Podcast

Brian Lobley spent more than 20 years inside one of the country's largest health insurers before crossing the aisle to fix the problem he "helped create." Now as CEO of tango, he is building the infrastructure that gets patients home faster, keeps them out of the hospital, and actually rewards the agencies doing the work.

Tom Maxwell sits down with Brian to break down why the post-acute system is fragmented, what value-based care looks like when it actually works at the episode level, and how tango is using AI to transform clinical workflows without replacing the clinician.

He explains:

• Why Medicare Advantage networks are broken and what payers keep getting wrong
• How tango eliminates the referral-to-authorization gap that delays care in the critical first 48 hours after discharge
• What value-based care actually looks like at the episode level and how providers get rewarded for it
• Why 10 to 12 percent of SNF admissions do not need to happen and what fixing that requires
• How AI is cutting 22-minute case reviews to five to eight minutes without replacing the clinician