Blake sits down with Ahmed Marmoush, CEO and co-founder of Handl Health, fresh off their Series A funding, and this one covers the full arc of where employer-sponsored insurance is heading.
Ahmed’s path is unlike any guest we’ve seen on Claims Denied: From a clinical pharmacist in New Zealand’s single-payer system, to a consultant alongside the country’s former Director General of Health, to an $800 bill for a routine physical in LA that turned into a company. (They offered him 50% off if he paid within a few days. He compared it to haggling in an Egyptian street market. He’s not wrong.)
They get into why cost shifting is dead, how variable copay plans really work, what’s inside Handl’s value index, and why Ahmed is betting on being the enablement layer between brokers and carriers instead of building yet another health plan.
If you touch benefits strategy, brokerage, or health plan ops, this one’s worth the commute.
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