Michael Sammons

Strategy Director

Mike brings SBS more than 30 years experience in the healthcare finance field, including extensive work in the development of procurement methods and tools. He is the innovator of a price transparency methodology known as “cost model based discount analysis”, which has been trademarked by the Blue Cross Consortium as ClaimsQuest™. ClaimsQuest users include a myriad of Fortune 100 companies like Microsoft, Nissan Motors, Marriott Hotels, and Georgia Pacific. In addition, he has extensive experience in the use of MedPar and Hospital Cost Report transaction data to score hospital performance (his work in this arena was published in 2002), with users such as WellPoint, Abbott Labs, BCBS Tennessee, and Humana.

Within the pharmaceutical (PBM) arena, he has developed two patent pending methodologies relating to pharmaceutical cost analysis and is the creator of an analysis methodology known as RxQuest. Since its inception more than 40 companies ranging from Fortune 50 to employers as small as 1,000 employees have benefited from the RxQuest technology.

Prior to joining SBS, he held senior management assignments at Milliman, General Electric Company, and CIGNA HealthCare.

Mike chaired the planning and development committee for the Emory/CIGNA Health Center (a joint venture between Delta Airlines, The Emory Clinic and CIGNA). He participates on the Board of Directors of the Georgia Chamber of Commerce Healthcare Policy Committee.