The model
Structure, stated plainly — including what is still undecided.
Interdependent Health is an emerging enterprise. This page describes the intended design, the principles that constrain it, and the questions we are actively working through.
Design principles
Constraints we intend to hold.
- Members, not outside shareholders, should govern over time
- Surplus is reinvested in care, cost relief, and member value
- Prices and quality are disclosed to the people affected by them
- Clinicians are partners in design, not vendors to be squeezed
- Growth follows proof, market by market
- No claim is made that cannot be evidenced
Development path
Three stages.
Stage one
Purchasing and navigation
- Founding employers
- Direct contracts
- Navigation
- Measurement
Stage two
Care partnerships
- Primary care
- Shared savings
- Member services
Stage three
Member ownership at scale
- Member governance
- Broader capability
- New markets
Open questions
Being worked through now.
Legal entity
Cooperative, benefit corporation, or a hybrid structure — the answer must fit multi-state healthcare regulation.
Capitalization
How founding capital is raised without compromising member control.
Membership economics
What membership costs, what it includes, and how ownership accrues.
Risk
Whether and when the enterprise takes on insurance risk, and under what license.
Governance
How member voice is structured alongside employer and clinician participation.
Interdependent Health is not an insurance company, a health plan, or a government program, and is not offering coverage or securities.
Questions
Frequently asked
What comes next
Have a sharper question than these?
We'd rather hear the hard version early. Bring it to us.