Founders Everywhere: Beth Ann Lopez
Beth Ann Lopez is the founder & CEO of Outfox Health, a healthtech that gives employees instant answers on coverage, costs, and high-value providers, driving measurable savings in their network.
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Outfox Health is the answer engine for health benefits. It’s designed to tackle two of the toughest questions in healthcare: What’s covered? and Where should I go? Every year, hundreds of billions of dollars are wasted on overpriced or low-value care because patients and employers lack clear answers. A knee replacement surgery, for example, can cost anywhere from $3,000 to $180,000 in the same city. The kicker is that oftentimes the lower-cost hospitals have higher quality outcomes. Outfox empowers employers and health plans to cut through that confusion, delivering measurable savings by guiding members to high-value care within their existing networks.
Founder and CEO Beth Ann Lopez has spent her career improving access and affordability in healthcare. She served in the Peace Corps in rural Cambodia, earned a Master of Public Health from Harvard, and previously founded Docosan, a Vietnam-based digital health marketplace that helped over 5 million people find care before its acquisition. Beth Ann’s personal mission is to make healthcare understandable and transparent for all Americans. At Outfox Health, she’s making healthcare costs and options easy to understand, giving patients and employers answers as quick as a fox!
Why Outfox Health and why now?
When generative AI started taking off, I realized it was now possible to deliver a personalized, 24/7 on‑demand healthcare concierge in every person’s pocket. It could be available in any language to help people understand their care options. At the same time, new U.S. price transparency laws exposed how broken healthcare pricing is. Most people still don’t know how much healthcare costs until they get the bill. So Outfox combines the two: AI‑powered care navigation and true price transparency to make healthcare understandable, predictable, and affordable.
What’s Outfox Health’s North Star?
Our North Star metric is cost savings for both patients and employers, who are the ones ultimately paying for healthcare. In a country where medical debt is one of the leading causes of bankruptcy, we want to ensure people can get quality care without financial fear. Access to healthcare shouldn’t depend on luck, income, or zip code.
What sets Outfox Health apart?
Many other platforms only show general or estimated prices. We go deep into the data to extract each employer’s actual contracted rates directly from the newly public transparency files, which are massive and difficult to process. We analyze those millions of data points ourselves rather than relying on generic APIs.
That means employees see the real price negotiated for them (not an average) and employers can highlight direct clinics or preferred facilities that offer better care at a lower cost. Ultimately, by fixing the price knowledge gap, we’re also improving access. When care becomes predictable and affordable, people are less afraid to seek it out.
Tell us about a recent milestone that Outfox Health crushed.
A big milestone was our partnership with Blackwell Captive Solutions, a stop‑loss and insurance company that integrated Outfox into its group captive health plans. That partnership lets us reach many more employers without needing a massive direct sales force. We’re also excited to onboard new customers that go live early this year.
How has your background influenced you as a founder?
I was the first in my family to go to college. Growing up, I saw how tough it was for my parents to fight for basic benefits like health insurance. That experience cemented my motivation to build for the 99%.
My path in healthcare took shape when I joined the Peace Corps in rural Cambodia. I was stationed at a clinic that was supposed to be open 24/7 but could only afford to open for two hours a day. Doctors earned $150 a month and would refer patients privately to make ends meet. It was heartbreaking to see people go without care because of system failures, not lack of medicine or will. That experience made me obsessed with health systems, how structure and policy influence people’s health, and ultimately pushed me into public health and entrepreneurship.
Fun Fact:
While I was in the Peace Corps in Cambodia, I learned to speak some Khmer and I still keep close ties with my former host family. Southeast Asia shaped a huge part of who I am.
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