Mike Patton is a highly sought-after benefits advisor with a passion to fix the rampant healthcare inflation problem. He began his career as a college football coach at Colorado State and had been working in healthcare since 2012. Mike’s sharp intellect and strategic thinking have made him one of the leading minds in employee benefits and he frequently speaks on the subject at industry events.

Mike is a healthcare visionary. He became passionate about healthcare and the inflation involved when a patient came into the doctor’s office he was working at with a nearly $600,000 pacemaker. This leads him to benefits consulting. He has consulted on hundreds of self-funded cases and is an industry leader in self-funding, direct agreements with providers and facilities, as well as integrating these platforms into high performance health plans.