Teal Well being, a digital girls’s well being firm, launched a partnership with Thatch Market on Tuesday that goals to enhance entry to at-home cervical most cancers screening.
Thatch Market is a advantages platform that helps employers supply Particular person Protection Well being Reimbursement Preparations (ICHRAs), by which employers can present their staff tax-free cash to allow them to buy their very own particular person medical health insurance plans. A few of its purchasers embrace ADP, Jersey Mikes and Smoothie King.
By the brand new partnership, Thatch’s employer prospects can now supply Teal Well being’s at-home cervical most cancers screening as an worker profit by way of an ICHRA. To obtain the screening package, girls can log in to Thatch Market and go to the Teal Well being web page. They will buy the package from their employer and full a brief telehealth go to with a Teal supplier, who prescribes the screening.
Sufferers then obtain the screening package within the mail, accumulate their pattern with the FDA-authorized Teal Wand (a vaginal pattern self-collection machine) and mail it to the lab for testing. Outcomes are then shared by way of the Teal portal, and sufferers can join with a Teal supplier nearly in the event that they want observe up care.
“We selected to accomplice with Thatch to make sure that extra staff can entry life-saving screenings with out the stress, time constraints, or discomfort typically related to conventional care,” mentioned Kara Egan, CEO and co-founder of Teal Well being, in an e mail. “It’s one step nearer to attaining our mission of creating cervical most cancers screenings extra broadly accessible and reasonably priced.”
Most most cancers screenings happen midlife, although cervical most cancers screenings are sometimes wanted a lot earlier, usually throughout working years. Nonetheless, due to a scarcity of entry to cervical most cancers screenings, about one in three girls should not up-to-date on their screenings, in accordance with the announcement.
That is what Teal Well being hopes to enhance on this partnership with Thatch, Egan mentioned.
“Our aim at Teal Well being is to take away the limitations that stop girls from staying updated on important preventive care, particularly cervical most cancers screening,” she acknowledged. “With our Teal Wand, we goal to make screening extra accessible and handy by assembly girls the place they’re, whether or not at dwelling or by way of their office advantages, and additional our mission to get rid of cervical most cancers as a public well being concern within the U.S.”
ICHRAs are additionally rising in popularity for employers as they give the impression of being to lower prices and supply their staff extra flexibility, although they’re rising at a comparatively gradual tempo. There isn’t a lot information on the market that exhibits how many individuals are literally enrolled in ICHRAs, however Centene CEO Sarah London just lately known as it the “way forward for particular person medical health insurance.”
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