Most cancers care firm Colour Well being is partnering with insurer Evry Well being to reinforce employer well being plans with its most cancers care providers, in accordance with a Wednesday announcement.
Evry Well being is a Texas-based insurer serving absolutely insured employers with 51 or extra workers. Its plans haven’t any conventional cost-sharing, together with no co-pays and no deductibles, and supply a care crew of nurses, physicians, nutritionists and behavioral well being suppliers.
By means of the partnership with Colour Well being, Evry Well being members can now entry Colour’s digital most cancers clinic, which incorporates providers like screening, prognosis assist, in-treatment care and medical survivorship specialists. Colour 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.
“Colour is trying to broaden and scale to achieve extra sufferers, bettering most cancers care via accessibility, comfort, and early motion,” mentioned Caroline Savello, president of Colour Well being, in an e mail. “By means of this partnership, we’re aiming to allow members to raised perceive their most cancers threat, present quick access to guideline based mostly screenings, shut care gaps, direct members to in-network websites of care, and cut back the variety of late-stage most cancers diagnoses throughout the member inhabitants.”
Evry Well being selected Colour Well being as a companion attributable to aligned philosophies, mentioned Dr. Glenn Hamilton, chief medical officer of the insurer.
“Colour gives end-to-end most cancers care providers for members, from a guidelines-based screening strategy, right through remedy and survivorship,” Hamilton said. “Colour meets members the place they’re of their well being journey, and gives 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 listing most cancers as a high well being price driver. About 4 in 10 adults will develop most cancers of their lifetime and increasingly more youthful staff are getting most cancers. By working with Colour Well being, Evry Well being is targeted on increasing entry to extra proactive most cancers care.
“We wish our members to have entry to cutting-edge screening, counseling and assist for all points of most cancers — from higher understanding how finest to remain wholesome and mitigate most cancers threat components, interpretation and assist for irregular screening outcomes, lively remedy navigation and medical providers to assist with symptom administration, and assist for most cancers survivors,” Hamilton mentioned.
Different most cancers care firms embody Thyme Care, OncoveryCare and AccessHope.
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