What happens when you stop treating patients as isolated individuals and start caring for entire families in their homes, especially those on Medicaid?

In the 91st episode of Simply Business, John Jennings sits down with Mike Meador, Chief Financial Officer of Nest Health, a home-based primary care company serving lower-income families in Louisiana and Arizona. Mike shares how Nest Health is building a whole-family, preventive-care model designed to reduce ER visits, improve outcomes, and create real value for Medicaid plans and the people they serve.

Mike unpacks the realities behind the buzzwords of “value-based care” and explains why Medicaid is both incredibly complex and full of opportunity. He walks through how Nest Health chooses where to launch next balancing payer partnerships, geography, population density, and operational constraints while resisting the temptation to “serve everybody” and instead staying laser-focused on the families they can help most.

You’ll also hear how Nest Health runs as an early-stage, venture-backed company with a leadership team spread across the country, and how Mike’s own journey from teaching math, to Medicare Advantage analytics, to in-home care ultimately led him to Nest Health’s simple but powerful idea: care for whole families, not just individuals.

If you’re interested in healthcare, leadership, or what it really takes to build a mission-driven business in a broken system, this conversation is for you.

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