Sidecar Health CEO Patrick Quigley: Fixing Health Insurance by Rewiring the Incentives
About this episode
Patrick Quigley discusses how Sidecar Health is redesigning health insurance to enhance transparency and consumer agency.
What happens when a health plan stops trying to optimize a legacy system and instead rebuilds the model itself? In this episode of Bright Spots in Healthcare, Eric Glazer sits down with Patrick Quigley, CEO and co-founder of Sidecar Health, for a candid conversation about redesigning health insurance around transparency, incentives, and consumer agency. Rather than focusing on incremental reform, this discussion explores what changes when members can see prices before they receive care, when benefits are structured around clear dollar amounts instead of opaque contracts, and when savings can be shared directly with the individual making the decision. Patrick walks through why traditional insurance design obscures cost and distorts behavior, how employers are responding to rising spend and limited visibility, and what it takes operationally to challenge long standing assumptions about how plans should work. Using examples from employer adoption, member purchasing behavior, and provider pricing dynamics, the conversation surfaces how transparency becomes more than a feature. It becomes the foundation for accountability and market discipline. This episode is designed for health plan…
People in this episode
Host: Eric Glazer
Guest: Patrick Quigley
Topics covered
- health insurance
- transparency
- consumer agency
- incentives
- cost structure
Keywords
- health plan
- employers
- member behavior
- provider pricing
Mentioned in this episode
Products: Sidecar Health
Books & works: Bright Spots in Healthcare
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