The Importance of Antitrust in Health Care

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There's huge opportunity for entrepreneurs, as I said, to build services that take aim at a particular patient population. The problem is that we're still largely in a fee for service system and those systems can not only become bigger and bigger but they can also stymie competition on the value based care side. We need more antitrust and anti competitive policy scrutiny to the health care industry.

Founded in 2014, Aledade works with over 11,000 physicians across 40 States accounting for 1.7 million patients under management in Medicare, Medicare Advantage, commercial and Medicaid contracts.

Farzad Mostashari has spent his career in health care policy and Health Information Technology.

Farzad previously served as the National Coordinator for Health IT in the Department of Health and Human Services. Prior to his work at the Office of the National Coordinator, he founded the NYC Primary Care Information project, which equipped physicians and underserved communities with electronic health records. He completed medical school at the Yale School of Medicine and a Master’s degree in Population Health from Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

In this episode we talk about Farzad’s journey to healthcare, how he started Aledade, the importance of independent physicians in value-based care, how Aledade scaled as a profitable health tech company, and advice he has for founders.