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Dr. Stephen Neeleman is the CEO and founder of HealthEquity (www.healthequity.com), a personal health care financial service and health savings account company based in Draper, UT. Dr. Neeleman founded HealthEquity to repair the fractured relationship between patients and their physicians and to help more people obtain quality health insurance by re-introducing consumerism into health care.
As a board certified physician, Dr. Neeleman brings to HealthEquity passion and firsthand knowledge from the practice of medicine.
Prior to his medical training, Dr. Neeleman worked as General Manager for Morris Air (later acquired by Southwest Airlines), in Utah. Dr. Neeleman combined efficiency, technology and excellent customer service to succeed in a rocky industry. This innovative business model allowed Morris Air to rise above financially struggling competitors. Dr. Neeleman's goal is to use this model to help save another struggling industry: American health care.
In addition to his duties as CEO of HealthEquity, Dr. Neeleman is
currently a practicing general and trauma surgeon for Intermountain
Health Care at American Fork Hospital and Utah Valley Regional Medical
Center in Utah.
Dr. Neeleman was appointed by Governor Gary Herbert to serve as a board member of
HIP Utah
, Utah’s high-risk insurance pool. He also serves on the Council for
Affordable Health Insurance HSA Working Group, and on America’s Health
Insurance Plans’ HSA Leadership Council. Dr. Neeleman is a former
assistant professor of surgery at the University of Arizona and the
co-author of
The Complete HSA Guidebook—How to make health savings accounts work for you!
Dr. Neeleman completed his undergraduate degree and played football at
Utah State University. He attended medical school at the University of
Utah and completed his surgical training at the University of Arizona.
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