It's not easy to pave the way for innovation among large employers, but Marilyn Bartlett was always up for the challenge!

On the latest episode of Broken Benefits, we're joined by Marilyn Bartlett who has quite the decorated resume... to say the least. Marilyn held financial management positions in various industries, narrowing her focus to health care financial management and serving as controller for a Blue Cross Blue Shield carrier, chief financial officer for a regional third-party administrator, Montana State Employee Health Plan administrator, and special projects coordinator for the Montana Commissioner of Securities and Insurance. When she took the helm of the Montana Employee Benefit Plan, she led efforts to move the plan from projected reserves of minus $9 million to positive $112 million in less than three years. For her accomplishments, she was selected as #13 of Fortune Magazine’s World’s 50 Greatest Leaders of 2019.

In today's episode, we're unpacking some of the key takeaways from her career and advice for those looking to further innovate healthcare.

Timecodes:

0:33 - Introduction and overview on the guest for today's show

1:24 - Marilyn's groundbreaking idea while working for Montana

7:32 - Additional business practices that are lacking within healthcare

10:17 - The mistakes that people are commonly making in healthcare

14:56 - The biggest risk that we might be sitting on without knowing

18:36 - You need to be taking a hard look at your data

23:34 - Employers are going to be held more accountable moving forward

29:24 - Reference based pricing models

33:01 - Marilyn not being able to do direct contracts with hospitals

37:49 - Leverage your data in making strategic decisions

42:30 - Analyzing a transparent pass-through

45:35 - How to get in touch with Marilyn

46:40 - Closing remarks

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