Dr. Jim Rickards joins Dr. Britt Berrett for this episode, in which they discuss Rickards’ recently published book, Our Health Plan: Community Governed Healthcare That Works (New York: Morgan James Publishing: 2017). Rickards, a radiologist who earned his medical degree from Indiana University School of Medicine, also holds an MBA from Oregon Health and Science University. He is the senior medical director at Moda Health in Portland, Oregon. He was a pioneer in developing the Coordinated Care Model for the state of Oregon as a new way to deliver healthcare services to its nearly 1.1 million Medicaid members.
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