Michael Botta is the Co-Founder of Sesame, a direct-to-patient healthcare company. He is a health policy expert, author, and businessman. Michael holds a PhD in Health Policy from Harvard University and is a regular guest lecturer at Harvard Medical School and the Kennedy School of Government. Prior to co-founding Sesame, Michael spent 5 years at McKinsey & Co. working closely with healthcare industry clients, designing new value-based care models, building integrated health systems, and launching new health financing programs in the US and abroad. Michael is an author of numerous peer reviewed articles and has served as a reviewer for various publications, including the Journal of the American Medical Association, the Journal of Health Economics, the British Medical Journal, and others. Earlier in his career, he served in the Obama Administration’s White House Office of Management and Budget during the drafting of the Affordable Care Act, and was an advisor to the State of Massachusetts during the creation of their health policy commission.
Telemedicine will not revolutionize health care on its own, but the experience of millions of Americans during the pandemic assures us that it will become a permanent fixture of the health care ecosystem - one likely to account for a growing share of revenue in our $4 trillion health care economy.