Washington, D.C., January 5, 2025 – Mitigate Partners and ALICORN are thrilled to announce a groundbreaking strategic partnership to help employers have more control over their group health insurance plans and to empower advisors with robust tools to be more efficient in support of their clients with ALICORN’s innovative suite of products and services. This collaboration empowers advisors within Mitigate Partners to seamlessly integrate ALICORN’s offerings into the design, administration, and support of their clients’ group health plans.
“We are excited to work with Carl Schuessler and the visionary advisors who are part of Mitigate Partners. We are aligned in their mission to improve health care and health insurance,” said Praveen Mooganur, CEO of ALICORN. “Each Mitigate Partner is making a difference one employer at a time, and through our partnership, they will be able to deliver even more creative approaches that work better for employers and their employees.”
Carl Schuessler Jr., Co-founder of Mitigate Partners, shared, “The ALICORN team is unique – and to no surprise, they are highly aligned with the Mitigate Partners’ approach to serving clients. They listen deeply, collaborate frequently, and deliver solutions that solve real problems. In my experience working with so many organizations, that’s rare. We are excited about our strategic partnership with ALICORN.”
ALICORN’s Portfolio of Innovative Solutions:
- AVA™ by ALICORN:
- A text-based virtual assistant that delivers instant answers and items without an app or login.
- Employees get ID Cards, EOBs, Precertification documents, DocRatings™, MedRecords™, Coverage Answers, Formulary Answers, and more simply by texting AVA™.
- AVA™ removes all language barriers as employees can chat in 57 languages.
- advisor™ Platform:
- The advisor™ platform is a collaborative client management and integrated care coordination platform that helps benefits advisors to get more done in less time.
- Benefits advisors stop drowning in emails, phone calls, and follow-ups by managing contracts, documents, internal-external communications, and care coordination on the advisor™ platform with their employer clients and partner organizations.
- Birdie™ Platform:
- Benefits advisors use the Birdie™ platform to demonstrate to clients and prospects how they take control of the claims data in real-time.
- Birdie™ reports are delivered on-demand to the benefits advisor’s “inbox” – this enables the benefits advisor to engage in strategic conversations while meeting with CEOs and CFOs with data and analytics at their fingertips.
- Birdie™ automates health risk reduction by segmenting members and then promoting the use of ALICORN’s virtual care services outlined below.
- CareChat™ Virtual Primary Care:
- Members get a dedicated virtual PCP and unlimited virtual consultations with $0 copay and $0 deductible.
- CareChat™ Virtual Primary Care offers an integrated chronic condition management program and 24×7 urgent care.
- Members with Diabetes, High Blood Pressure, High Cholesterol, and Depression get weekly check-ins until their chronic condition is stabilized.
- CareChat™ Virtual Health Coach:
- Members get a virtual health coach + a licensed therapist for costly comorbid health conditions like Musculoskeletal, Digestive, Cardio-metabolic, Cancer, Sleep & Insomnia, and Depression.
- The virtual health coach works with a group of multi-specialty physicians to create a personal plan for the members, including coaching, therapy, digital treatments, and custom care kits.
- CareChat™ Virtual Surgery Coach:
- Members benefit from a virtual surgery coach that offers personalized coaching before, during, and after surgery.
- Coaching includes bite-sized lessons, exercise videos, mindfulness techniques, meal plans, alcohol moderation, and more to strengthen the body and mind.
- The coaching helps members reduce surgery complications and get back to work faster.
About Mitigate Partners:
Mitigate Partners is a collaborative alliance of twenty-seven (27) independent employee benefits consulting and brokerage firms with more than 150 years of combined experience. Our team at Mitigate Partners is committed to delivering actively managed EMPLOYER-BUILT Healthcare to replace the archaic passively managed Insurer-Built Healthcare so prominent in the marketplace today. We accomplish this through many EMPLOYER-BUILT Health Plans including our FairCost Health Plan with a seamlessly integrated platform containing 25+ Cost Containment Solutions which results in best-in-class benefits at substantially lower costs, all while improving clinical and financial outcomes for the health plan and the employees. We deliver HEALTHCARE That Works! For more information, visit www.mitigatepartners.com and follow us on LinkedIn.
About ALICORN Inc.:
We solve health and productivity problems for businesses. We offer a suite of technology platforms, virtual assistants, virtual care services, and data analytics that are designed to improve employees’ health and increase their productivity. Our products and services include the CareChat™ platform, advisor™ platform, Birdie™, Direct™, and AVA™ by ALICORN. ALICORN was founded in 2019. For more information, visit https://alicorn.co and follow us on LinkedIn.
