Topics:

• Healthcare Financial Wellness
• Navigation
• Quality
• Transparency
• Steerage 
• Narrow Network
• Smart Match
• Health Savings Account

In this episode, Michael introduces you to David Vivero, the Co-founder and CEO of Amino Health. Join us as we learn about Amino Health, a health care financial wellness platform that integrates with an employer’s existing health care benefits to enable employees to find, book and pay for high-quality care. 

Here’s a glance at what we discuss in this episode:

• How David Vivero’s diverse experience in real estate, venture capitalism and working with disruptive startups led him to launch Amino Health
• How David’s own health care experience inspired him to change the status quo by providing transparency, empathy, and convenience in health care
• Why price transparency alone isn’t enough to fix our broken health care system 
• The definition of health care financial wellness and why it is important 
• One of the biggest financial strains on individuals is their health insurance and unexpected out of pocket costs
• The booking and navigation components of Amino Health and the strategies they deploy to engage consumers to utilize their tool
• How Amino Health is helping consumers succeed in searching for providers, booking appointments and paying for health care
• How Amino Health’s centralized data allows individuals to identify high quality and low-cost providers and facilities 
• Amino Health encourages users to choose the Smart Match designation to steer individuals to high-quality low-cost providers and facilitates
• The sources of Amino’s data for cost and quality information 
• How Amino Health has the ability to connect employees with point solutions and other benefit programs offered by their employer
• How an employer can use incentives to drive utilization of smart match providers
• How employers should think of health savings account and how they can leverage Amino Health’s HSA offering within their financial wellness platform
• Why it’s important to ask what the ROI of your health savings account is
• How Amino’s tool is connected in real-time to their Health Savings Account and can show the financial impact of selecting one provider vs. another provider
• The average engagement and utilization of Amino’s clients 
• Amino’s NPS Score 
• Consumers do not want to receive data they want to receive an experience
• To learn more, visit https://partners.amino.com/home