During National Nurses Month, there is a tendency to celebrate nurses in broad and deserved terms: compassion, resilience, dedication, sacrifice. All of that is true. But in today’s healthcare environment, especially in Medicaid, it is also incomplete.

In Medicaid, a small group of members accounts for a disproportionate share of spending — and exposes the limits of how care is delivered today. Roughly 5% of the population drives nearly half of all Medicaid spending. These are the members most likely to cycle through emergency departments, experience repeated hospitalizations, and struggle with unmanaged chronic and behavioral health conditions.

Scott Schnell, Cofounder and CEO, built  MedZed by reaching the people healthcare can’t — and staying long enough to change outcomes. He leads a team of compassionate, hardworking caregivers who help our country’s most vulnerable Medicaid patients.