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Selling to Healthcare with Lisa T. Miller

Selling to Healthcare with Lisa T. Miller

By: Lisa T. Miller
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Selling to Healthcare with Lisa T. Miller: Transforming Transactions into Partnerships Join Lisa T. Miller, a renowned healthcare sales innovator responsible for generating over $200 million in revenue, as she unveils her groundbreaking approach: transforming traditional sales into meaningful partnerships built on exceptional service. In this insightful five-part series, Lisa leverages her 30+ years of hands-on expertise to guide you through the complex and rapidly evolving healthcare landscape. Each episode delivers practical strategies, real-world case studies, and proven tactics to enhance your effectiveness, deepen client relationships, and drive impactful results in healthcare sales. Here's what makes "Selling to Healthcare" essential listening: Proven Expertise: Go beyond theory and explore tangible, actionable advice drawn directly from Lisa's extensive experience closing significant deals across healthcare settings. Service-Centric Strategies: Learn how adopting a service-first philosophy can dramatically increase your value, credibility, and long-term success with healthcare decision-makers. Insights into Decision-Makers: Gain deep insights into the mindset of healthcare leaders, understanding how to anticipate their needs and effectively address their priorities. Mastering Complexity: Navigate the complexities of healthcare regulations, diverse stakeholders, and institutional processes with confidence and clarity. Building Trust: Discover Lisa's blueprint for establishing authentic, trust-based partnerships that lead to sustained growth and mutual success. Whether you're an experienced healthcare sales professional aiming to sharpen your skills or a newcomer eager to stand out, "Selling to Healthcare" provides the essential tools, proven methodologies, and powerful insights you need to excel. Tune in with Lisa T. Miller to redefine your approach to healthcare sales, transforming transactional interactions into lasting partnerships that positively impact the healthcare industry.Selling To Healthcare with Lisa T. Miller © 2024 | https://www.lisatmiller.com Economics Marketing Marketing & Sales Politics & Government
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  • The gap is not where most sales leaders think it is | E.20

    The gap is not where most sales leaders think it is | E.20
    Jun 5 2026

    In episode twenty of "Selling to Healthcare," Lisa T. Miller confronts a pattern she keeps hearing from sellers and sales leaders alike. When she describes the mechanics of earning C-suite access — pulling a hospital's Medicare Cost Report, calculating a cost-to-charge ratio, building a one-page margin leak brief — the honest reaction is some version of "I'm not sure my team could actually do that." Lisa argues that feeling is correct, but the gap it points to is structural, not personal — and it's the most valuable territory in healthcare sales.

    She explains why even the best sales methodologies leave reps short. Challenger, Blue Sheets, and the rest teach a rep to qualify a deal, structure a discovery call, map a buying committee, and handle objections — but none of them teach a seller how to read a Cost Report worksheet or what a CFO is actually looking at when reviewing service line profitability. The result is a rep who is fluent in their product and average in the language of the buyer.

    Lisa lays out the math the way she sees it: of a thousand reps calling on the same health system, maybe one has actually opened the Cost Report and triangulated it against MedPAR and the IPPS tables before reaching out. That rep gets the meeting — and behind them is a company that decided the work was worth doing. She walks through how to build the competency at the individual level (start with one hospital, write three versions of a one-page brief) and at the company level (hiring filters, graded onboarding, protected calendar time, peer-reviewed briefs).

    This episode is a direct, practical case for treating hospital financial fluency as a learnable, coachable moat — the thing that turns a sales call into a conversation between two people looking at the same problem from two different seats, and that makes access start coming to you instead of you chasing it.

    Highlights of this Episode Include:

    • The Gap Is Structural, Not Personal: If your team can't read a Cost Report, that's not a talent problem — it's that no one built the systems, skills, and support to make it possible.
    • Methodologies Aren't Enough: Challenger and Blue Sheets are real skills, but none of them teach a rep the hospital finance that actually matters to a CFO.
    • The Math of Access: Of 1,000 reps on the same health system, ~950 lead with product and maybe 1 has triangulated the Cost Report against MedPAR and IPPS — that's the one who gets the meeting.
    • "I've Never Seen This Before": CFOs who field vendor pitches every week told Lisa they'd never seen her analysis — not because the data was exotic, but because no vendor had ever built it from the public sources sitting in plain sight.
    • Insight Is a Category Competitors Skip: Once you bring real financial analysis, you stop competing on price and product and start competing on insight — a category most rivals never enter.
    • Start With One Cost Report: Pick one hospital in your pipeline, open Worksheet A and C, learn the cost-to-charge ratio, layer in IPPS and MedPAR, and write the brief three times — the building is what teaches you.
    • Make It a Company Strategy: A real moat looks like hiring filters, graded onboarding, protected weekly brief-building time, and comp that rewards depth of analysis over velocity of activity.


    Read the full article: https://www.selltohospitals.com/p/most-companies-selling-into-hospitals

    Learn more about Lisa at https://lisatmiller.com/about

    Book an appointment - https://calendly.com/lisa_t_miller/30min

    LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisamiller/

    Learn about Lisa's Services & Workshops:

    • https://www.lisatmiller.com/lisa-t-miller-services/
    • https://fluentinhealthcare.com/
    • https://healthcaresalesmasterclass.com/
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    12 mins
  • 7 Hidden Data Sources for Selling Into the Hospital C-Suite | E.18

    7 Hidden Data Sources for Selling Into the Hospital C-Suite | E.18
    May 29 2026

    In this episode, Gavin Lira sits down again with Lisa T. Miller to break down seven free data sources every hospital sales rep should know how to use. Lisa explains how publicly available hospital data can help sales teams prepare better, personalize outreach, understand hospital priorities, and build more relevant conversations with healthcare executives.

