The Governance Layer for Employer Health Plans

Control how specialty care enters your health plan — before claims are created.

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The Shift

The Key Decision
Happens Before The Claim

HealCo governs how specialty care enters the plan—before the claim is created.

Today

Manage the claim after care

Cost is reviewed only once care has already happened, and the claim has already been created.

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The Solution

Govern the entry before the claim

Governance is applied at the entry point — before a pathway is chosen, and before a claim exists.

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WORKS WITH YOUR EXISTING PLAN

Nothing about your current plan gets replaced

Your broker stays. Your carrier stays. Your TPA stays.

A Governed Health System Without Walls

We replace passive plan administration with active governance.

Every referral, pathway, and site-of-service decision is controlled — not left to chance.

Tier 1

Core DPC

  • Entry point for governed care
  • Unlimited $0 visits with independent physicians.
  • Fully HSA-qualified under new 2026 regulations.
  • The Foundation of the Plan.

Tier 2

Specialty Bundles

  • Transparent, pre-negotiated pricing for imaging, surgery, and specialist care.
  • Dynamic routing ensures no surprise bills.
  • The Cost Control Engine.

Tier 3

Risk Pool Options

  • Employers choose the structure that fits their risk strategy:
  • Self-Funded (ASO)
  • Level-Funded (Surplus refunds)
  • Captive Layers
  • All supported by stop-loss protection.
BUILD PATHWAYS

Build governed pathways

Define how care enters and moves through your plan.

Define

Establish clinical criteria and pathway steps.

Configure

Set provider supply, approved options, and capacity.

Govern

Apply rules, benefits, and incentives that guide decisions.

Activate

Publish the governed pathway with confidence.

Execute

Maestro applies the pathway at the point of entry.

Maestro: Execute every governed pathway

Maestro turns plan governance into action — routing members, enforcing pathways, and recording each decision back to Decision Desk.

Governed Routing: Executes pathways configured through Decision Desk.

Pathway Enforcement: Applies employer-defined rules, clinical criteria and approved care options at entry.

PPO Fallback: Preserves the existing network when a governed pathway doesn’t apply.

Decision Logging: Records routing actions back to the governance record.

Every Decision Leaves a Record

See the decisions, actions, and evidence behind governed care.

Evidence
OUR IMPACT

Governance in
Practice

Real-world evidence from HealCo's operating experience—built through years of care delivery, network collaboration, and governance in action.

HealCo is a member of NVIDIA Inception

36+
MONTHS ACTIVE
5,000+
CARE ENCOUNTERS
Hundreds
PROVIDER CONTRACTS & BUNDLES INITIATED

HealCo is a member of NVIDIA Inception

Employers Success Stories

COO, Restaurant Chain

We saved 28% in year one with HealCo — and our employees now get $0 visits with no surprise bills. It’s the first time I’ve felt in control of healthcare costs.

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Physician Owner

~ Multispecialty Practice

I manage a 100+ employee practice and have never seen a greater win-win for docs and employers. We direct contract, have predictable revenue flow from community partners, while decreasing our own employee health premiums.

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SVP, Total Rewards

~ Fortune 500 Retail Company

HealCo is the only model we’ve seen actually reduce ER utilization at scale — without compromising care. Their decentralized care nodes, omnichannel virtual access, and support of independent doctors let us meet employees where they are, not where the system is

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COO, Restaurant Chain

We saved 28% in year one with HealCo — and our employees now get $0 visits with no surprise bills. It’s the first time I’ve felt in control of healthcare costs.

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Physician Owner

~ Multispecialty Practice

I manage a 100+ employee practice and have never seen a greater win-win for docs and employers. We direct contract, have predictable revenue flow from community partners, while decreasing our own employee health premiums.

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SVP, Total Rewards

~ Fortune 500 Retail Company

HealCo is the only model we’ve seen actually reduce ER utilization at scale — without compromising care. Their decentralized care nodes, omnichannel virtual access, and support of independent doctors let us meet employees where they are, not where the system is

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COO, Restaurant Chain

We saved 28% in year one with HealCo — and our employees now get $0 visits with no surprise bills. It’s the first time I’ve felt in control of healthcare costs.

View Case Study

SVP, Total Rewards

~ Fortune 500 Retail Company

HealCo is the only model we’ve seen actually reduce ER utilization at scale — without compromising care. Their decentralized care nodes, omnichannel virtual access, and support of independent doctors let us meet employees where they are, not where the system is

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Physician Owner

~ Multispecialty Practice

I manage a 100+ employee practice and have never seen a greater win-win for docs and employers. We direct contract, have predictable revenue flow from community partners, while decreasing our own employee health premiums.

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~ Hospitalist, HealCo-Aligned Provider

Provider

“HealCo let me participate in direct care without forcing me into an all-or-nothing decision.”

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~ Executive Director, Provider Association

Provider Association

“HealCo helped us turn an association plan into a care network — not just an insurance product.”

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~ CFO, 150-Employee Company

Professional Services

“HealCo didn’t disrupt our plan — it made it smarter.”

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~ Benefits Lead, Captive Member Employer

Captive Employer

“For the first time, being in a captive actually changed behavior — not just accounting.”

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~ COO, Multi-Location Restaurant Chain

Hospitality Employer

“We saved 28% in year one with HealCo — and our employees now get $0 visits with no surprise bills. It’s the first time I’ve felt in control of healthcare costs.”

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Frequently asked questions

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Does HealCo replace the TPA or PPO?

No. HealCo overlays the existing health plan infrastructure.
The TPA continues to administer the plan and process claims, while the PPO remains available as the fallback network. HealCo adds a pre-service governance layer that determines how care should enter the existing system before a claim is created.
The TPA processes what happened. HealCo governs what should happen next.

Does implementation require a plan change?

Not necessarily.
HealCo is designed to begin without replacing the existing health plan, TPA, carrier, or PPO.
An employer can start with a defined specialty-care pathway while preserving its existing administration and network. HealCo adds the governance and routing layer around that infrastructure.
Over time, an employer may choose to modify plan design, incentives, direct contracts, bundles, or other components to strengthen pathway adherence, but replacing the underlying plan is not a prerequisite to begin.
HealCo changes how the existing plan is used before it requires changing what the plan is.

 What does the TPA need to build?

Very little by design.
HealCo layers into the existing administration rather than requiring the TPA to rebuild it. Initial deployment requires the agreed eligibility and claims-data exchange for the account, while the TPA continues its existing eligibility, claims, payment, and network functions.
Initial exchange can use standard batch/SFTP workflows.

How does HealCo work with an existing broker?

HealCo strengthens the incumbent broker relationship rather than replacing it.
The broker remains the employer's benefits advisor and relationship owner. HealCo provides an additional infrastructure layer that can be incorporated into the employer's existing benefits architecture.
Sold through the incumbent stack, not around it.

How does governed routing work?

Governed routing turns an employer's healthcare strategy into an executable pathway before care begins.
The employer establishes the governance rules and approved pathways. When a member needs care, Maestro executes the appropriate entry pathway—such as primary care, imaging, a specialist, women's health, pharmacy, a bundle, or the PPO fallback.
The routing decision is recorded so the employer can evaluate whether care followed the governed pathway.

What evidence does HealCo create?

HealCo creates a record of the governance decision, the routing action and, where data is available, what happened afterward.
The evidence is designed to show:
What pathway was establishedWhy it was selectedWhat routing decision was madeWhether the member followed the governed pathwayHow encounter and claims activity corresponded to that decisionThe goal is an attributable, exportable governance record created as decisions occur—not reconstructed after claims have already been incurred.

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