The Saving Dose
The podcast for those building the future of healthcare. A clinician, a healthcare attorney, and a behavioral health executive on what's actually working in addiction, adherence, and the capital reshaping both.
75% of patients do not take medications as prescribed. 125,000 Americans die from it every year. $528 billion in preventable costs trace directly to a gap the healthcare system has known about for decades and never closed: what happens after the prescription is written.
The Saving Dose is a podcast about that gap, the space between the clinic visit and the outcome, between the evidence-based treatment and the patient who never receives it, between the innovation that works and the reimbursement system that decides whether anyone can afford to deliver it.
Hosted by Kendra Allen, Dr. John Hsu, and William Pedranti, the show brings together a behavioral health revenue strategist, an addiction medicine physician, and a biotech entrepreneur to go inside the clinical, operational, and commercial realities of addiction recovery, medication adherence, opioid use disorder (OUD), and behavioral health. Three different vantage points on the same broken system. Honest about what fails, specific about why, and direct about what a real fix requires.
Topics include: MOUD and MAT clinic operations, medication-assisted treatment adherence, behavioral health reimbursement, opioid use disorder treatment, payer contracting, DEA compliance, FFS-to-value-based care transitions, and the patient adherence gap in controlled substance prescribing.
The Saving Dose is for investors evaluating the addiction recovery and behavioral health infrastructure market. For clinic operators and executives running opioid treatment programs, MOUD practices, and behavioral health facilities. For clinicians in addiction medicine and pain management. For payers and administrators navigating the cost and risk of behavioral health coverage.
New episodes every two weeks. Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and wherever you listen.
The Saving Dose
Latest Episodes
Investigative Reporter on How Opioid Settlement Funds Are Spent | The Saving Dose Ep. 07 ft. Ed Mahon
In the seventh episode of The Saving Dose, Dr. John Hsu and William Pedranti are joined by Ed Mahon, an investigative journalist at Spotlight PA who has spent years covering how opioid settlement funds are being allocated across Pennsylvania an...
Why Chronic Pain Is Under-treated in the USA | The Saving Dose Ep. 06 Ft. Kevin James
In the sixth episode of The Saving Dose, Dr. John Hsu and William Pedranti are joined by Kevin James, a chronic pain patient, advocate, and member of Chronic Pain Australia, speaking from Brisbane, Queensland. Kevin has lived with c...
What Happens to Patients After the Prescription Runs Out | The Saving Dose Ep. 05
In the fifth episode of The Saving Dose, Dr. John Hsu and William Pedranti go inside opioid use disorder from the ground up: what it actually is, what causes it, why the people most affected by it are being failed by a system that was never des...
The Business of Opioid Treatment | The Saving Dose Ep. 04
In the fourth episode of The Saving Dose, William Pedranti and Kendra Allen continue their conversation on the operational reality inside opioid treatment programs and get into the part of addiction recovery that almost nobody in the industry t...
Inside the Black Box of Addiction Treatment | The Saving Dose Ep. 03
In the third episode of The Saving Dose, William Pedranti sits down with Kendra Allen to map the full continuum of addiction treatment in America and go inside the operational reality of the clinics trying to deliver it. This is not a conversat...