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Every year, 40M women and individuals with vaginal anatomy suffer from pelvic floor dysfunction. Origin is a women’s health platform for prevention and treatment of a wide range of overlooked health issues related to pregnancy, postpartum, menopause, and sexual health. It offers virtual and in-person PT sessions, covered by insurance and supported by proprietary exercise programs, educational content, and community experiences.

In concert with their rebrand, Accorded is launching Contract Designer, a business application for healthcare stakeholders to leverage financial forecasts to dynamically design and compare value-based contract terms. Contract Designer facilitates seamless collaboration between providers and payers with in-app proposal delivery and contract addendum generation. This is the first to market solution of its kind for value-based contract design and collaboration.

SALT LAKE CITY, COPPELL, Texas and SAN MATEO, Calif., Oct. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sera Prognostics Inc., The Pregnancy Company® (NASDAQ: SERA), focused on improving maternal and neonatal health by providing innovative pregnancy biomarker information to doctors and patients, Sonrava Health, a national family of health and wellness companies, and Cerebrae, an innovator in pricing and measuring the financial value of care, are collaborating to provide Sera's PreTRM® Test to members of Sonrava Health's employer-sponsored health insurance program. The PreTRM® Test is the only broadly clinically validated, commercially available blood test that provides an early, individual risk assessment for spontaneous preterm birth in asymptomatic, singleton pregnancies. Sera's PreTRM® Test identifies nearly 90% of pregnancies where spontaneous preterm deliveries will occur, enabling earlier proactive intervention designed to improve the well-being of mothers and babies.

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Motivation

Employers are rethinking approaches to improving the quality of care provided to their people while also reducing the cost of care per employee. The Willis Towers Watson 2020 Health Care Delivery Survey indicated that 73% of employers intend to adopt alternative care delivery models by 2023.¹

Where are you from?

I was born in Seoul, South Korea, but my family moved a few times – Fort Lee, New Jersey before moving to Houston, Texas. And I’ve continued to move westward and am currently living in Los Angeles, California. The diverse culture in LA is definitely a plus and you cannot beat the food in LA. Koreatown has endless Korean food!

Value-based care (VBC) is framed as the path to a more financially sustainable, equitable, and efficient healthcare system, where providers are incentivized to focus on the quality of care they deliver. This concept continues to gain traction across the industry as the most viable solution to the nation’s healthcare woes. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) - historically, a trendsetter for US healthcare - has doubled down on the concept of VBC. CMS has committed to shifting all Medicare beneficiaries to a care relationship with accountability for quality and total cost of care by 2030.²