Quantum Well being, a healthcare navigation and care coordination firm, is partnering with fertility firm Progyny Well being to deliver a family-building advantages providing to employers, the businesses introduced Thursday.
Dublin, Ohio-based Quantum Well being works with self-insured employers to assist their workers perceive and navigate their medical insurance advantages. New York Metropolis-based Progyny offers family-building help via its community of suppliers, concierge affected person assist and pharmacy companies. Its assist is completely different relying on the consumer, mentioned Dr. Janet Choi, chief medical officer of Progyny. It’d imply egg freezing for many who aren’t able to have a household, or understanding underlying medical situations like diabetes as a way to have a wholesome being pregnant.
Progyny is now a “most well-liked associate” on Quantum’s Complete Care Options platform, which is a gaggle of advantages options that Quantum’s greater than 500 employer purchasers can select to work with. These options embody Headspace Well being for psychological well being, Cariloop for caregiving assist and Hinge Well being for musculoskeletal assist. Progyny is the primary answer for household constructing on the platform, and employers can elect to work with the corporate via “an accelerated contracting and implementation course of,” mentioned Shannon Skaggs, president of Quantum Well being, in an e-mail.
As well as, Progyny shall be built-in into Quantum’s navigation and engagement platform, and members in want of household constructing assist shall be directed to Progyny’s companies by Quantum’s care coordinators.
Skaggs added that Progyny was chosen as a associate after an in depth assessment of firms, and that Quantum and the household constructing answer already share a number of purchasers, together with two Fortune 100 employers. He didn’t title these purchasers.
“We’re in fixed communication with our purchasers relating to the profit challenges, and having a complete household constructing providing has turn out to be a key precedence,” Skaggs mentioned. “However employers additionally need that answer to be a part of their bigger navigation platform. This started our market analysis, which requires us to take a look at various elements when deciding on a Most popular Associate … Deep product integration, shared product roadmaps and member expertise.”
The businesses shall be sharing income made via the partnership, Skaggs mentioned.
The partnership comes at a time when about one in 5 girls battle with getting pregnant after a 12 months of making an attempt, based on the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention. About 43% of employers and 28% of workers say their firm doesn’t present household constructing help, corresponding to for fertility or adoption. In working with Quantum Well being, Progyny goals to succeed in extra sufferers in want of household constructing assist, Choi mentioned.
“Infertility is a fancy medical situation the place the ‘one-size-fits-all’ method prohibits a number of sufferers from receiving the suitable care the primary time,” Choi acknowledged. “Via this partnership with Quantum Well being, we hope to broaden entry to supported, inclusive, and complete fertility and household constructing care so individuals can obtain their dream of parenthood.”
Different firms offering fertility and household constructing assist companies embody Carrot Fertility, Maven Clinic and Kindbody.
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