Healthcare affordability has been the organizing principle of benefits strategy for decades — and that work matters. But there’s a gap no negotiated rate can close: 38% of insured employees delayed or skipped care last year because they couldn’t pay when it was needed. Not because they lacked coverage. Because they couldn’t pay. This session introduces a fundamental shift in how leading employers are tackling the high cost of healthcare. While the long game of affordability continues, more are pivoting to a different solution that makes a real difference now. The data is clear — when they do, their people are healthier and their finance teams are happier, with a proven strategy that contains costs. Join us for a conversation that will challenge the many ways we all look at, and try to solve for, affordable healthcare.
In this session you’ll learn about:
- Why affordability isn’t the finish line
- A different question that changes everything
- A proven way to contain costs – to the delight of the CFO
Meet the Presenters
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Kristin Laughlin, Chief Commercial Officer, Paytient
Kristin Laughlin is Chief Commercial Officer at Paytient. Paytient is the category-defining standard for healthcare payment innovation — purpose-built to bridge the gap between coverage and cost, give American workers the liquidity and choice to get care when they need it, while ensuring providers are paid fairly and employers reduce costs. In doing so, Paytient is helping shape more accessible, equitable, and lower-cost health plans across commercial, individual, and regulated healthcare markets
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JR Clark, Chief Strategy Officer, Paytient
J.R. Clark is the Chief Strategy Officer at Paytient Technologies, where he partners with thoughtful employers, insurers, and health systems to help give people the power to pay for care and unlock healthcare access and savings. J.R. is a former Director and Actuary of Anthem (Elevance), where he was known for his public exchange marketplace strategies and creation of alternative products in the Individual and Small Group segments. With decades of experience in fintech, healthcare, insurance, consulting, and engineering, J.R. excels at collaborating with other leaders to find simpler solutions for complex problems
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