Shows
Dear Cancer, I'm Beautiful"Policy Perspectives: Advocating For Change In Step Therapy Practice" with Alan Balch, CEO of Patient Advocate Foundation and National Patient Advocate FoundationMeet my new friend Alan Balch! Alan is the CEO of Patient Advocate Foundation and National Patient Advocate Foundation which provides patient services, eliminating obstacles in access to quality healthcare. Alan has over 20 years of executive leadership in the non-profit sector spanning multiple advocacy areas including access and affordability, health equity, prevention and early detection, and cancer research. As part of my special podcast series, "Your Voice. Your Health." focusing on step therapy, today we're going to take a deep dive into policy perpsectives and advocating for change. We're also going to learn Alan's "why" behind his mis...
2024-03-2752 min
Simplify Prior AuthorizationImproving the Reimbursement Road MapFeaturing Alan Birch, the Associate Director of Provider Solutions at Sentrex and Founder of Drug Access Canada.In this podcast, Alan shares with Denise Balch, Project Manager of Simplify Prior Authorization, why improving access points to reimbursement and the reimbursement process is critical to improving time to treatment and ultimately patient outcomes.You can find more about Drug Access Canada at www.drugaccess.ca and Simplify Prior Authorization, including Alan’s recent blog, at www.simplifypriorauth.ca.Look for our upcoming announcement on industry standards for prior authorization and more blogs and podcasts in...
2024-01-2327 min
P3 DokumentärNy: Självmordssekten Heaven's GateI mars 1997 hittas 39 personer döda i en exklusiv villa utanför San Diego och polisen konstaterar snabbt att det är ett massjälvmord. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radios app. Alla de döda har liknande svarta kläder, svarta Nike-skor och ett märke på ärmen där det står ”Heavens Gate - Away team”. De döda visar sig tillhöra en religiös sekt, som tror att de ska hämtas upp till himlen av ett rymdskepp som följer kometen Hale-Bopp. En komet som precis vid den här tiden, kan...
2023-05-111h 21
The Ron Flatter Racing PodFrom Kentucky Downs, a tribute to QEIIFrom Kentucky Downs, hear a tribute to the life of Queen Elizabeth II. California Thoroughbred Trainers executive director Alan Balch is a friend of the royal family who offers his thoughts on Her Majesty's passing. Hall of Famer and horse owner Dan Issel tells basketball stories and talks about the unique turf meet at Kentucky Downs. Baaeed's trainer William Haggas weighs in on the debate over whether his horse or Flightline is the best in the world. Handicapper Sara Elbadwi focuses on weekend graded stakes at Canterbury Park, Pimlico and Kentucky Downs. They all are on the Ron Flatter...
2022-09-091h 14
Decades of Horror | Horror News RadioHORROR HOSPITAL (1973) – Episode 163 – Decades Of Horror 1970s“I can’t work with animals anymore! I must have humans!” Damn the ethical principles of human experimentation! They’re such a bother. Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, and Jeff Mohr – as they witness the shenanigans going on in Horror Hospital (1973). Decades of Horror 1970s Episode 163 – Horror Hospital (1973) Join the Crew on the Gruesome Magazine YouTube channel! Subscribe today! And click the alert to get notified of new content! https://youtube.com/gruesomemagazine Two British companions who met on a train heading to the rural countryside...
2022-05-2559 minSimplify Prior AuthorizationThe Need for Administrative Efficiencies in Prior AuthorizationFeaturing a conversation between Denise Balch, President, Connex Health and Ramy El-Kholi, Pharm.D., Chief Commercial Officer, OkRx. Ramy has held diverse roles in both Canada and the U.S. including patient support programs, specialty pharmacy start ups, pharmacy benefits management and digital health.In this podcast Ramy El-Kholi and Denise Balch will speak about the logistics of the prior authorization (PA) process for specialty drugs and the complexities of the process which result in a significant administrative burden to PA stakeholders. Ramy will also explain how the process can be improved by creating administrative efficiencies through...
2022-03-1834 minSimplify Prior AuthorizationThe Rough Road to Navigating Drug Access in CanadaFeaturing a conversation between Denise Balch, President, Connex Health and Alan Birch, the Associate Director, Provider Solutions – Oncology with Sentrex. Alan is also the founder of Drug Access Canada.In this podcast Denise and Alan will speak about the reimbursement and approval process for patients who are prescribed specialty drugs that require prior authorization, the reimbursement gaps, and barriers to access. They will also explore how the landscape is changing. With more drugs expected to require prior authorization by insurers, new tools are required to cope with the administrative burden, a burden that is largely unknown to ad...
