EP244: A Playbook for Jumbo Employers—or Providers, Consultants, Carriers, or Pharma Who Get Paid by Jumbo Employers, With Lee Lewis, Chief Strategy Officer at the Health Transformation Alliance

A Playbook for Jumbo Employers on Fixing Health Care Benefits, With Lee Lewis of the Health Transformation Alliance (EP244)

The Three-Chapter Playbook Jumbo Employers Are Using to Fix Health Benefits. Episode 244.

The Health Transformation Alliance (HTA) is a group of 50 major corporations that have banded together with one goal: fix a broken health care system. In this episode, Stacey Richter talks with Lee Lewis, the newly minted chief strategy officer at the HTA, about the three-chapter playbook he uses to improve health care benefits for large employers — a playbook built around the idea that employers and employees can both come out ahead at once.

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

✅ Why Lee Lewis says fixing employer health benefits is like having your cake and eating it too — employers save money while employees get better care and spend less time navigating the health care system alone

✅ The first chapter of Lee's playbook, the "how": the administrative superstructure underlying a benefits plan

✅ The second chapter, the "what": drug spend and how care is delivered for high-cost clinical conditions like musculoskeletal and cardiometabolic disease

✅ The third chapter, the "who": where employees get steered for care, with an emphasis on primary care providers

WHY THIS MATTERS

Jumbo employers have leverage that smaller purchasers don't, and the HTA was built to use it collectively across 50 major corporations. Lee Lewis's three-chapter framework — how, what, and who — gives any employer, provider, consultant, carrier, or pharma company that gets paid by jumbo employers a concrete structure for thinking about where the real savings and quality gains actually come from.

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🔗 Show Notes with all mentioned links: Episode Page

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