Let’s Make Healthcare Work, at Work

If you’re in charge of healthcare for your company, you probably feel helpless.

Jay Parkinson, MD, MPH
Sherpaa
Published in
3 min readApr 14, 2017

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You know what your claims data shows. You want to get costs under control, but employees keep getting haphazard care. And doctors, who aren’t playing on your team and don’t care about your company’s costs, keep billing as much as they can.

Nothing helps.

For decades, you’ve been sold top-down healthcare “solutions” with no measurable benefit — wellness services, activity trackers, video visits, in-house clinics, price transparency tools. Most brokers you work with play it safe suggesting the old “nobody ever got fired for hiring IBM” solutions. And insurance companies keep presenting premium increases happy to continue the status quo as long as you keep paying them.

Change requires thinking radically different about healthcare.

Getting care is wildly expensive. Employees are on their own, so they do their best. They’re going to ERs, urgent care centers, and doctors who couldn’t care less about how much things cost. They’re getting procedures done at local facilities that bill as much as they can. And they’ve found that shopping around for healthcare is impossible.

Employees need a 311 for healthcare — a trusted, easily accessible, always available go-to group of doctors who can diagnose and treat employees and coordinate cost-effective local care in real-time. The only way to prevent costs is to get ahead of in-person care. Once you do that, you can work with employees on a case-by-case basis to direct the most appropriate and cost-effective next steps.

Sherpaa is radically different healthcare.

Sherpaa is powerful and connected.

UTIs? We got you covered. Chronic sinus infections? Yep. Worrisome breast lump? Knee replacement? We’ll take employees under our wing, talk doctor-to-doctor with in-network, trusted local specialists, arrange care, and stay with employees throughout the entire process.

Everybody wants better, more accessible, and less expensive healthcare.

We’re not expensive. But we’re not free. Bundled, free solutions are free for a reason. In fact, we believe a free or bundled service is an open admission it offers no real value. Real impact takes an investment.

Sherpaa has two billing options

Option 1: Pay per case

Not convinced 50–65% of your company will use Sherpaa? Try us out at a flat rate per case. A “case” is created by an employee when they’re sick, hurt, etc. Some cases are simple, like UTIs. Others are complex and last months, for things like worrisome breast lumps.

Option 2: Per Employee User Per Month

Once we understand how your company uses Sherpaa, we can switch to a flat rate per user to keep your costs consistent and predictable.

See how Sherpaa reduced ER visits by 25% and urgent care visits by 36%, saving over $1,250,000 for an employer

Let’s end the madness together. Join Sherpaa for Business here.

Helpful Stats

50–65% of employees will use Sherpaa at least once at the end of 12 months

Users will create, on average, 2.7 cases per year

Take a tour of Sherpaa’s custom built platform that powers an entirely new and markedly more efficient healthcare delivery model

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Jay Parkinson, MD, MPH
Sherpaa

For the last 10 years, I’ve built technology & services to help doctors be better doctors and patients be better patients. Founder & CEO, Sherpaa