Disruptive Dialogue with Chuck Melendi
Hosted by Chuck Melendi · Chuck Melendi
5.0from 30 ratings
- 40
- Episodes
- 7
- Transcribed
- 30
- Ratings
- Bi-weekly
- Cadence
- 2025
- First episode
- 29K
- YouTube views
About Disruptive Dialogue with Chuck Melendi
The healthcare system in our country is broken. It is time to fight for change, and to do it together. Tune in as retired industry executive Chuck Melendi and Disruptive Dialogue explore how healthcare corporations are sticking it to patients, providers and businesses. You need to know what is really going on in our overpriced and underperforming healthcare system. Consumers and their employers pay too much money for too little care, and the players running the show are making billions. Let’s create solutions, and let’s demand results. LET'S FIX HEALTHCARE.
- Publisher
- Chuck Melendi
- Category
- health & fitness
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 18 Apr 2025
- Latest episode
- 7 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
7 of 40 episodes have a transcript.
7 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Hospital Monopolies, Facility Fees, and the $4,000 MRI | ft. Ann Kempski (pt 1)
15 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
340B, Hospital Consolidation, and Where the Money Goes | ft. Brian Reid
31 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Insurers Profit From Denying Care. A Survivor Fights Back
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Hospital Monopolies, Facility Fees, and the $4,000 MRI | ft. Ann Kempski (pt 1)
Published 7 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] So actually, what I think a lot of your listeners may not realize is how much the the sort of balance of power has shifted from insurers to hospitals. Yeah, and I appreciate that overview. And, you know, it's one of these things that, look, we need the hospitals. We know we need hospitals. But, you know, if over the last four decades, the largest driver of healthcare costs in our country has been hospitals at about a third of the total cost. And to your point, you know, we have had We have drugs that keep people from going to the hospitals. We have laparoscopic surgeries that have reduced inpatient stays. […]
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- Ann Kempski
- Brian Reid
- Matt Zachary
- Todd Eury
- Doug Griesenauer
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 28,789
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 5.0 / 5
- 25 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 5 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 54 / 100
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- Quality
- 59
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 72
- Engagement
- 51
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