By Paige Minemyer | Jul 30, 2020
12:32pm
Oscar Health is
planning to expand into 19 new markets and four new states in 2021, the insurer
announced Thursday.
The expansion will
bring the startup health plan's geographic footprint to 19 states and 47
markets, pending regulatory approvals. It will bring Oscar's individual and
family plans to potential members in Arkansas, Oklahoma, Iowa and North
Carolina, as well as to new markets in some of the states it already serves,
such as Florida and Pennsylvania.
The announcement also marks the fourth
straight year that Oscar has unveiled plans to expand.
Alongside the plans to
further expand its reach, Oscar unveiled its new $0 Virtual Primary Care, which
will offer a slew of digital and in-home services to its individual and family
plan members in 10 markets, including Houston, Miami, New York City and Los
Angeles, at no cost.
“With the launch of
Oscar Primary Care, Oscar is making even more unprecedented, cost-effective
plans available,” Oscar CEO Mario Schlosser said in a statement. “Americans
consistently cite cost, quality and convenience as their biggest struggles with
the healthcare system—our new offering solves for all of them.”
Members will have
unlimited access to virtual visits with dedicated Oscar primary care providers
for $0, as well as no cost for tier-one prescriptions, durable medical
equipment, labs, diagnostic imaging and initial specialty care referrals from
Oscar providers.
The primary care
program will also offer vitals monitoring kits and in-home lab draws at no cost
when ordered by Oscar primary care providers.
The Virutal Primary
Care program is in addition to Oscar's existing care teams that assist with
navigation and $0 Virtual Urgent Care offerings.
Oscar also announced
last month that its co-branded plans with Cigna will launch in Atlanta and in the San
Francisco Bay Area and across Tennessee later this year,
pending regulatory approvals.
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