Retirement Health Planning: How to Reduce Costs and Extend Your Health Span

🙌 On this episode of The Get Ready Money Podcast, I spoke with Xavier Serrano, Founder and CEO of Marqi Medical about improving our health span so we can more fully enjoy our golden years.

💡 Key Takeaways:

🔹 Asking the right questions is the first step to better long-term health outcomes
🔹 Small actions now can lead to major payoffs later
🔹 Healthcare is the number one expense in retirement.
🔹 Education and lifestyle choices will help you stay healthy
🔹 Maintaining your health helps reduce long-term medical costs
🔹 Health insurance and health care costs are different; health insurance is a mechanism to pay for health care.

Connect with Xavier Serrano:

• LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/xavierserrano/ 
• Marqui Medical Website: https://www.marqimedical.com
• Marqui Medical LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/marqimedical 

Resources mentioned:

• Health Quiz (here)
• My Fitness Pal App (here)

Bio: 

Xavier Serrano is the Founder & CEO of Marqi Medical, a precision-health company developing one of the first clinically validated AI diagnostic reasoning engines for preventive and complex care. Xavier’s work sits at the intersection of advanced diagnostics, clinical data science, and multi-modal AI, with the mission of reducing misdiagnosis, improving early disease detection, and lowering avoidable healthcare costs.

Through Marqi Medical, Xavier is building a new model of proactive, data-driven healthcare—one that synthesizes labs, imaging, genomics, and wearable data into clear, actionable insights for patients, physicians, and payer systems. His long-term vision is to create the diagnostic operating system for global healthcare, helping individuals extend healthspan while enabling systems-level cost efficiency.