EP237: Improving Health Care Value by Pausing and Asking Questions, With Derek Winn, Cofounder at Distilled Concepts and Consultant at the Business Benefits Group

Improving Health Care Value by Pausing and Asking Questions, With Derek Winn (EP237)

"Look Both Ways Before You Cross the Street": A Case for Pausing in Health Care. Episode 237.

Bad things tend to happen in health care when patients are placed on a trajectory and simply follow it — down a road that can lead to unnecessary surgeries, MRIs priced ten times over, and low-quality providers chasing RVUs. In this episode, Stacey Richter talks with Derek Winn, cofounder at Distilled Concepts and consultant at the Business Benefits Group, about treating every health care transaction as a waypoint worth pausing at and questioning.

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

✅ Why Derek Winn frames every interaction with the health care system as a waypoint on a larger journey — and an opportunity to pause and ask questions

✅ Why payers have a growing opportunity, and maybe obligation, to help employees and patients adopt a "look both ways before you cross the street" mindset

✅ Whether pausing to ask questions could become standard operating procedure, and what that would mean for providers, carriers, and pharma

✅ How BUCA carriers (Blue Cross, United, Cigna, Aetna, and Anthem) factor into how employers might drive this kind of change

WHY THIS MATTERS

A patient who pauses to ask questions at each waypoint in their care journey is safer, both financially and clinically, than one who simply follows the path they're put on. If payers can build that habit of pausing into how they support employees and members, it changes the leverage patients have at every subsequent decision point.

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🔗 Show Notes with all mentioned links: Episode Page

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