2022-02-1858 min
Advocates in ActionNavigating our Complex Health Care SystemThis year, Patient Advocate Foundation is celebrating 25 years of providing service to people facing serious illnesses. In this podcast, our CEO Alan Balch talks about the work we do and why it is so important. He highlights the extraordinary contributions that PAF caseworkers make in helping patients and caregivers navigate a complex health care system. For so many people, being diagnosed with a serious or chronic disease disrupts their entire life and can with it crushing financial and social problems. People find themselves facing huge medical bills, needing help understanding their insurance coverage or finding a plan that works...
2021-07-1323 min
The Connex Benefits Network PodcastEpisode #13 - Patient Navigation and Prior AuthorizationFeaturing Alan Birch, Drug Access Facilitator and Founder, Drug Access Canada.In this podcast, Denise Balch from Connex Health will be speaking with Alan Birch, who will describe his role in assisting oncology patients to secure access to the drugs they are prescribed and the challenges he faces on a day to day basis. You will also learn more about the real impact on patients, physicians and drug access navigators when treatments are delayed because of approval processes that could be more efficient. Alan will provide his insights into opportunities to bring efficiencies to the current prior...
2021-01-2940 minSimplify Prior AuthorizationPatient Navigation and Prior AuthorizationFeaturing Alan Birch, Drug Access Facilitator and Founder, Drug Access Canada.In this podcast, Denise Balch from Connex Health will be speaking with Alan Birch, who will describe his role in assisting oncology patients to secure access to the drugs they are prescribed and the challenges he faces on a day to day basis. You will also learn more about the real impact on patients, physicians and drug access navigators when treatments are delayed because of approval processes that could be more efficient. Alan will provide his insights into opportunities to bring efficiencies to the current prior...
2021-01-2940 min
Out of Patients with Matthew Zachary"The System" – What Is It Good for? Absolutely Something, Maybe?On the show today, Alan Balch, CEO at the Patient Advocate Foundation and the National Patient Advocate Foundation. After we reconcile that Alan is one of the few people actually doing what they studied in college, and without triggering his inner political economist, we talk about the fundamental question: Why do patient advocate groups even need to exist in the first place? After all, if they did what they’re supposed to do, there wouldn’t even be a need. But there is. When we say the words “the system,” it always implies an ominous, immovable, intractable and unwieldy, monolith...
2021-01-0532 min
Biz Soup Podcast RadioAlan BalchAlan Balch discusses the current political and social climate of horse racing and training.
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President Alan F. Balch, USA Equestrian Trust, has enjoyed horses his entire life. He competed as a junior with Saddlebreds, Hunters, and Jumpers and went on to officiate in many capacities in competition management, including paddock steward, announcer, and manager. He has announced at many horse competitions including the National Horse Show in New York City’s Madison Square Garden, the World’s Championship Horse Show in Louisville, KY, and Devon and the American Royal in Kansas City, MO.
His mana...
2020-02-0518 min
Engaging Experts by Journal of Clinical PathwaysPathways for Person-Centered Care: Standardizing the Patient Engagement ProcessAlan Balch, PhD, chief executive officer, National Patient Advocate Foundation, describes his vision of a “person-centered pathway” wherein patient-specific factors and preferences provide the foundation of a clinical pathway.
2020-01-3126 min
The Next Big Thing in HealthThe Empowered Patient: Patient Advocate Foundation | 06Hosts Laura Evans and Matt Eyles sit down with Alan Balch, chief executive officer of the Patient Advocate Foundation.
2019-12-1235 min
The ONS PodcastEpisode 34: Industry Challenges Contribute to Financial ToxicityIn this third panel discussion from ONS's Health Policy Summit in Washington DC, Alan Balch, PhD, Patient Advocate Foundation chief executive officer, Mike Ybarra, MD, FAAEM, FACEP, vice president of medical affairs for the Pharmaceutical Research Manufacturers Association, and Jeannine Walston, a 20-year brain cancer survivor and patient advocate, discuss the challenges of tackling financial toxicity from an industry perspective, how nurses can advocate for patient resources, and much more. Music Credit: "Fireflies and Stardust" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 Episode Notes:
2019-02-011h 06