cash flow, patient base) completely exposed "Malpractice is a math problem": what your carrier is actually optimizing for, and why it isn't your reputation How a Medicare or Medicaid audit disrupts a practice, and the toll it takes on the doctor personally The COVID lesson most owners still haven't acted on: business interruption you can't insure the traditional way Why cyber policies now carry the most exclusions, including "act of war" language that can void a breach claim The blind spot almost no one plans for: losing a key revenue-generating provider The 831(b) structure explained simply as "an HSA for business owners," and who it is genuinely NOT a fit for The one thing to do this week to find your biggest unprotected risk This episode is educational and not tax or legal advice. Talk to your own CPA and counsel before making any decision. Connect with Van Carlson: Website: ⁠831b.com⁠ Email: ⁠van@831b.com⁠ Host: Rakesh Reddy Podcast: Healthcare Business Growth Conversations

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  Episode #20

  She Bought a FAILING Dental Practice & Spent a Decade Rebuilding it - Meet Dr. Kaori Ema

  Jul 23, 202647 min

  Most people buy a business that's already doing well. Dr. Kaori Ema, DDS, MAGD, did the opposite. She acquired a struggling dental practice with a bad reputation, angry former patients, and paper charts, then spent nearly a decade rebuilding it into Printers Row Dental Studio and the cosmetic brand Chicago Veneers. In this episode of Healthcare Business Growth Conversations, Dr. Ema sits down with host Rakesh to break down what the acquisition really took: the hidden problems no one warned her about, the red flags every buyer should watch for, the insurance and branding decisions that finally grew the practice, and the patient-experience and leadership lessons she learned the hard way. If you're thinking about buying a practice, building a healthcare brand, or creating a patient experience that actually retains people, this one is packed with hard-won lessons. ———————————————— In this episode you’ll learn: - Why she took on a struggling practice, and what she missed going in - The single biggest red flag when acquiring a practice (reputation and goodwill) - "Trust, but verify": doing your own due diligence - Going out of network and using assignment of benefits to reduce patient friction - Why she built Chicago Veneers as a separate cosmetic brand - Managing patient anxiety and why the front desk makes or breaks experience - Leadership: building, and fixing, the right team - What keeps her going after a decade of building and rebuilding ———————————————— Connect with Dr. Ema: Website: https://www.prdentalstudio.com/ IG: https://www.instagram.com/chicagoveneers IG: https://www.instagram.com/smilesbydr.ema ———————————————— ABOUT THE SHOW: Healthcare Business Growth Conversations, hosted by Rakesh at Orange Carrot Media, features candid conversations with healthcare practice owners on growth, marketing, patient experience, and the reality of running a practice. Subscribe for new episodes.

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  Episode #19

  Why Great Doctors Fail as Leaders - Dr. Ramzia El Annan & Jack O'Connor

  Jul 9, 20261h 31m

  Why do brilliant clinicians so often struggle the moment they step into leadership? In this episode, two operators who have spent their careers solving that exact gap sit down to explore it from opposite ends of healthcare. Dr. Ramzia El Annan built her career as an entrepreneur, opening clinics and training healthcare professionals across the Middle East, Europe, the United States, and Canada. Jack O'Connor spent his career inside hospital systems, building the curriculum for a physician leadership academy that trains VP-level leaders across major hospital chains. Between them, they name the gap the healthcare system rarely admits: clinical credentials open the door, but leadership requires an entirely different skill set that no medical, nursing, or pharmacy school teaches. This is the honest conversation about what it actually costs when that transition goes wrong, and what it takes to build organizations that outlast individual expertise. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ABOUT THE GUESTS Dr. Ramzia El Annan, PharmD, RPh, CPP, CMAP Founder and CEO of Ramzderm Medico-Aesthetic Academy and Skin Center. International expert in aesthetic, regenerative, and longevity medicine with clinics and educational programs across four continents. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-ramzia-annan-pharmd-cpp-cmap-2a1a0620/ Jack O'Connor Healthcare executive with a career spanning hospital systems and physician leadership development. Built the physician leadership academy curriculum that trains VP-level leaders across major US hospital chains. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-f-oconnor/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ABOUT THE SHOW Healthcare Business Growth Conversations is hosted by Rakesh Reddy, COO of Orange Carrot Media. Every episode features honest conversations with healthcare operators, clinicians, and executives about what actually drives growth in medical practices, clinics, and healthcare organizations. Subscribe for new episodes every week: https://youtube.com/@orangecarrotmediafl Follow Orange Carrot Media: LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/company/orange-carrot-media Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/orangecarrotmedia Work with Orange Carrot Media: https://orangecarrotmedia.com

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