Chris is dedicated to improving healthcare revenue cycle and patient access to care using machine learning, automation, and user-centered design.
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This episode is hosted by Day Zero advisory council member Julie Yoo. Chris and Julie discuss the founding and purpose of Turquoise Health, the decision to seek venture capital funding, recruiting challenges, advice for early-stage founders, and so much more. For More Info about Day Zero Visit: https://www.thinkmedium.com/programs/day-zero Chris leads Turquoise Health, a startup focused on simplifying healthcare reimbursement through price transparency. His background spans 10+ years modelling hospital managed care contracts at Cloudmed as a Product Manager and most recently heading machine learning projects for hospital payment integrity at Arcosta. Turquoise Health builds software products for price transparency compliance, managed care benchmarking and contract negotiation to providers, payers and employers. Since launching in 2020, Turquoise has aggregated 3,300+ hospitals’ price transparency disclosure data in a central repository and made this new data actionable to industry for the first time in its Hospital Rates Database. The startup has recently been...
We're committed to a vision of the new ‘pre-revenue cycle’ where patients and payers know the costs upfront and providers become accustomed to real-time payment for shoppable services.
This is just the beginning of making hospital billing more clear and patient-friendly. Using both public price rates data and Turquoise participating provider data, we are showing there is a market for transparency in healthcare. We help put negotiating power where it belongs — in the hands of the consumer.