Reconstructing Healthcare: Innovative Solutions For Employers To Lower Their Healthcare Costs

In this episode, Michael introduces Jim Wachtel, the Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Renalogic. Renalogic is dedicated to helping employers manage kidney disease in their employee population and reducing dialysis costs with preventive programs and pricing solutions.  Jim was inspired to enter the healthcare industry because he recognized the cultural issues around healthcare. He wanted to support a company that not only helps make treatment accessible to those who need it but also takes measures to prevent chronic illness in the first place.  With this mission in mind, Jim found Renalogic. Renalogic works to reduce the costs associated with dialysis — a treatment for End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) — and offers a Kidney Dialysis Avoidance Program for at-risk members. Kidney disease is known as “the silent killer” for a reason: It is estimated that 40% of people with kidney disease don’t know it. And if it progresses from Stage 5 to ESRD and dialysis begins, treatment is expensive