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Josh Luke          

Futurist; Experienced Hospital CEO; Author & Whistleblower

Dr. Josh Luke is a hospital CEO, healthcare futurist, and best-selling author, widely recognized for his expertise in healthcare strategy, innovation, and affordable care delivery. With extensive experience as both a practitioner and thought leader, he has held roles including hospital CEO, health system Vice President, and nursing home administrator. Dr. Luke teaches graduate-level courses on healthcare management and aging services at the University of Southern California’s Sol Price School of Public Policy, and serves as adjunct faculty.

Dr. Luke founded the National Readmission Prevention Collaborative and the National Bundled Payment Collaborative, pioneering initiatives aimed at reducing unnecessary hospital readmissions and improving patient outcomes while promoting value-based care models. His leadership in these areas, combined with his drive to enhance healthcare affordability and accessibility, has established him as a prominent speaker, consultant, and advocate for patient-centered, value-based healthcare. His efforts have been recognized across the industry, particularly for his role in transitioning from fee-for-service to value-based payment models.

In addition to his reformative work, Dr. Luke has authored influential books including "Readmission Prevention: Solutions Across the Provider Continuum" and "Ex-Acute: A former hospital CEO tells all on what’s wrong with American healthcare, What every American needs to know." His keynote addresses, such as "Serendipity: Pandemic Lessons that Lead to Riches" and "Become an EHC, an Engaged Healthcare Consumer," reflect his commitment to educating both healthcare professionals and consumers. He continues to serve as Chief Strategy Officer for Nelson Hardiman Healthcare Law and its subsidiary consulting firm, Compliagent, guiding future legal and operational frameworks in healthcare. Through his writings, speeches, and leadership roles, Dr. Luke is a pivotal figure shaping the future of healthcare in America.

Speech Topics


The Health System of the Future: Keynote for Healthcare Executives

Dr. Josh Luke is a healthcare futurist, hospital CEO and health system vice president well known for his humorous and entertaining personal stories that engage audiences. His expertise includes sharing simple tactics on how hospitals and health systems can partner with innovative disease specific providers to increase revenues and market share. His knowledge of these specialized providers comes as a result of his role with Forbes as an author and contributor known to Fortune 500 Company's as America's Healthcare Affordability Authority.

After ten years as a hospital CEO, a new owner arrived and Luke was out of a job, had no health insurance for his family, and his mother was subsequently diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease. Soon after he penned his first book and became a best-selling author. He now finds solace in sharing his experiences as a caretaker for his mom and being without health insurance for his family has given him a deeply emotional understanding of the other side of care delivery.

Luke shares his faith and how it impacted his journey, and his presentations are always entertaining, humorous, and leave the audience feeling enthusiastic and informed. Luke, shares some of his early career stories in sports marketing as well as experiences as a young healthcare executive as they helped shape the leader he became as a hospital CEO. He founded the National Readmission Prevention Collaborative and is a social media influencer who writes for LinkedIn's Healthcare Pulse.

Dr. Luke has previously spoken for AHA, ACHE, South By Southwest, at Health 2.0, multiple state hospital association trade organization annual meetings (including rural hospital events) and more than 150 other events globally. Each appearance includes up to 250 complementary copies of his book Ex-Acute: A former hospital CEO tells all on what's wrong with American healthcare. Luke also promotes all speaking events on four social media platforms, his radio show & podcast and has a healthcare executive mailing list of more than 200,000 opt-in subscribers nationwide he can utilize to market your event as well. He is guaranteed to be a hit and your highest rated speaker at the event!

Three Take-Aways:

  1. Attendees will understand the shift in control from the hospital sector to the insurance sector and how home based care will be the focus of the industry.

  2. Attendees will understand that hospitals are shifting from profit centers to the largest expense in a bigger model.

  3. Attendees will learn new revenue streams for health systems transforming to value based care that are no longer able to rely solely on inpatient revenue and surgical programs for profitability.

Health-Wealth: Tips on How to Spend Less on Healthcare

Dr. Luke shares the well-kept secrets of the industry with the mainstream to ensure that individuals are fully informed to protect and ensure the health of family members and employees. Luke shares his faith and how it impacted his journey, and his presentations are always entertaining, humorous, and leave the audience feeling enthusiastic and informed. Dr. Luke also shares some of his early career stories in sports marketing as well as experiences as a young healthcare executive as they helped shape the leader he became as a hospital CEO.

Now, he exposes the long-kept secrets of the healthcare trade to help businesses and families keep healthcare from bankrupting their American Dream.

Each appearance includes complementary copies of his book Ex-Acute: A former hospital CEO tells all on what's wrong with American healthcare. Luke also promotes all speaking events on four social media platforms, his radio show & podcast and has a healthcare executive mailing list of more than 200,000 opt-in subscribers nationwide he can utilize to market your event as well. He is guaranteed to be a hit and your highest rated speaker at the event!

Three Take-Aways

  1. Attendees will understand that the only path to reducing personal and corporate healthcare costs is by individual engagement. Examples are provided of how an individual can reduce spending by thousands of dollars annually by taking just a few simple step.

  2. Attendees will understand that becoming an Engaged Healthcare Consumer requires an individual to create a Plan based on Preventative Medicine tactics and Personalized Medicine Tactics (the three P's).

  3. Attendees will hear a number of specific tactics they can implement as part of their plan to become an EHC. When individual consumers become EHC's, corporate healthcare spending is reduced as well.

Creating a Culture of Confidence: Empowering Smart Decisions, not Safe Decisions

Creating a Culture of Confidence: Empowering Smart Decisions, not Safe Decisions

Two time Whistleblower shares the 4 pillars of trust that lead to value added decision making

Employees are hired to bring added value to organizations. But in most cases they lack the confidence in management to make decisions that bring added-value, instead opting to take the high road and stay off the radar. In this presentation longtime corporate CEO, turned whistleblower and best-seller, Dr. Josh Luke shares the four pillars of building trust within an organization, ultimately empowering smart decisions that drive value. #DoTheRightThing

Key take-Aways:

  • Creating a Culture where job preservation no longer drives decisions

  • Tactics to create value -added decisions making culture

  • Reward team members willing to voice opposing views

The presentation includes personal stories and engaging commentary and tactics that audience members can utilize to create a culture of value added decision making in their environment.

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