Consumer Driven Health Care

As a previous senior manager at Amazon, I have great confidence in this collaboration. Here are five thoughts about this partnership and its future success.

The companies' new partnership has the potential to be one of the most ambitious employer efforts to date to control health expenses.

Mike Dendy and I begin our conversation by discussing the widely-held myth of the PPO discount. From there we explore the general pricing methodologies and incentives in health care.

To make a dramatic impact on health care, we have to start from the beginning and the way each one of us engages with the health care system. From there, we can create the full chain to predict, preempt and proactively guide people to better care at a lower cost.

According to the National Business Group on Health, just three percent of large self-insured employers contract directly with an accountable-care organization for health care, but those that do are reaping the benefits.

Here are 10 tips to keep in mind throughout the year to help you become more innovative and disruptive.