I was drawn to healthcare to help people, but I didn’t feel like I was. Across roles with various healthcare organizations, I saw firsthand how insurance does not work for primary and preventative care. Insurance is for unpredictable, infrequent events. Nobody needs a middleman when they want to talk to their primary care doctor or the added cost and barriers that come with them.

I started my career in consulting trying to solve healthcare's inefficiencies with clients at large health systems, payers, and private equity firms. More often than not, we were helping providers rapidly scale, negotiate higher reimbursement rates, and increase margins at the expense of quality. I then switched to a sales and customer success role at a value-based care software company, hoping these programs would reduce costs and improve quality. Our customers would frequently use our software to game the value-based care programs rather than improve quality of care, and the hundreds of metrics involved meant more time on admin and less on patient care. I read the book Catastrophic Care and started talking to folks in the direct care ecosystem, and I realized that direct primary care is the best solution to help clinicians provide affordable, high quality, proactive care. I went to CVS Health hoping to work on some of these direct care ideas at scale. As Direct of Pharmacy Strategy, I tried to introduce price shopping for customers, subscription-based services, and more direct care options through MinuteClinic. CVS works hard for its customers, but they are also limited by insurance companies and risk-aversion, and my ideas mostly stalled.    

I decided to go to business school to work on startup ideas to expand direct care, like an insurance plan that used cash prices rather than negotiated rates and an app that helped employees price shop for healthcare services and share in the savings. Ultimately, I decided I wanted to be closer to direct care itself and the great physicians involved in the DPC community, so I started Timshel Health.

I live in the Bay Area but will always be Midwestern at heart. I am a die-hard Chicago sports fan, avid golfer and camper, and love being outdoors with my wife Rachel, toddler Jamie, and dog Fitz.