SAN FRANCISCO and SEATTLE, Nov. 8,
2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Castlight Health, Inc.
(NYSE: CSLT) announced its partnership with the Washington
Health Alliance, the state's leader in healthcare cost and quality
transparency. The partnership integrates Castlight's comprehensive
health navigation platform with Washington state's largest healthcare cost and
quality database to help the state's Castlight customers, including
Boeing, Esterline Technologies, Microsoft and Providence St. Joseph
Health, and their employees make smarter health benefits and
healthcare decisions.
"We are proud to partner with the Washington Health Alliance, an
innovative local leader committed to improving healthcare for the
people of Washington state," said
John Doyle, CEO of Castlight Health.
"Castlight's platform, integrated with the best-available cost and
quality data, will help Washington
employees make better healthcare choices by guiding them to
high-quality, high-value providers and care."
The Washington Health Alliance is a multi-stakeholder nonprofit
organization that shares the most comprehensive data on the state's
healthcare system to help providers, patients, employers, and
unions improve the quality and value of their healthcare.
"The Alliance's all-payer-claims database will offer Castlight
employer customers and their employees objective, in-depth insights
into the healthcare and services delivered by Washington health systems and providers," said
Nancy Giunto, Executive Director of
the Washington Health Alliance.
Castlight's health navigation platform is the only one to offer
a full range of total wellbeing capabilities, care guidance tools,
and an engagement hub in a single platform. Now, Castlight users in
Washington can engage with the
platform to find and compare providers, not just by average 'star'
ratings or patient reviews, but by actual quality claims data.
Whether an employee wants to find a high-quality primary care
doctor or wants to ensure their next ER visit doesn't ring up
unnecessary costs, they can quickly and easily use Castlight's
platform to find the best option for their care.
About Castlight Health
Castlight is on a mission to make it as easy as humanly possible to
navigate healthcare and live happier, healthier, more productive
lives. Our health navigation platform connects with hundreds
of health vendors, benefits resources, and plan designs, giving
rise to the world's first comprehensive app for all health needs.
We guide individuals—based on their unique profile—to the best
resources available to them, whether they are healthy, chronically
ill, or actively seeking medical care. In doing so, we help
companies regain control over rising healthcare costs and get more
value from their benefits investments. Castlight revolutionized the
healthcare sector with the introduction of data-driven price
transparency tools in 2008 and the first consumer-grade wellbeing
platform in 2012. Today, Castlight serves as the health navigation
platform for millions of people and is a trusted partner to many of
the largest employers in the world.
About Washington Health Alliance
The Washington Health Alliance is a place where stakeholders work
collaboratively to transform Washington
state's health care system for the better. The Alliance
brings together organizations that share a commitment to drive
change in our health care system by offering a forum for critical
conversation and aligned efforts by stakeholders: purchasers,
providers, health plans, consumers and other health care partners.
The Alliance believes strongly in transparency and offers trusted
and credible reporting of progress on measures of health care
quality and value. The Alliance is a nonpartisan 501(c)(3)
nonprofit with more than 185 member organizations. A cornerstone of
the Alliance's work is the Community Checkup, a report to the
public comparing the performance of medical groups, hospitals and
health plans and offering a community-level view on important
measures of health care quality (www.wacommunitycheckup.org).
Castlight Media Contact:
Shannon Magill
press@castlighthealth.com
415-829-1500
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