Relentless Health Value

My guest in this health care podcast is Darrell Moon, who is the CEO over at Orriant. I was super intrigued by some of the work that Darrell and his team are doing regarding high-cost claimants. Said a different and probably better way, certain people in need of care were identified because they were costing so much. Year after year after year, these individuals—I call them hyper-users during this episode, but it’s possible I made that term up myself—these hyper-users were getting all kinds of expensive health care, while at the same time, they were not getting any better. So, Darrell and his team realized that something was afoot here, and it turned out to be a combination of maybe loneliness, maybe low self-esteem and low self-efficacy. And no matter how many times you go to the cardiologist or the rheumatologist or the pulmonologist, none of those things will be cured. In fact, when someone’s identity becomes their myriad of health issues, they have a sort of perverse incentive, if you think about it, not