Financial Wellness & Digital Health

On this week's program, hosts Ron Bachman and Doug Field welcome two guests to the program to cover financial wellness, digital health tools and more. In the show's opening 10 minutes, the hosts discuss highlights of the upcoming Private Exchange FORUM conference program.

The first guest is Denise Winston, founder of Money Starts Here, a financial education company. Most of us are no strangers to financial worries, especially in today’s economy. In the workplace, however, there’s a growing concern that needs addressing: the impact of financially stressed employees on their employers. The harsh reality is that the majority of working Americans are already living paycheck to paycheck, and it’s about to get worse. Unfortunately, due to the ACA, many employers have seen huge increases in their health care premiums and have no other option except to shift more of those health care costs onto their already financially stressed employees. In this segment, Denise and the hosts will take a look at what monetary worries will do to an employee’s quality of life -- and how that impacts a company’s bottom line.

The second guest is Paul Ketchel, CEO of MDsave. As an ever-growing number of patient-consumers begin to feel the impact of their high-deductible plans, January is an appropriate time to take a fresh look at new and emerging tools and solutions that address the "consumerization" of health care. In this conversation with Paul Ketchel, the CEO of digital health care startup MDsave, we will take a look at what solutions are offered directly to consumers today, through their current insurance carriers and through their employers. It is well understood that the cost burden of health care is shifting to the consumer. What is not understood are the current options for mitigating that cost burden without compromising on care.