    They cover tools like CMS Hospital Care Compare, Medicare Cost Reports, Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades, IRS Form 990s, CMS Open Payments, hospital annual reports, strategic plans, state health department data, and certificate of need filings. Lisa also shares how AI tools can make this research much easier by helping reps pull insights from complex databases that used to be hard to access.

    Throughout the conversation, Lisa gives practical examples of how hospital sales reps can use this data to identify financial pressures, patient safety concerns, readmission challenges, emergency department bottlenecks, payer mix issues, growth opportunities, and future expansion plans. She also showcases a free tool she built to help users quickly look up hospital emergency department performance metrics.

    This episode is especially helpful for healthcare sales professionals, founders, consultants, and marketers who want to stop using generic pitches and start approaching hospitals with specific, useful, data-backed insights.

    Episode Resources:

    Book a call with Lisa: https://calendly.com/lisa_t_miller/30min

    Closing Stalled Deals Mini-Book: https://www.lisatmiller.com/closing-stalled-deals/

    How To work with Lisa: https://www.lisatmiller.com/lisa-t-miller-services/

    Lisa's Hospital ED Performance Tool: https://hospital-ed-performance.lovable.app/
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    55 mins
  • C-Suite Access is Earned | E.19

    C-Suite Access is Earned | E.19
    May 29 2026
    In this episode of "Selling to Healthcare," Lisa T. Miller confronts the single most common frustration she hears every week from sales leaders and reps alike — I can't get a meeting with the C-suite. Her answer is one principle that reframes the whole problem: access is earned, it is never expected. The frustration most sellers carry rests on a quiet assumption that outreach should be enough. It won't be, and Lisa argues it shouldn't be. Lisa unpacks why the word "value" has quietly stopped meaning value in healthcare sales. The industry's standard three buckets — reduce cost, increase revenue, reduce risk — are true but generic, and the reflexive move of sending a cold case study now signals that the conversation is about the vendor, not the executive. Hospital executives don't withhold meetings because they're difficult; they withhold them because nothing in the typical pitch moves their priorities forward. She then walks through three of the eight strategies she coaches clients on. The first and most powerful is leading with a unique insight built from the hospital's own data — not a Google stat or an AI summary, but a one-page executive brief that triangulates three public data sets (the Medicare Cost Report/HCRIS, the CMS IPPS Final Rule tables, and MedPAR) to expose margin leakage by DRG. That is not a pitch, it's consulting. The second is publishing original content only you could have written — work a generalist couldn't reproduce in an afternoon — so executives reach out to you. The third is showing up differently in outreach: a thirty-second async video, a no-charge executive briefing, or genuinely asking an executive to edit your thinking. Lisa closes by pointing to Salesforce's early discipline — every meaningful deal involved the CEO — and makes the case that C-suite selling is a layer you add on top of Challenger, MEDDIC, or Miller Heiman, not a replacement. The harder question to sit with isn't why they aren't responding; it's what you've given them that would make a response inevitable. Highlights of this Episode Include: Access Is Earned, Never Expected: Hospital executives don't owe you their time. A thoughtful email or polite voicemail doesn't entitle you to a meeting — and a quiet inbox is feedback, not bad luck.Why "Value" Stopped Meaning Value: Cost, revenue, and risk are true but generic, and a cold case study signals the conversation is about you, not them. When every rep leads with the same proof point, the proof point stops working.Lead With a Unique Insight, Not Your Solution: A real insight is your own thinking applied to their specific hospital, drawing on data the executive hasn't stitched together themselves — the move that separates the rep who gets the meeting from the rep who keeps following up.Build the Brief From Three Public Data Sets: Triangulate the Medicare Cost Report (HCRIS), the CMS IPPS Final Rule tables, and MedPAR to estimate true margin by DRG, isolate implant cost variance, and quantify length-of-stay drag — turning a vendor pitch into a peer-level financial review.First, They're Already Ignoring You: To the fear that giving away a brief means they'll take it and disappear — the downside is zero, because they're already ignoring you. The likelier reaction: if this is what they sent unasked, what would they bring as an advisor?Publish Content Only You Could Write: Not a blog post an AI tool generates in ninety seconds, but real intellectual work a generalist couldn't replicate. The test is simple — could someone produce the same piece in an afternoon? If yes, you haven't built a moat.Show Up Differently in Your Outreach: A thirty-second video, a no-charge executive briefing with no pitch attached, or asking an executive to push back on something you wrote. The through line: you're not asking for access, you're demonstrating value in advance.Layer C-Suite Discipline Onto Your Method: Salesforce closed its early enterprise deals through the CEO — a discipline, not a vanity stat. Keep Challenger, MEDDIC, or Miller Heiman, and add a C-suite layer earned through insight, content, and differentiated outreach. Read the full article: https://www.selltohospitals.com/p/c-suite-access-is-earned Learn more about Lisa at https://lisatmiller.com/about Book an appointment - https://calendly.com/lisa_t_miller/30min LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisamiller/ Learn about Lisa's Workshops: https://fluentinhealthcare.com/https://healthcaresalesmasterclass.com/
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    14 mins
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