Healthcare Payments Prepare For Post-Pandemic Overhaul

The pandemic has highlighted the need to radically change B2B payments from insurance companies to providers — along with pretty much everything else in U.S. healthcare, David Goldhill, founder and CEO of medical services platform Sesame, told Karen Webster.

“What is interesting about [the COVID era] is just how much attention is being paid to public health measures, questions of access, questions of equity that I think will be with us for quite a while,” Goldhill said.

When it comes to rebuilding the 21st century healthcare system, Goldhill said the cost of healthcare, and the use of insurance and consumer out-of-pocket payments to pay for it will be at the center of any effort.

“If we want to...