Description: 

Welcome to the relaunch of the Impact Healthcare Podcast!

In this episode, Rob Gelb, CEO of Valenz, joins Lester J. Morales.

Together they discuss the misaligned incentives between employers and carriers and the importance of engaging early.

They also break down statistics surrounding the state of US healthcare today.

Rob also leaves the audience with several case studies for employers looking to take health benefits into their own hands.

Episode Notes: 

Rob kicks the podcast off the podcast by describing his passion for the health benefits industry (2:15) and the premise behind his philosophy of 'engage early and often. (3:40).

Lester and Rob discuss employers' hesitations about having their workforce advocate for their care (10:30) and discuss statistics surrounding Americans and healthcare. (14:35).

Rob explains what a well-designed healthcare plan looks like for employers (21:00) and how to implement incentives to create lower-cost and higher-quality healthcare benefits plans for employees (25:06).

Lastly, Rob breaks down case studies of employers who were able to achieve success by restructuring their health benefits plan and the members who benefitted (35:40).