Kelsey Millard

Chief Customer Officer, Midstream Health · 1 appearance on the record.

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Kelsey Mellard is a digital health executive who founded and served as CEO of Sitka, an asynchronous video specialist-consultation platform. Prior to founding Sitka, she led health system integration at Honor Homecare and worked at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, UnitedHealth Group, and naviHealth.

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1 supported 1 partly supported 0 contradicted 6 not checkable as stated how the 8 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

8 assertions · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 8 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved, and 6 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Kelsey argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported

Millard: 70% of non-medical home care is paid out of pocket

“So, you know, 70% private pay, and in, in that other remaining 30%, it's either long-term care insurance or Medicaid.”

Kelsey Millard Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 6:27 a16z Podcast | The Realities of Aging / When Healthcare Is Local

How they sound: speaking style how? →

238 words/min while actually speaking · 8.9 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Kelsey Millard: no usable question→answer exchanges on raw tape (a fair score needs 8+). We do not score a sample that small. Roundtable and news formats yield far fewer direct exchanges than interviews.

Measured by listening to 2,235 words across 1 episode, but every recording we have of Kelsey Millard is the aired feed, and an editor cleaned that audio before release. Some of the hesitation was cut before we ever heard it, so read these as floors: the true rates are at least this high. These are measurements of speaking style, not scores. How it's measured →

What they said8 Episodes1

Everything Kelsey Millard said on the a16z Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Millard: 57% of caregivers cannot suddenly help relatives in need

“We actually did a study on, on caregivers, and we found that 57% of them said that they would not be able to suddenly help a loved one if they needed care in their home, that they personally can't.”

Kelsey Millard Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 2:04 a16z Podcast | The Realities of Aging / When Healthcare Is Local

Assertion Supported

Millard: 70% of non-medical home care is paid out of pocket

“So, you know, 70% private pay, and in, in that other remaining 30%, it's either long-term care insurance or Medicaid.”

Kelsey Millard Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 6:27 a16z Podcast | The Realities of Aging / When Healthcare Is Local

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Millard: Middle-class Americans lack savings for private home care

“Folks who are in, in the middle income level of America probably don't have enough savings to pay for this level of care.”

Kelsey Millard Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 6:35 a16z Podcast | The Realities of Aging / When Healthcare Is Local

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Millard: 10,000 Americans turn 65 daily for next 19 years

“There's about 10,000 people turning 65 every single day for the next 19 years.”

Kelsey Millard Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 1:19 a16z Podcast | The Realities of Aging / When Healthcare Is Local

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Millard: 90% of people want to age in their own homes

“And we know that, you know, 90% of people want to age in their home.”

Kelsey Millard Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 2:32 a16z Podcast | The Realities of Aging / When Healthcare Is Local

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Millard: Honor tracks five key health indicators for in-home care

“So we actually use our technology platform to capture about five different indicators of health. And this actually really allows us to have increased stickiness with the healthcare kind of system, like the hospital and the payers and the clunkiness of it. But …”

Kelsey Millard Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 12:26 a16z Podcast | The Realities of Aging / When Healthcare Is Local

Assertion Partly supported

Millard: About 20% of Medicare beneficiaries are hospitalized annually

“About one in five Medicare beneficiaries are hospitalized annually.”

Kelsey Millard Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 19:44 a16z Podcast | The Realities of Aging / When Healthcare Is Local

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Millard: 43% of hospitalized Medicare beneficiaries enter post-acute care

“Most of the time, if a Medicare beneficiary is in a hospital, they're going to, about 43% of the time, they're going to go to some sort of care provider after that hospital stay.”

Kelsey Millard Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 20:23 a16z Podcast | The Realities of Aging / When Healthcare Is Local

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
a16z Podcast \| The Realities of Aging / When Healthcare Is Local	Jan 2, 2019	10m

Kelsey Millard

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