By Noa Bendit-Shtull In 2019, a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association estimated the total cost of waste in the U.S. healthcare system to make up 25% of total healthcare spending. This implies a huge potential cost savings for Oscar and the healthcare system more broadly…

By Erin Landau As a Product Manager, I spend what feels like my entire day making decisions — what features do we prioritize in a new product, should we address this software bug now or later, what should my team build next? Yet many of these decisions are spur of…

By Mario Schlosser: CEO and Co-Founder at Oscar Oscar is turning 10! What better way to celebrate than by showing some charts — because that’s the Oscar way. With that, let’s get into it. Here is how many distinct providers we have paid claims to: Oscar has helped a lot…

By Frank Firke We spend a lot of time talking about healthcare costs at Oscar, and especially trends in healthcare costs. Most of the time that’s in the context of a line reflecting total healthcare spending that’s going up and to the right faster than most people think is reasonable…

By Dan Ariniello, Sydney Choi, Sarah Mitrano and Gabriela Lawrowska This post was originally shared on Oscar’s Design blog. Good communication between designers and engineers is key throughout the product life cycle — especially when it comes time to implement the designs you’ve worked so hard to develop. …

By Noa Bendit-Shtull A computer’s native language is ones and zeros. Health care’s native language is, mostly, not ones and zeros. On the Data Science Team, a lot of the work we do focuses on bridging this “language barrier” between technology and healthcare. This post focuses on how one particular…

By Lauren Meier, Iliana Cantu, and Luna Ito-Fisher: Decrypted By Us is an initiative we (Lauren, Iliana, and Luna) started outside of Oscar, after meeting as Oscar interns! It is a learning community by and for people from groups underrepresented in Computer Science. …

By Talia Stocks Over the last several months, Oscar has been preparing to migrate our software from Apache Aurora to a more modern job scheduling platform called Kubernetes. For those unfamiliar, both these platforms allow an organization to install and run programs in much the same way as you would…

By Duncan Greenberg As the first tech enabled health insurance start-up, we like to say that Oscar Health is a melting pot of healthcare wonks and technology geeks. In order to solve healthcare’s hardest problems in new ways, it takes all kinds of expertise — clinicians, plan designers, operators, actuaries…