Oscar Health, Inc. Announces the Launch of its New ‘MyIdentity’ Functionality
July 13, 2021 at 09:42 am EDT
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Oscar Health, Inc. announced the launch of its new ‘MyIdentity’ functionality as a part of its ongoing efforts to ensure that members get the access to care they need in an equitable way. This new functionality, which is available nationwide, allows all members – including those who identify as transgender or non-binary – to freely input their name, pronouns, and gender identity in the Oscar app. For many people in the transgender and non-binary community, the identifiers that appear on their birth certificates, and by extension in their medical records, do not reflect their lived experience. A study by the National Center for Transgender Equality shows that discrimination and misgendering have led to nearly a quarter of transgender people in the United States reporting they’ve avoided going to the doctor when they were sick because they were afraid of being mistreated. MyIdentity empowers all members to provide Oscar with information – including their first and last name, pronouns, and gender (as distinguished from their sex assigned at birth) – that accurately reflect their identity. These identifiers will then be used by the Oscar team when members are greeted upon logging into their digital accounts and whenever engaging with the Oscar Care Teams. Members are presented with this feature during onboarding, and can also access it at any time via settings on the web.
Oscar Health, Inc. is a health insurance company, which has built a full stack technology platform focused on serving its members. It offers individual and family, and small group plans, and +Oscar, its full stack technology platform, to others within the provider and payor space. Its individual market primarily consists of policies purchased by individuals and families through health insurance marketplaces. The small group market consists of employees of companies with up to 50 full-time workers in various states and up to 100 full-time workers in select states. It offers health plans in the individual market on exchange and off-exchange under the five metal plan categories, such as catastrophic, bronze, silver, gold, and platinum. These plans differ based on the size of the monthly premium and the level of sharing of medical costs between Oscar and its members. Oscar brings insurance products to the market to meet various healthcare needs of consumers.