RISE Radio

About RISE Radio

Join the RISE team as we chat with industry leaders and explore ever-changing policies, regulations, and challenges faced by health care professionals responsible for quality and revenue, Medicare member acquisition and experience, and/or social determinants of health. Produced by RISE, the number one source for information on all things Medicare Advantage.

Publisher

Ilene MacDonald

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

17 Feb 2021

Latest episode

19 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

36 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   19 Oct 2026

   Episode 35: Data is the new documentation: Preparing revenue cycle leaders for a connected health care ecosystem

   Revenue cycle success increasingly depends on an organization's ability to access, exchange, validate, and use data across a growing health care ecosystem. Documentation quality, coding accuracy, and compliant billing practices have supported performance for decades. Today, those foundations must connect with a broader approach to data. Financial performance, audit readiness, and compliance increasingly depend on more than coding and billing. As interoperability requirements expand and regula...

2. 

   10 Sept 2026

   Episode 34: The health care quality shift: Always-on, digital, and connected

   The rules of health care quality are changing fast, and the biggest shift is simple to say but harder to execute. Our latest episode focuses on this fundamental shift in health care quality performance, the future of digital quality, and the multi-pronged approach organizations need to stay ahead. Our guest, Shariff Baseer, vice president of product, quality, at Optum, unpacks what the CMS and NCQA digital quality roadmap really means for health plans, especially as STARS and HEDIS perf...

3. 

   31 Aug 2026

   Episode 33: 5 trends shaping value-based care in 2026

   Reveleer President and CEO Jay Ackerman discusses five key trends shaping value-based care in 2026 and how organizations can improve governance and audit readiness.

Who has been a guest on RISE Radio

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Jay Ackerman
• Ana Handshuh
• Melissa Smith
• Dawn Carter
• Dr Matt Lambert

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.9 / 5

7 ratings

Spotify

1.0 / 5

1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 31 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

35

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

67

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