EP 46: Designing Healthcare Payment Equity | Josh Liao

Dr. Liao is a physician and Associate Chair for Health Systems in
the Department of Medicine at the University of Washington, where
he is also the enterprise-wide Medical Director of Payment Strategy
for UW Medicine. He trained in internal medicine at Brigham &
Women’s Hospital and was a Clinical Fellow in Medicine at Harvard
Medical School. He is an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis
Institute of Health Economics in the Wharton School at the
University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Liao is a leading national expert
in health care payment and delivery policy, generating seminal work
on value-based payment models, leading large grant-funded projects,
and providing expertise to national and state policymakers through
a number of capacities, including service on the US Department of
Health and Human Services' Physician-Focused Payment Model
Technical Advisory Committee, as well as multiple state advisory
groups for Washington state. He has published 200+ articles,
including over 150 in peer-reviewed medical journals such as the
New England Journal of Medicine, the Lancet, the Journal of the
American Medical Association, Health Affairs, the Annals of
Internal Medicine, and the British Medical Journal. His ideas and
insights have also appeared in outlets such as the Washington Post,
Forbes, the Boston Globe, NPR, the Seattle Times, and the
Philadelphia Inquirer. Bon and Josh talk about behavioral
architecture, redesigning the healthcare payment system and the
jump from Jacobean drama to Medicine.