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.