This week on Inside Reproductive Health, Griffin hosts MedikalPreneur author, board-certified REI and OBGYN, and Inside Reproductive Health fan-favorite, Dr. Francisco (Paco) Arredondo to discuss the misguided concepts of physicians as business owners and operators, and what it takes to make it as both a healthcare provider as well as a successful proprietor. https://medikalpreneur.com/product/medikalpreneur/

Listen to hear:

• Dr. Arredondo’s 5 H’s for hiring success.

• Griffin point out that doctors can get away with bad business techniques because their trade is so high in demand.

• Griffin press on the tension between employee satisfaction and client retention, and question who really comes first, and why it matters.

• How much culture influences business success, and what to ask yourself about your own clinic operations.

• Dr. Arredondo’s crash course in business success as a practicing physician.

Boston IVF CEO David Stern describes some of the challenges of private equity backed businesses. Griffin grills David on the models of Boston IVF and their parent companies.

Listen to the latest episode of Inside Reproductive Health to hear

• David Stern talk about how little of their own money private equity firms typically use

• Griffin press David Stern on whether business decisions and clinical decisions are always separated

• David Stern and Griffin discuss the meaning of “trapped equity”

• What happens when Private Equity doesn’t flip at the right time, who pays for claw back provisions, and what about those hidden fees?

• David Stern talk about Boston IVF’s model for partnership

This week on Inside Reproductive Health, Griffin gets to the root of the insurance debacle in the fertility industry with Holly Hutchison, managing partner of Reproductive Health Center in Tucson, Arizona. Are cash pay patients subsidizing insurance companies’ poor coverage? How can practice owners survive when insurance authorizations are exceedingly slow, reimbursements are laughable, time to pay is unpredictable, and patients don’t understand their own coverage- or lack thereof? Who is left holding the bag when insurance doesn’t cover what it claims to, and can anything be done about it?

Listen to hear:

• The evolution of insurance in the fertility space: how it began, when it was successful for a hot second, and where it is today.

• Griffin question which is more beneficial to the provider- employer benefit groups or insurance companies- and why.

• Griffin question why fertility clinics haven’t cut out the insurance companies who are draining their bottom line.

• Griffin discuss the cost-benefit analysis: (Reimbursement, time to authorization, time to payment, volume to practice, patient cost sharing) and how to bring more leverage back to the provider.

Griffin hosts embryologist-turned-attorney, Igor Brusil, to discuss what he, as an attorney, believes is a bigger threat to the fertility space than the overturn of Roe v. Wade, and why. What implications could changing donor privacy laws have on your practice-even if you don’t practice in the state that overturns them? Could they extend beyond donor rights and result in an inspection of your business? Listen to hear one specialist’s opinion on Inside Reproductive Health with Griffin Jones.

Listen to hear:

• Who is advocating for the release of donor information, including medical history.

• What laws, changing in states like Colorado, could impact your practice (even if it is not in the same state).

• Griffin press on whether Roe v. Wade has a larger potential to damage the fertility space than changing donor privacy laws.

• Griffin question why no one is protecting the rights of the donors.

• Igor’s opinion on what you, as a practitioner, can do to protect yourself and your business.

This week on Inside Reproductive Health, Griffin Jones explains how reputation and brand overlap, how they are both born of positioning and culture, but are not equally synonymous. “Brand is about relevance and differentiation. Reputation is about legitimacy”.

In this week’s podcast, Griffin shares four competitive disadvantages for fertility business owners.

Listen to hear:

• What four things brand can do that reputation cannot.

• How impactful recognition is in your brand, and how to improve it.

• How your brand can align with peoples’ individual expression of self.