Quantum Well being, a healthcare navigation and care coordination firm, is partnering with fertility firm Progyny Well being to carry 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 staff perceive and navigate their medical insurance advantages. New York Metropolis-based Progyny offers family-building help by its community of suppliers, concierge affected person assist and pharmacy companies. Its assist is totally different relying on the consumer, mentioned Dr. Janet Choi, chief medical officer of Progyny. It would imply egg freezing for individuals who aren’t able to have a household, or understanding underlying medical situations like diabetes to be able to have a wholesome being pregnant.
Progyny is now a “most well-liked accomplice” on Quantum’s Complete Care Options platform, which is a gaggle of advantages options that Quantum’s greater than 500 employer shoppers can select to work with. These options embrace Headspace Well being for psychological well being, Cariloop for caregiving assist and Hinge Well being for musculoskeletal assist. Progyny is the primary resolution for household constructing on the platform, and employers can elect to work with the corporate by “an accelerated contracting and implementation course of,” mentioned Shannon Skaggs, president of Quantum Well being, in an e-mail.
As well as, Progyny will probably be built-in into Quantum’s navigation and engagement platform, and members in want of household constructing assist will probably be directed to Progyny’s companies by Quantum’s care coordinators.
Skaggs added that Progyny was chosen as a accomplice after an intensive evaluation of firms, and that Quantum and the household constructing resolution already share a number of shoppers, together with two Fortune 100 employers. He didn’t title these shoppers.
“We’re in fixed communication with our shoppers relating to the profit challenges, and having a complete household constructing providing has develop into a key precedence,” Skaggs mentioned. “However employers additionally need that resolution to be a part of their bigger navigation platform. This started our market analysis, which requires us to have a look at quite a few elements when deciding on a Most well-liked Associate … Deep product integration, shared product roadmaps and member expertise.”
The businesses will probably be sharing income made by the partnership, Skaggs mentioned.
The partnership comes at a time when about one in 5 ladies wrestle with getting pregnant after a yr of attempting, in accordance with the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention. About 43% of employers and 28% of staff say their firm doesn’t present household constructing help, comparable 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 posh medical situation the place the ‘one-size-fits-all’ strategy prohibits numerous sufferers from receiving the proper care the primary time,” Choi said. “By means of this partnership with Quantum Well being, we hope to develop entry to supported, inclusive, and complete fertility and household constructing care so folks can obtain their dream of parenthood.”
Different firms offering fertility and household constructing assist companies embrace Carrot Fertility, Maven Clinic and Kindbody.
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