Keeping Health Care Simple: The Oscar Approach

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As America continues to deal with its healthcare issues, one company seeks to simplify the industry, focusing on transparency and simplicity. Robert Taurosa discusses.

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Keeping Health Care Simple: The Oscar Approach

These slides use concepts from my (Jeff Funk) course entitled Biz Models for Hi-Tech Products to analyze the business model for Oscar Health Insurance. Unlike most health care insurance companies, Oscar focuses on end-users as opposed to companies. It connects end users with its network of health care providers (e.g., doctors, hospitals). It focuses on end-users, largely because America’s new health care plan, usually called Obamacare, opened up this opportunity for focusing on end-users, who didn’t have coverage through employers. Oscar reduces its costs through a simpler form of web-based billing, Telemedicine, and wearable technology. These slides describe the value proposition, customers, method of value capture, scope of activities and the method of strategic control for Oscar.

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