The Treatment Triad is an equilateral triangle consisting of the Payer, the Provider, and the Patient. When all are fully responsible for their parts, the result is a healthier population with lower costs and well compensated providers.
While the current system pushes back on major disruption in these areas, there are opportunities for otherwise significant innovation, including direct contracting for services.
4 Sept 2026
Judgment vs. Discernment
Being judgmental at times has led to some very difficult lessons, whereas learning to exercise discernment has cultivated greater wisdom.
2 Aug 2026
Down, But Not Out
Sharing some hard lessons learned as a healthcare entrepreneur, from partnerships and contracts to milestones and being over-extended personally, this is an off-the cuff raw look at what's been happening.
26 May 2026
The Game - Five Components for Designing Your Life
We usually spend most of our time playing games that other people created, whether knowingly or unknowingly, assuming roles and identities assigned to us.
Most people wind up just being pawns, while others may rise up to higher roles at times, such as knights, bishops or rooks. A few become queens or kings.
Even fewer become the players themselves – the ones directing the moves of all the pieces.
But the rarest of all are the ones who created the game to begin with. These are the true masters – the ones who invented the rules and designed the components and relayed the strategies for people to play.
This is perhaps the highest form of creation – to be the inventor of the game and then choosing to assume a role or identity and play it.
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1 May 2026
How Parity & The ACA Corrupted the Behavioral Health Industry
Join us as we take a look at some of the fallout in the behavioral health industry that was directly or indirectly attributed to the Mental Health and Addiction Equity Parity Act and the Affordable Care Act.
21 Apr 2026
Significance - The Meaning We Give To Life
Nothing means anything in and of itself. Everything becomes more or less influential in life based on the meaning or significance we place on it.
Read some of the notes at at https://lucascatton.com.
17 Apr 2026
How Opioid Treatment Laws Perpetuate the Epidemic
We’ve all heard about the opioid epidemic and the number of fatalities that rose for decades. If you’ve followed the stories a bit closer, you’ve likely heard about other elements. We’re going to dive a bit deeper, though, not at the illegal drug trade, but at the system surrounding opioid addiction, treatment, and recovery.
11 Apr 2026
The Manufactured Mental Health Crisis: How We've Been Lied To
More money is being spent on addiction and mental health than ever before, yet statistics are continuing to worsen. It's time we ask the right questions of the right people and start implementing common sense.
This is the first in a multi-part series as we take a closer look at many of the points made in this episode. If you'd like to get in touch, you can do so through Innovia Life.
25 Sept 2025
The $50 Billion Rural Health Transformation Program
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced the Rural Health Transformation (RHT) Program, which includes $50 billion in funding over the next five years.
We're excited for Innovia Life to work with partnering organizations and states directly to help accomplish the goals of the program and make efficient use of funds to help the most people.
The five strategic goals of the RHT include:
Make rural America healthy again
Sustainable access
Workforce development
Innovative care
Tech innovation
28 Aug 2025
A Formula for Change
This simple formula for change applies to individuals, small groups, large organizations, and even whole populations. It can fit within any other system change framework as well.
Awareness + Belief + Desire + Necessary Actions = Desired Change
Listen to hear how each part fits with the others.
17 Aug 2025
The Healthcare Reckoning
The reckoning for our current healthcare system is here, as the costs have gotten so far out of control and the wellbeing of our nation has gotten worse. It is out of control and it has to change. We have to align incentives, hold all parties accountable, and shift into more of a prevention and wellness approach rather than a sick-care and chronic condition approach. Innovia Life can help.
25 Jun 2025
The Power of Connection & Lived Experience
For thousands of years people have sought connection and support from others to handle challenges in life. The power of this is amplified when people share their lived experience with each other to help provide insight, resources, tools, strategies, comfort, and more. I'd argue that this is more valuable and more appropriate for most people than clinical interventions.
8 Jun 2025
The Evolution of Innovia Life
I've worked in healthcare for 26 years, with most of it being in behavioral health. This is the story of how I came up with the plan for Innovia Life and where we're heading. We help everyday people lead happier, healthier lives through subclinical support. Broad implementation of our services in the continuum of care will cut $200 billion from the national healthcare expenditure while improving the overall wellbeing of large populations.
5 Jun 2025
The Behavioral Health and Insurance Debacle
There has long been a struggle between mental health and addiction treatment providers and insurance companies. Both sides have some valid points, and both sides have also gone too far over the line. In the middle, the patients suffer - those who are supposed to be receiving help. Let's take a look at a few aspects of the system that need to be cleaned up.
25 May 2025
How the System Exploits Therapy
Roughly 59 people in the Unites States aged 18 and over meet the criteria of having any mental illness (AMI) at some point during the year. The system has been created to point them to less effective and even harmful treatments. What can we do to help?
25 May 2025
Why the Title?
Welcome to the introductory episode of the Down with the Sickness podcast/don’t call it a podcast with Lucas Catton. Learn about the back story for the title and hear about upcoming topics for episodes.
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