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Podcast 204: What’s Really Holding Back Value-Based Care? w/ David Snow, Chairman & CEO, Cedar Gate Technologies

Apr 17, 2026

Episode Summary

Value-based care has been the goal for decades. So why does it still feel like we're moving in slow motion? The answer may come down to data, incentives, and the willingness to cross what one industry veteran calls "the rickety bridge over a chasm of death."David Snow, Chairman and CEO, Cedar Gate Technologies, an IQVIA Business joins host John Marchica to discuss why technology has finally caught up to the promise of value-based care, how prospective bundles are changing the game for providers and payers, and what it will take to move American health care past the tipping point.

Episode Notes

Value-based care has been the goal for decades. So why does it still feel like we're moving in slow motion? The answer may come down to data, incentives, and the willingness to cross what one industry veteran calls "the rickety bridge over a chasm of death."

David Snow, Chairman and CEO, Cedar Gate Technologies, an IQVIA Business joins host John Marchica to discuss why technology has finally caught up to the promise of value-based care, how prospective bundles are changing the game for providers and payers, and what it will take to move American health care past the tipping point.

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🎙 ABOUT DAVID SNOW
Mr. Snow is a nationally recognized health care executive with 40 years of experience leading Fortune 50 companies, health plans, hospitals and several innovative health care start-ups. He has been featured in numerous articles and is a frequently sought after public speaker. Mr. Snow was acknowledged as one of America’s Best CEO’s by Institutional Investor in 2008, and in 2010, he was named #27 on the Harvard Business Review list of “Best Performing CEO’s in the World”. Additionally, Mr. Snow was recognized as the regional E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year in 2006 along with being a national finalist, and was also named a regional finalist as the Cedar Gate CEO in 2021.

Mr. Snow is currently the Founder, Chairman and CEO of Cedar Gate Technologies, an IQVIA Business, a provider of technology-powered end-to-end solutions designed to enable customer success in value-based care, encompassing enterprise data management, analytics, population health, bundles and capitation payment technologies, along with other managed services.

Prior to Cedar Gate Technologies, an IQVIA Business, Mr. Snow was the Chairman & CEO of Medco Health Solutions, a Fortune 34 company. Mr. Snow took Medco public in 2003 and grew it from $30 billion to $72 billion in revenue over a 9 year period. Before Medco, Mr. Snow held positions including President and COO of Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield, EVP of Oxford Health Plans and President of HMO New Jersey for US Health care. Earlier in his career, Mr. Snow founded his first company, Managed Health care Systems (later renamed AmeriChoice), which was later sold to United Health care.

He is on the Board for Teladoc, Inc., which is publicly traded on the NYSE. Mr. Snow is also on the Boards of Premise Health and the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.

Mr. Snow holds a Bachelors Degree from Bates College, and a Masters Degree in Health care Administration from the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University. He and his family reside in Darien, Connecticut.

🎙 ABOUT HEALTH CARE ROUNDS
Health Care Rounds is a weekly podcast developed for health care leaders who are at the forefront of health care delivery and payment reform. Join Darwin Research Group founder and CEO John Marchica as he discusses the latest advancements in health care business news and policy developments.

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