The document summarizes how Aware Health can save self-insured employers millions of dollars by reducing unnecessary surgeries, imaging, and lost work time for musculoskeletal conditions. It notes that 95% of common spine, wrist, and other surgeries are no more effective than non-surgical treatments. Aware Health uses diagnosis without imaging to prevent chronic pain and has shown real-world savings of $9.78 to $78.66 per member per month for employers, a 96% net promoter score, and over $2 million in annual savings for one enterprise customer.

1. Saving Self-Insured Employers Millions of Dollars
Dr. Heidi Ojha, CEO

2. on orthopedic conditions each year

3. Spine
surgeries

4. Spine
surgeries Wrist surgeries

5. Spine
surgeries
And many
more…
Wrist surgeries

6. Musculoskeletal
Cancer
Diabetes
Cardiovascular
Hypertension
52%
45%
51%
33%
26%
Payroll
Self
insured

7. 95% of these
surgeries are no
more effective than
doing nothing.
nothing.

8. Dr. Heidi Ojha | CEO Jim Jenkins | CTO

11. Decrease
d lost
work time
by 10x
96%
Net Promoter
Score

12. Imaging leads to Surgery
‣ Mike twisted his knee hiking
‣ x-ray reveals "bone-on-bone"
‣ Schedules surgery even though
it wasn’t the cause of pain!
The Aware alternative
‣ Diagnosis: MCL sprain no need
for imaging/surgery, pain
resolves

14. 14
Employer 3 PMPM
Employer 2 PMPM
Employer 1 PMPM
Nonuser vs Aware user PMPM ($)
Non Users Aware Users
$1.72
$4.91
$4.55
$45.09
$9.78
$78.66
PMPM ($)
Real World Savings: 3 Data sets

15. $-
$20.00
$40.00
$60.00
$80.00
$100.00
$120.00
$140.00
$160.00
MSK PMPM Cost WH PMPM Cost
2020 2021 2022
Started Full
Aware Health
Program
PMPM Cost

16. Saved our enterprise
customer Staywell over
$2M/year

18. Paid Members

19. Paid Members ARR

20. Paid Members ARR
Sales in our
Pipeline

22. Diagnose without
imaging

23. Diagnose without
imaging
Prevent chronic
pain vs. treat it

24. Diagnose without
imaging
Prevent chronic
pain vs. treat it
Most savings
70%
20-30%
20-30%
20-30%

25. Together we can free
millions of people from
unnecessary surgeries.
Heidi Ojha | heidi@awarehealth.io

26. Appendix

27. 64 studies show
that the most
common elective
surgeries are no
more effective than
doing nothing.
50
63
75
88
100
Surgery Passage of Time
Pain
Improvement
.
Efficacy:
Harris IA, Sidhu V, Mittal R, Adie S. Surgery for chronic musculoskeletal
pain: the question of evidence. Pain. 2020 Sep;161 Suppl 1:S95-S103..