PYMNTS.com July 5, 2022

There are lots of stories of medical school students and grads who chose to apply their medical knowledge to business fields. It’s rare — only about 10% do this — but those handful blaze trails of innovation that’s made managing runaway healthcare costs easier for all.

One such story is Alberto Casellas, EVP and CEO of health and wellness at Synchrony. In a conversation with PYMNTS’ Karen Webster, Casellas spoke of how his grandfather, a doctor, inspired him to go the same route. This ultimately led the executive to disrupt healthcare payments.

“During my junior year, I chose to stick to my major, which was in a liberal arts school at Yale, and economics,” he said. “After doing all that...

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