The Company That Pays Surgeons Not to Operate | with Matt Eurey
"We pay them a $2,500 flat fee for the time that they spend with the patient and make that recommendation for no surgery. If you don't, then you've wasted their time." - Matt Eurey
Most of healthcare is paid for volume, so employers end up paying for surgeries that never needed to happen. When RAND studied Carrum Health's data, about 30% of surgeries were avoided once the first step was checking whether the patient actually needed one.
Matt Eurey ran benefits at Lowe's, which spent about a billion dollars a year on healthcare. He explains how Carrum pairs bundled prices with surgeon-held…
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