Brian DeVore, Intel's director of healthcare ecosystem and strategy, is leaving the company to pursue a career in strategic consulting, according to The Lund Report.
Mr. DeVore has served Intel for the past 10 years. While there, he championed a new approach to employee healthcare that bypasses insurance companies and relies instead on a select number of physicians and hospitals from Presbyterian Healthcare Services, based in Albuquerque, N.M., and Kaiser Permanente, based in Oakland, Calif.
"We go direct to the provider system in a collaborative fashion," said Mr. DeVore, according to the report. "Our goal is to get the members tied into a primary care team and get out of the way, let them practice medicine. We don't have an insurance company in the mix. It frees them up to do what they need to do."
Previously, Intel tried to curb rising healthcare costs with onsite medical clinics, high deductible plans and other efforts to promote wellness, but "none of that worked," Mr. DeVore told The Lund Report in a previous interview.
"The chronic sick never go to wellness stuff. All the stuff we rolled out didn't drive costs down. It created a door to go through. When there are too many doors, they shut down. It's too confusing. It's game over and the answer is to sit still and not think about your health," he said, according to the report.
In May, Intel recognized Mr. DeVore for improving employee healthcare and helping Intel avoid spending several hundred million dollars in total costs, and establishing the company as a leader in employer-sponsored healthcare, according to the report.
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