What if your doctor made more money when you got better… instead of when you came back?
That sounds like how healthcare should already work.
(Spoiler. It isn’t.)
This week on The Liquid Lunch Project, Jon Read, co-founder of Confidant Health, is on the show to talk about why our healthcare system often rewards volume instead of results.
More appointments. More services. More billing.
Actually getting better? That’s not always what gets rewarded.
But Jon thinks behavioral health is ripe for a different model, and he’s building around it.
🍸 We Get Into:
Why more healthcare doesn’t always mean better healthcare
How value-based care changes what providers actually get rewarded for
Why measuring patient progress matters in behavioral health
How automation can cut down the paperwork providers never wanted to do in the first place
Where AI can help without trying to play doctor
Why telehealth can reach people who might otherwise struggle to get care
What Jon learned after building and selling his first healthcare company
Why watching the next owners scale it changed the way he thinks about growth
And that last one is worth hearing even if healthcare isn’t your thing.
Jon watched a company he built grow far beyond where he had taken it, and it forced him to rethink how big he was willing to think in the first place.
So this isn’t just a healthcare conversation.
It’s about incentives, technology, growth, and what happens when the system rewards the wrong behavior.
Healthcare just happens to be a very expensive example.
If you’ve ever wondered why healthcare seems better at billing than fixing, this episode will make a lot of things click.
*- Matt & Luigi *🍻
👤 About Jon:
Jon Read is the co-founder of Confidant Health, a behavioral health company focused on measurement-based care, telehealth, and value-based healthcare. He previously founded Keet Health, which gave him a front-row seat to how data and better incentives can change patient care.
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