Why Avoidable ER Visits Aren't the Real Cost Problem: Revisiting Our Interview With HHS Nominee Chris Klomp

Podcast: Relentless Health Value · Stacey Richter

Opublikowano: 2026-10-07

Emergency Department High Utilizers and Real-Time Care Coordination, With Chris Klomp (Episode 532) Today we are dipping into the archives for an essential replay from 2016, one decade ago, featuring Chris Klomp back when he served as CEO of Collective Medical, and now nominated to serve as deputy secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), a nearly $2 trillion federal health apparatus. In this conversation, Klomp explains why emergency medicine is only 2 to 4% of total U.S. healthcare cost, so avoidable ED spend can't be more than about 0.8 to 0.9% of total spend, and why the emergency department...