Working Healthcare

Meredith Hirsh

Booking Overview

A weekly interview show focused on the policies, business forces, and power structures reshaping the U.S. healthcare system, featuring candid conversations with healthcare executives, founders, and specialized industry practitioners. PR agencies could credibly pitch healthcare policy experts, payer and pharmacy-benefit specialists, pharmaceutical veterans, medical-practice operators, and healthcare technology leaders; booking difficulty is medium.

Metrics

Episodes: 118

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 5.0/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Neutral

Location: USA

YouTube: 154 subscribers

Instagram: 149 followers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

admin@thehirshcenter.com

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Host

Meredith Hirsh - Healthcare podcast host and commentator focused on the policies, power structures, and industry forces reshaping the U.S. healthcare system.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium

Typical Credentials:

Senior healthcare professionals with firsthand expertise in payer operations, pharmacy benefits, pharmaceuticals, medical-practice management, healthcare technology, reimbursement, or policy.

Required Achievements:

Founded or led a healthcare company or consultancy, Held senior roles in healthcare organizations, Advised physicians, practices, or healthcare stakeholders on complex operational or policy issues, Developed specialized expertise through substantial healthcare industry experience

Recent Guest Discussions

Chuck Melendi - Pharmaceutical Economics, Drug Pricing, Pharmacy Benefit Managers, Formularies, Rebates, Direct-to-consumer Advertising, And Healthcare Transparency.

Alerie Stiles - Pharmacy Benefit Managers, Vertically Integrated Healthcare Companies, Rebates, DIR Fees, Specialty-drug Access, And Medically Integrated Dispensing.

Chris Acevedo - Medical-practice Revenue Cycles, Payer Denials, Downcoding, Timely Filing, Medicare Rules, Compliance, Fraud-and-abuse Risk, And Payment Reconciliation.

Recent Topics

Healthcare, Pharmacy Benefits, Healthcare Policy, Health Insurance, Medical Practices

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

Working Healthcare

Ep. 116 - Workflow Secrets and a Patient Roadmap: How Allen Cooper Wants to Fix Healthcare

August 18, 2026

A hospital runs on more than white coats and exam rooms. It runs on hidden workflows, clunky communication and quiet decisions that either protect patients or push them into delays and frustration. In this episode of Working Healthcare, host Meredith Hirsh sits down with Allen Cooper, founder and CEO of ReadyLit, Inc., to explore how smarter operations can heal the system behind the scenes.Allen enters healthcare as a builder, not a clinician. He looks at outdated processes, fax-driven commun...

Ep. 115 - Rural Hospitals Are Vanishing — Tom Campanella Explains Why It Matters

August 11, 2026

Tom Campanella steps into Working Healthcare with a lifetime of battle-tested stories from the front lines of policy, payers and patients. He grew up in the inner city, walked into Cleveland City Council in his 20s and decided politics was not for him, yet he still craved real impact. He carried his law degree, CPA license and master’s in economics into healthcare and never looked back, trading campaign slogans for spreadsheets, contracts and community fights over access. Inside Blue Cross an...

Ep. 114 - From Castro’s Cuba to Florida’s First Health Secretary: Dr. Ana Viamonte Ros Fights for the Invisible Patient

August 04, 2026

A little girl watches her parents practice medicine in Cuba, emigrates to Miami and grows into a fifth generation physician who refuses to accept a health care system that treats some patients as second class. Today, Dr. Ana Viamonte Ros teaches future doctors, leads care for people experiencing homelessness and still walks into every clinic with one powerful question: Who feels invisible here and why.In this new episode of Working Healthcare, guest Ana of Camillus Health and Florida Internat...

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