About the Authors

Steve Zaleznick

Steve Zaleznick is Executive Director for Consumer Strategy and Development for HealthPocket. He has several decades of experience developing and leading highly regarded programs for consumers of health care and financial services. Key areas of focus for Mr. Zaleznick include Medicare, health insurance decision support tools and health insurance exchanges.

Mr. Zaleznick lives in Washington, DC and holds a degree in Economics from Brown University and a law degree from Georgetown University.

Kev Coleman

Kev Coleman is the Head of Research & Data where he is the author of the HealthPocket InfoStat Reports. Mr. Coleman performs research across the healthcare market, leveraging emerging sources of data from government, nonprofit, and private sectors. Key areas of study for Mr. Coleman include healthcare consumerism and issues associated with the implementation of the Affordable Care Act.

Mr. Coleman lives in New England and holds degrees from Eastern Nazarene College, Yale University, and Duke University. His professional career includes over a decade of executive work in consumer-facing healthcare and financial technology.

Peter Barth

Peter Barth is the Head of Consumer Advocacy for HealthPocket. He has over thirty years of experience in program management and the engineering of health, education, and geophysical information services. For several years he served as adjunct professor for the University of San Francisco, with focus areas in management information systems and customer-centric approaches to systems analysis and design.

Peter lives in Northern California and holds degrees in physics from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Oneonta and the University of Vermont, where he specialized in stochastic modeling of neural networks.

HealthPocket's InfoStat Reports provide analyses and interpretation of the healthcare market as well as emerging issues related to the implementation of the Affordable Care Act.

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