People Moves: Higginbotham Hires Ritter as Medical Director for Employee Benefits

Higginbotham has hired Samuel Isaac Ritter, M.D., as medical director for employee benefits, adding a client-facing physician resource within its self-funded advisory work.

As more employers move into self-funded plans, the questions landing on brokers are increasingly clinical: complex, high-cost claims, emerging therapies and shifting standards of care. Higginbotham responded by actively recruiting Dr. Ritter to work alongside its self-funded and population health teams, bringing a practicing physician’s perspective into those decisions.

Ritter is an award-winning emergency physician at Baylor University Medical Center (Baylor Scott & White Health). He also brings experience advising large health systems at McKinsey & Company and leadership and team-building experience at health and longevity startup Elysium.

He will serve as a client-facing physician resource for self-funded employers and Higginbotham teams, providing clinical context as employers evaluate emerging treatments and changing standards of care. In addition to supporting clients directly, Ritter will help build out Higginbotham’s medical advisory bench as this area grows.