The bulletin board next to the elevators at AndHealth is stuffed with cards, theme park souvenirs, a child's beach drawing – but those aren't employee mementos. They're from patients, able to enjoy travel and sports again.
On cardboard 3-D glasses, one wrote they were able to enjoy Imax movies for the first time in years without migraine attacks.
Since its first pilot group while in stealth mode in 2021, the Columbus startup has landed a full contract with every employer that tests its chronic disease reversal program, said Erica Conroy, senior vice president of employer partnerships. In the 15 months since its public launch, every customer has renewed.
"The employers are seeing, wow, these are completely different employees," Conroy told Columbus Inno. "Contracting with us has allowed the awareness to be raised to employers of the problem of migraine and autoimmune (conditions) within their population. It's not visible in the medical claims, because there's such poor access to (specialty) care.
"So it's easy to say, 'Oh, we don't have a migraine problem here,'" she said. "They roll out the program, and they see some of their top employees coming forward and saying, 'I've actually been suffering with this every single day.'"
Founded by Matt Scantland, co-founder of CoverMyMeds, AndHealth launched in February 2022 with $57 million in private equity funding, following several months of quiet testing with patients. Unlike telehealth platforms that connect to doctors, AndHealth becomes the direct care provider as well.
Incorporated as And Health LLC, the company takes up one floor of Miranova Corporate Office, at 2 Miranova Place downtown. It has plenty of room to expand in the tower that's currently 57% vacant.
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Inside AndHealth's offices
It's actually the last of four floors that CoverMyMeds had expanded into, before moving to its newly built Franklinton campus. McKesson Corp. acquired CoverMyMeds for $1.4 billion in 2017; Scantland left at the end of 2019 and took a year off for travel and a conservation project before starting a new company.
The space has been renovated with even more emphasis on health, including a wide-open activity room for morning yoga sessions.
Instead of a tech startup's beer, the taps pour kombucha. One meeting room has a chiropractic table; a practitioner visits twice weekly.
AndHealth offers staff free chef-prepared lunches, which Scantland started at CoverMyMeds. In keeping with dietary recommendations to patients, the menu is entirely gluten-free, including gluten-free sub buns.
The program is available to hundreds of employers through partnerships with benefits brokers and other channels. Revenue is not disclosed, but the number of covered members has increased by 30-fold this year and keeps growing, Scantland said.
AndHealth treats migraine and autoimmune conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis. Patients go through a series of tests and meet with a physician via telehealth, then have frequent in-app contact with health coaches, dietitians and other experts to coach them in the behavior changes needed to eliminate the root cause of the condition. The approach is not possible with a single in-office visit to a specialist, Scantland said.
"Since we first started treating patients, what really has propelled us is the outcomes," Scantland said. "The thing that makes it easy to come to work here is every one of those patients that achieved something that you just know they weren't going to achieve otherwise."
