Precedence Well being has tapped Carrot Fertility to offer reproductive well being assist to its members, the businesses introduced Monday.

Precedence Well being, primarily based in Grand Rapids, Mich., is the second-largest well being plan in Michigan and presents plans for employer teams, people, Medicare and Medicaid. It has about 1.3 million members. Carrot Fertility, primarily based in Menlo Park, Calif., is a fertility and family-building platform. It presents assist for pre-pregnancy, being pregnant, parenting and menopause.

The partnership, which launches on January 1, is on the market to completely funded and self-funded employer teams. Carrot Fertility presents employers two design options: Carrot Core and Carrot Professional. Each options embrace assist for fertility remedies, being pregnant, postpartum, surrogacy, adoption, menopause and low testosterone.

Carrot Core presents entry to the Carrot platform, instructional assets, and steerage for numerous varieties of journeys, together with limitless telehealth chats with specialists. It consists of Precedence Well being fertility protection, entry to fertility pharmacies, a community of fertility suppliers, and connections to adoption businesses and specialists in surrogacy, menopause, and hormonal well being.

In the meantime, Carrot Professional builds on the Carrot Core advantages by including extra protection for adoption, surrogacy, being pregnant, and postpartum providers, equivalent to doulas and milk transport. Carrot Professional permits employers to tailor monetary advantages to cowl extra providers not included within the Precedence Well being plan.

“Our aim with this partnership is to make it as seamless as attainable for employers to supply their staff complete fertility, household constructing, and hormonal well being advantages,” Adam Johnson, Carrot Fertility’s chief development and technique officer, mentioned in an e mail. “By this partnership, we’re offering totally insured and self-insured employer teams with inclusive choices to allow them to assist their staff members whether or not they’re pursuing fertility remedies, surrogacy, adoption, being pregnant and postpartum care, or one thing else.”

Precedence Well being selected to work with Carrot Fertility for 3 causes, in response to Rick Abbott, senior vp of employer options at Precedence Well being. The primary is that their care encompasses “all features of life,” from pre-pregnancy to lifelong hormonal assist. Moreover, the 2 corporations have a shared mission to increase entry to reasonably priced well being care providers, and Carrot is targeted on “creating an expertise that places our members first.”

Extra employers want to provide fertility and family-building assist to their staff. In accordance with Carrot Fertility’s 2023 International Fertility within the Office Report, 75% of respondents mentioned fertility advantages are an vital a part of an inclusive office tradition. Fertility advantages may also assist with expertise recruitment and retention, Johnson mentioned.

By partnering with Carrot Fertility, Precedence Well being goals to “make household planning, reproductive well being and hormonal assist providers extra accessible to employers who want to provide such providers to their staff, and improve the affordability and accessibility of those providers for our members,” Abbott mentioned.

Different corporations that provide fertility, household constructing, and menopause assist embrace Maven Clinic and Progyny.

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