Most cancers care firm Coloration Well being is partnering with insurer Evry Well being to boost employer well being plans with its most cancers care providers, based on a Wednesday announcement.
Evry Well being is a Texas-based insurer serving totally insured employers with 51 or extra staff. Its plans don’t have any conventional cost-sharing, together with no co-pays and no deductibles, and supply a care workforce of nurses, physicians, nutritionists and behavioral well being suppliers.
By way of the partnership with Coloration Well being, Evry Well being members can now entry Coloration’s digital most cancers clinic, which incorporates providers like screening, analysis assist, in-treatment care and medical survivorship consultants. Coloration Well being will work with the well being plan to establish members eligible for care, interact them in screening and assist them via subsequent steps via 24/7 medical assets.
“Coloration is seeking to develop and scale to achieve extra sufferers, bettering most cancers care via accessibility, comfort, and early motion,” mentioned Caroline Savello, president of Coloration Well being, in an e mail. “By way of this partnership, we’re aiming to allow members to higher perceive their most cancers danger, present easy accessibility to guideline primarily based screenings, shut care gaps, direct members to in-network websites of care, and cut back the variety of late-stage most cancers diagnoses inside the member inhabitants.”
Evry Well being selected Coloration Well being as a accomplice as a result of aligned philosophies, mentioned Dr. Glenn Hamilton, chief medical officer of the insurer.
“Coloration offers end-to-end most cancers care providers for members, from a guidelines-based screening strategy, all over remedy and survivorship,” Hamilton said. “Coloration meets members the place they’re of their well being journey, and offers buyer care and repair utilizing the identical humanitarian philosophy that guided us after we created Evry Well being in 2017.”
This partnership comes at a time when about 80% of employers checklist most cancers as a high well being price driver. About 4 in 10 adults will develop most cancers of their lifetime and an increasing number of youthful staff are getting most cancers. By working with Coloration Well being, Evry Well being is targeted on increasing entry to extra proactive most cancers care.
“We wish our members to have entry to state-of-the-art screening, counseling and assist for all facets of most cancers — from higher understanding how greatest to remain wholesome and mitigate most cancers danger components, interpretation and assist for irregular screening outcomes, energetic remedy navigation and medical providers to assist with symptom administration, and assist for most cancers survivors,” Hamilton mentioned.
Different most cancers care firms embrace Thyme Care, OncoveryCare and AccessHope.
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