TranscarentWith Transcarent, Glen Tullman and General Catalyst’s Hemant Taneja are applying the Livongo playbook to the employer-sponsored healthcare system. It offered chronic disease management with real-time data and coaching that clinically improved users’ health and reduced overall costs for employers. Earlier this year, Haven Health, the joint venture between Amazon, J.P. Morgan and Berkshire Hathaway to lower employee healthcare costs, imploded. Not Transcarent, which instead takes a pre-negotiated percentage cut of an employer’s healthcare cost savings after the fact. Tullman sees the current pandemic as having accelerated trends towards adoption of digital health, while simultaneously increasing employer frustration with higher healthcare costs.

Source: Forbes March 18, 2021 04:52 UTC