“It was taken away, but we’re taking it back.”

In this episode of The Leadership Lab podcast, Asbel Montes sits down with Dr. Rebekah Gee, OBGYN, former Louisiana Secretary of Health, and Founder and CEO of Nest Health, to explore what happens when physicians stop giving their voice away and start leading the transformation of American healthcare.

Dr. Gee has led at every level of the system: at the bedside, in state government, and now as a value-based care entrepreneur delivering whole-family primary care in the home. She shares why half of America’s children are on Medicaid yet only 25% of Medicaid patients receive the recommended primary care, what it takes to lead with grace when politics and patient care collide, and why every physician needs to understand healthcare economics.

You’ll Learn:

✅ How Nest Health brings the fullness of primary care into the home for the whole family, now serving 50,000 lives across Louisiana and Arizona

✅ What value-based care really means: getting paid for outcomes, not for doing more

✅ How the Rural Health Transformation Program can marry care teams, technology, and workforce investment in communities that need care, not another app

✅ The glass ceiling is real: only 1.5% of venture funding goes to female-founded companies

✅ Why physicians must engage in policy, because wherever there is money, there is politics

✅ Where AI belongs in healthcare: let AI handle everything that doesn’t require person-to-person care, and let people take care of people

✅ What keeps Dr. Gee up at night: Medicaid work requirements, the rising cost of care, and who really benefits from the AI revolution

This conversation blends hard truths with hope, challenging physicians, policymakers, and healthcare executives to step beyond traditional roles, lead with grace, and keep the patient at the center of every decision.

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About Dr. Rebekah Gee:

Dr. Rebekah Gee is a practicing OBGYN who served as Louisiana Secretary of Health from 2016 to 2020, where she led the state’s Medicaid expansion and a first-in-the-nation subscription model for hepatitis C treatment. She went on to serve as CEO of LSU Health Care Services and is now the Founder and CEO of Nest Health, the first company in the U.S. to deliver the fullness of primary care to children and their families in the home, in partnership with Medicaid managed care. She is a member of the National Academy of Medicine.

Links:

Asbel Montes LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/asbel-montes-31027634

Asbel Montes Book (In Plain Sight): https://asbelmontes.com/store/

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Dr. Rebekah Gee LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebekahgeemd/

Nest Health Website – https://www.nesthealth.com/

Solutions Group Services LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/company/solutionsgroupservices

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