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

In this episode, Michael introduces Jason Hellickson, the CEO of Regenexx, a global provider specializing in interventional orthopedics. Regenexx partners with self-funded employers to significantly reduce their orthopedic spending while providing employees a choice in care. Regenexx orthopedic procedures leverage the body's natural healing ability to repair damage to bones, muscles, cartilage, tendons, and ligaments non-surgically and with great outcomes. Jason is a long-time athlete who underwent shoulder surgery in 2008. Although the surgery was deemed “successful”, the fact that it took him 12 months to recover, 12 months to swim again, and lasting pain caused him to question whether there were better alternatives. Years later, when he received the same prognosis on his other shoulder, he insisted on an alternative. With Regenexx he was able to swim again just 6-8 weeks after the procedure. He learned that Regenexx could be offered through a self-funded health plan, so he partnered with them as an affilia