Founding Cohort · 100 seats · $1,495
Enrollment in the Certified Professional in Model Optimal Care (CP-MOC) program opens August 1, 2026. The first 100 enrollees pay half. The discount code below is only valid for 100 uses.
Discount Code: FOUNDER
088of 100
Closes October 9, 2026, or when seats are gone — whichever comes first.
Companion text Model Optimal Care by Jude Odu shipped to you free when you enroll.
Self-insured employers waste 25 to 30 cents of every healthcare dollar. Your plan is not an exception. CP-MOC teaches you where that money goes and how to get it back, using the framework documented in Model Optimal Care.
Included
Curriculum
Six sequential courses. Approximately 100 hours of curriculum across six domains, each building on the last.
Where the 25 to 30 cents of every wasted dollar spend actually goes, and the five-principle Model Optimal Care framework, Transparency, Accountability, Integration, Engagement, and Technology Enablement, that structures every subsequent course.
Core Competency: Waste Identification & Framework Application
The lowest-risk, highest-return levers: educating members, redirecting non-emergent ER visits, and designing benefits that steer toward high-value providers, before buying yet another tool.
Core Competency: Member Engagement & Non-Clinical Cost Reduction
Using claims and clinical data to prioritize interventions, measure outcomes, and hold vendors accountable to defined performance targets.
Core Competency: Data-Driven FIDUCIARY Oversight
Identifying overpayments, duplicate claims, and coding errors in near real time, and building a payment-integrity process that recovers dollars already lost.
Core Competency: Claims Integrity & Audit PracticeFiduciary PBM contracting, formulary design, transparency-tool deployment, and a pragmatic framework for where AI earns its keep.
Core Competency: Pharmacy optimization & Digital Strategy
Turning ERISA fiduciary duty and CAA compliance into a cost-containment advantage, and the governance practices plan sponsors must own.
Core Competency: Governance, Compliance & Fiduciary LeadershipEmployer Reimbursement
IRS Section 127 lets a company cover up to $5,250 per employee per year in continuing education, tax-free to you and deductible for them. At $1,495, the CP-MOC fee sits well inside that ceiling.
Use the form on the right to request your reimbursement packet, which includes the course outline, the syllabus, and an invoice you can hand to HR. Most approvals close within two weeks.
CP-MOC Reimbursement Packet Request
IRS Section 127
The Terms
$1,495
Self-paced, must be completed within 12 months
Full refund within 14 days as long as no course has been started
Founders pricing is $1,495. Standard pricing is $2,995. The founders rate closes when 100 seats fill or on October 9, 2026, whichever comes first. It does not come back.
Questions
The comprehensive exam is 105 questions with a 3-hour limit. You need 75% to pass. It is delivered entirely online.
If you do not pass on your first try, up to three retakes are included with your enrollment.
Roughly 100 hours across six sequential courses, plus the exam. You have 12 months from enrollment to complete the program and sit for the exam.
Most plans qualify under IRS Section 127, which lets an employer cover up to $5,250 per employee per year tax-free. Use the reimbursement packet request above to get the course outline, syllabus, and an invoice template for HR.
Full refund within 14 days of enrollment, provided you have not started any course.
The founders rate ($1,495) closes when 100 seats fill or on October 9, 2026, whichever comes first. This timeline will not be extended. After that, enrollment continues at the standard $2,995 rate.
Audience
Closes October 9, 2026, or when seats are gone.
Book reviews
This is a rare healthcare book that respects the reader’s intelligence and time. No vendor pitches. No inflated ROI claims. Just field-tested strategies backed by data and common sense. If you’re a plan sponsor and you are not reading this book, you are leaving money on the table.
Al Lewis
CEO, Quizzify; Author, Why Nobody Believes the Numbers and Surviving Workplace Wellness
Model Optimal Care is the resource our industry needs right now. For professionals new to self-funding, it provides a clear, data-driven foundation. For those of us who have spent decades in this space, it delivers current methods, innovations, and practical arguments that sharpen how we serve the self-funded community.
Ernie Clevenger
President & Publisher, MyHealthGuide, LLC; Retired President & Co-Founder, CareHere, LLC; Past President, Health Care Administrators Association (HCAA); Past Chairman & President, Self-Insurance Institute of America (SIIA)
Self-insured employers have shouldered the full burden of rising healthcare costs while being systematically shielded from their own data. Jude Odu lays out a clear, practical pathway to reclaim that data, sharpen your negotiating position, and finally take control of what you pay for your employees’ care.
Lawrence Lubbers, MD
Board Certified Orthopaedic Surgeon, Past President, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors, Upper Arlington Surgery Center; Senior Founding Partner, Hand and Microsurgery Associates and Past President of the Columbus Orthopaedic Society
The Author
Founder, Health Cost IQ · Author, Model Optimal Care
Jude Odu is the founder of Health Cost IQ, a healthcare analytics company, and author of the bestselling book Model Optimal Care: End U.S. Healthcare Waste, One Health Plan at a Time.
A healthcare technology veteran with more than 25 years of experience, he has worked across every major sector of the U.S. healthcare system, from commercial payers to acute-care hospitals to enterprise software and academia.
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