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Sidecar Health Names Sharath Pasupunuti Chief Technology Officer

Sidecar Health has appointed Sharath Pasupunuti as Chief Technology Officer, adding a seasoned healthcare technology leader to guide the company’s engineering and AI strategy as it continues to scale its consumer-driven health insurance model. Sharath will oversee engineering, data, and platform development, building on Sidecar Health’s existing use of artificial intelligence and modern infrastructure to improve…

Sidecar Health Expands Into Texas to Meet Rising Employer Demand for a Better Alternative to Legacy Health Plans

Sidecar Health is expanding its fully insured health insurance offering into Texas to meet growing demand from employers and employees seeking a modern alternative to legacy health plans. This expansion enables Sidecar Health to offer its consumer-driven model to Texas employers with over 50 employees. Texas is home to one of the largest employer markets…

Sidecar Health Expands Mental Health Access Through Partnership with Rula

Sidecar Health has expanded its mental health coverage through a partnership with Rula, a nationwide behavioral health provider group. From the start, Sidecar Health has treated mental health as a core element of healthcare — offering members unlimited sessions, clear upfront prices, and the ability to see any licensed provider without network restrictions. This partnership…

Sidecar Health and Kettering Health Partner to Expand Access and Ease in Southwest Ohio

Sidecar Health members across Southwest Ohio now have the easiest access to care at Kettering Health’s 14 medical centers and hundreds of outpatient facilities. With complete price transparency and fewer paperwork headaches, this agreement is part of a broader movement to eliminate the barriers that make healthcare unnecessarily complicated and expensive. The new partnership between…

Sidecar Health and The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center Announce Groundbreaking Fixed-Price Care Agreement

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Dec. 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Sidecar Health, a pioneering consumer-driven health insurance carrier, today announces a new, transparent pricing agreement with The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, home to the third-largest cancer hospital in the United States. This innovative agreement represents a significant advancement in transparent healthcare pricing and marks the first…

Sidecar Health and ProMedica forge innovative agreement to improve health care access in Ohio

TOLEDO, OH. July 18, 2024 — Sidecar Health, a consumer-driven health insurance carrier on a mission to make quality health care accessible, proudly announces a first-of-its-kind pricing and patient access agreement with ProMedica, one of Ohio’s largest and most renowned health systems. This collaboration marks a significant milestone in the ongoing effort to improve the…

Sidecar Health Selects Koch Disruptive Technologies to lead $165M Series D Financing

The only health insurance provider to offer unprecedented price transparency and access to care expands its employer offering into Florida on the heels of strong growth in Ohio and Georgia. El Segundo, CA, June 26, 2024 – Sidecar Health, a transformative health insurance company providing major medical coverage to businesses, announced today the closure…

Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company and Sidecar Health team up to tackle rising healthcare costs

COLUMBUS, OH. January 9, 2024 – Sidecar Health, a transformative health insurance company giving its members control over costs and choice, announced today that it is teaming up with Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company, PBC (Cost Plus Drugs) to help bring high-quality, lower-cost prescription drugs to Sidecar Health members. Both Sidecar Health and Cost…

Transformative health insurance company, Sidecar Health, expands major medical group offering to Georgia

COLUMBUS, OH., October 23, 2023 – Sidecar Health, a transformative health insurance company, has announced expansion of its ACA-compliant major medical employer health insurance plans into Georgia following a year of strong growth in Ohio. Bringing positive disruption to health insurance Sidecar Health provides innovative health insurance plans that deliver unparalleled choice and access. The…

Rising mental health demands require an innovative insurance model

COLUMBUS, OH., May 16, 2023 – Sidecar Health consumer driven health plans offer robust major medical coverage with first of its kind access and no network restrictions or prior authorizations. In honor of Metal Health Awareness month, the company published an article on how a new approach to health insurance can help the nearly 20%…