Yuzu Health

At Yuzu Health, we hear this complaint every day about legacy TPAs. There are innovators like Benjamin John that know how to make healthcare cheaper by responding in real-time to member needs. These intervention models don't work with TPAs that cannot or *will not* provide the data and tools needed to execute dynamic care navigation strategies.

Please join us in trying to save sick people from the abyss of engineered bureaucracy! https://lnkd.in/dFi6cmMz This is the great challenge of our time, and whether we solve it makes or breaks what the social contract looks like for the next generation.

We're hiring an Abstraction Engineer at Yuzu Health. Yuzu's company mission is to make health insurance SIMPLE. We do this by enabling new ways of getting healthcare expenses paid for by insurance. For health insurance plans built on top of Yuzu, members can natively and easily get a virtual credit card to spend on approved services so that they can skip the wait and the bureaucracy of dealing with "billing departments" and get care that is priced fairly. We build the tools and logic to understand how much can be paid for various services as well as processing the payments behind the millions of dollars per year spent by our employer customers. We are not an "add on" or "wrapper". We don't just move money around. We pay claims and make tough decisions and we're proud of that. We built our own claims processing system so that we can build using new technologies with less bloat. As an Abstraction Engineer, you will come in with the mandate of making our systems simple. You will be the type of person who loves finding elegant abstractions, refactoring code, and designing architecture to support feature engineers. We have about 3 years of runway and a lean team of 7 based in NYC. This is the hardest technical problem I've ever worked on applied to the hardest moral and policy problem of our generation -- making healthcare affordable, unbureaucratic, and fair.

Listen to Plan Designer Richard Walton CEBS describe how simple his Maverick Strategy health plan is. Yuzu serves as the low-overhead cash-payment and accounting engine that pays doctors immediately for services letting them spend time with patients and not revenue cycle headaches. Health insurance networks are inefficient revenue cycle overhead. Nearly every doctor and facility takes cash, and at a cheaper rate than insurance. https://lnkd.in/eA2sQxzW

Happy to share that Yuzu will be speaking at The Maverick Strategy Unveiling Event on May 9th! It'll be my first time in West Texas, and I can't imagine a better person to show me the town than Richard Walton CEBS. He's been a leader in the Amarillo community for 10+ years getting employers access to innovative health plans like Sana and Sedera. Now Richard is designing a plan using all of his knowledge and Yuzu Health's payment and technology capabilities. We can't wait to talk about it!

We're proud to have Russell Pekala on the Self-Funded with Spencer podcast. Russell Pekala was driven to do customer support at Yuzu because he's seen how deeply impersonal and byzantine BUCA plans are for members firsthand.

Saturday morning health plan designing with the guys from Yuzu Health! I can’t think of a better way to spend my birthday. Thanks for making the trip guys! Russell Pekala Will Gillach It’s rare to work with folks so aligned with our mission. Cheers to fixing big problems, instead of just talking about them!! Y’all are the real deal. 💪🏼 Brian E. Hill, MD HIPnation

It's a cool day at Yuzu HQ. How often does your health plan refund you or your employer at the end of the year? With 2023 in the books, many employers' annual health plans have concluded. And that includes the first set of beta customers who placed their trust in Yuzu Health as their health insurance plan for the 2023 plan year. One powerful part of self-funded and level-funded health plans, such as Yuzu's, is the fact that the employer is entitled to any unspent funds at the end of the year. So guess what? Yuzu customers who prioritized their health and worked with us to get affordable, yet high quality, care when needed -- they get their money back. Money they can use to grow their business and invest in their employees. I've never been happier to cut a check than to these folks. Here at Yuzu, we're far from perfect (we're working through a couple customer support cases as I type this up). But we're learning fast and are fully committed to doing right on behalf of employers and their employees. Here's to putting them first in 2024 :) And the biggest shoutout to Max, Pam, Ryan, and Russell for pushing the boundaries every day and having a blast along the way. I'm thankful for you.