Curative

Oh, yeah, yeah.

The com- the company is Curative, and it's one of a now, uh, you know, growing number of, of companies looking to jump in and improve, uh, our broken health insurance system, of which there's a lot of opportunity around.

And I hope that m- some of these companies are successful in shaking up the system, um, and being better for patients and for smaller clinics or the providers that work in them.

And I think y- And we talked about this last episode, Parker.

It's all...

Again, there's always when you've g- have an insurance company that gives reasonable rates, uh, you always want to entertain that.

And the, again, I like this, the Curative group because it's $0 copay, $0 deductible, and having patients that can come in and see you for free is win-win if you can, can get fair reimbursement for that.

Yeah.

Hi, it's Jack.

On today's show, we speak with Tammy Wilson-Saranna, CFO of Curative.

Health insurance has spent years asking people to make more cost-conscious decisions about their care.

But what happens when the cost itself becomes one of the reasons people avoid care? That question sits beneath much of our conversation today with Tammy Wilson-Saranna.

Curative is making a very different bet.

Zero deductibles, zero co-pays, and fewer financial reasons for members to postpone seeing a doctor or filling a prescription.

Of course, removing those barriers doesn't remove the economics.

Hello.

And just to throw it out there early, I'm going to name this firm.

It's a company called Curative, C-U-R-A-T-I-V-E, Curative.

So people can Google it.

It's a venture capital backed startup that they have engaging YouTube introduction marketing video with their story.

And so it did kind of make me feel more hopeful.

And also it just felt kind of interesting to go down this process, you know, regardless of if it ends up that we come to turn, come to rates that are reasonable.

And I'll, so I'll say that like after that email and after I figured out it was AI, I did call them out on being, on not disclosing that they were AI and that that didn't, California has rules about use of AI in healthcare and other tricky things and I think being wary of changing AI legal landscapes and other pieces and I'm sure the people at Curative have their legal team well I shouldn't say I'm sure but hopefully they're on top of Are there laws around not immediately disclosing you're negotiating with an agent in different states? I'll leave that to these individual companies to figure that out.

But it did make me feel better about then.