More than 35 million private-sector employees are enrolled in a self-insured health plan and if you add their families and public-sector employees on self-insured health plans, the number of covered lives is above 100 million. These employers are wrestling with some of the same cost-increase challenges that commercial insurers face. So how can a company like Accolade — that helps employees better navigate their healthcare journeys — bend costs lower for the employer customers?
For that, MedCity Pivot turned to Dr. Shantanu Nundy, a part-time physician as well as chief health officer at Seattle-based Accolade. Dr. Nundy described the company’s approach to healthcare savings as well as commented on where AI can have most value.