The Paytient Podcast

Mar 26 2024
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The Paytient Podcast is a show about how people access and afford healthcare. We cover trends in health and benefits while talking to innovators who are empowering consumers to take charge of their health. We explore the implications of decisions made at the benefits level, with an eye toward how we can all lead healthier lives. To learn more, visit us at https://www.paytient.com/.

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Breaking Down Barriers to Care with Dawn Beaudin, Hyatt Corporation’s VP of Benefits

Mar 26 2024 33 mins  
On this episode of The Paytient Podcast, host Laura Cave sits down with Dawn Beaudin, the Vice President of Benefits at Hyatt, to discuss innovative benefit solutions that break down barriers to care. Hyatt, known for its exceptional benefits program, owes much of its success to the pioneering work of Dawn Beaudin and her team.Throughout the episode, Dawn sheds light on Hyatt'

Ensuring equitable access to care amidst economic turmoil: Hear NABIP CEO Jessica Woods Brooks on what benefit advisors can do to help clients cope

Dec 06 2023 40 mins  
Most employers expect health plan costs to increase heading into 2024, and this isn't a new trend. Still, it's gotten to a point where it's stretching employers and employees financially so much that many seek ideas beyond the traditional strategies. Of the 158 million Americans who get health insurance through their employers, almost a quarter are “underinsured”

How Transparency and the Election will Impact Healthcare Access & Affordability in 2024 with CIAB President Joel Wood

Jul 18 2023 37 mins  
Joel Wood is the President of The Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers. He has been the top regulatory and government affairs officer at The Council since 1993. He came to Washington a decade earlier to work as a press and legislative director for Rep. Don Sundquist (R-Tenn.). He joined us on the Paytient Podcast to discuss his vantage point around affordability and access wit

Building a Better Benefits Universe: Insights from Cameron Betts of Mercer

Jun 20 2023 42 mins  
Cameron Betts of Mercer joins us on the podcast to talk about what’s in and what's out for benefits in 2024.Cameron is a Senior Health & Benefits Consultant with Mercer where he consults on health and benefits strategy for U.S. based and global employers.We're all aware that this year's big headline is about how inflation is driving up prices that are squeezing

Employee Benefit Strategies You Need to Know for 2024 with Jeff Faber of HUB

Jun 07 2023 27 mins  
This week, we welcomed Jeff Faber, Employee Benefits Chief Strategy Officer of HUB International to the show for a conversation about what’s next in employee benefits for 2024.Benefit professionals and the teams they serve are dealing with a slew of challenges this year, including:InflationTurnover and absenteeismDeclining population healthHealth inequitiesWe asked Jeff to shed l

How Employers Are Using HPAs to Drive Retention and DEI Outcomes With Chris Labrecque

Apr 19 2023 23 mins  
With a turnover, absenteeism, and health inequities keeping too many people out of the doctor's office, Paytient's Health Payment Account is designed to help employers retain their employees by removing the financial barriers to care.In this episode, Chris Labrecque, who recently joined our team as Chief Customer Officer, joins us to unpack how employers are using Health

Supporting Parents Returning from Leave with Lori Mihalich-Levin of Mindful Return

Apr 10 2023 27 mins  
In this episode, we're having the important conversation on the personal and professional identity transition to working parenthood and how benefits that help the transition set new parents up for future processional success.Coming back to work after having a baby can feel like returning to a world that has stayed the same while yours has changed massively. While the disruptio

Growing the Mission with Jodi Hubler, Paytient's new Independent Director

Mar 29 2023 29 mins  
We’re proud to announce Jodi Hubler has joined our mission to help people access and afford healthcare as our first and only independent director. As our team looks to scale the growth of its innovative Health Payment Account product offering, Jodi will bring to bear her experience on both the buy side and the sell side of benefits, as an operational leader, an investor, and more

Innovation in the Dental Benefit Space (w/ Brent Troxell of Beta Health)

Mar 22 2023 22 mins  
In this episode of the Paytient Podcast, we sit down with Brent Troxell of Beta Health. Brent is the Sr. Vice President of Beta Health, a Denver, Colorado based company specializing in offering dental savings plans and dental insurance, among other insurance products, to individuals and employer groups.We talk about innovation in the dental benefit space and how Brent's work i

The Hidden Cost of Medical Billing (w/ Aman Magoon of Adonis)

Mar 08 2023 35 mins  
In this episode of the Paytient Podcast, we talk with Aman Magoon, co-founder and chief product officer of Adonis. Adonis is a company that's working to disentangle health care payments by using AI-driven insights to automate medical coding, billing, and reimbursement for medical providers.In this conversation, we talk about the complexities and logistical challenges of medica