As a practicing physician for decades, I welcome the opportunity to help improve the quality of life for individual patients. Now, as a physician executive for Highmark, a Pennsylvania-based health insurer, I am able to touch thousands of patients’ lives by helping affect the quality and cost of their care and creating more value for the dollars they spend on health care. Scanning today’s health care landscape though, I’m troubled that the cost of care doesn’t correlate to the quality of care patients are receiving. Consumers can be served better.
