SAN FRANCISCO & ST. LOUIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Castlight Health, Inc. (NYSE: CSLT) a leader in enterprise healthcare management (EHM) and Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Missouri today announced a strategic relationship to help employers and their employees lower costs, improve outcomes, and increase benefits satisfaction. During the initial three-year term of the agreement, local brand will provide its commercial members in Missouri access to Castlight’s innovative cost and quality decision-support tools on Anthem.com , which will be rolled out to members over the term of the contract. The companies will also jointly market Castlight’s solutions to Anthem’s customer base in Missouri.
“Anthem is committed to delivering innovative technologies for our members,” said Steven Martenet, president of Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Missouri. “Transparency is a critical component of providing healthcare consumers access to the resources they need to make informed choices. This relationship will give our members more support than ever by providing easy to understand health care cost and quality information which can help drive employee engagement, lower costs, and lead to more satisfaction with healthcare benefits overall.”
In addition to making available Castlight’s core transparency tool, the Anthem Plan in Missouri will provide its commercial customers with a simple path to premium Castlight enterprise healthcare management (EHM) solutions, which can help these organizations optimize their benefits management strategy.
“Castlight is deeply honored to collaborate with Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Missouri in this endeavor. Our relationship represents a major advance in bringing innovative technologies to employers and employees that will help them lower their healthcare costs, and improve medical outcomes,” said Giovanni Colella, M.D., co-founder and chief executive officer at Castlight Health. “We are confident that this collaboration will further accelerate the adoption of our EHM solutions in the market.”
About Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Missouri
In Missouri (excluding 30 counties in the Kansas City area) Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield is the trade name for RightCHOICE® Managed Care, Inc. (RIT), Healthy Alliance® Life Insurance Company (HALIC), and HMO Missouri, Inc. RIT and certain affiliates administer non-HMO benefits underwritten by HALIC and HMO benefits underwritten by HMO Missouri, Inc. RIT and certain affiliates only provide administrative services for self-funded plans and do not underwrite benefits. Independent licensees of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association.
About Castlight Health
Castlight Health, Inc. (NYSE:CSLT) is a leader in Enterprise Healthcare Management. We believe great healthcare builds great business, and U.S. enterprises can gain control over the $620 billion spent annually on healthcare, transforming a crippling cost into a strategic business advantage. Recognized as a 2014 top software platform by the HR Technology Conference & Exposition, the Castlight Enterprise Healthcare Cloud enables employers to understand and manage their healthcare investments while helping employees make the best possible healthcare decisions. Castlight is a great place to work, honored with a Glassdoor Employees’ Choice award and recognized by Rock Health for Diversity in Leadership. For more information visit www.castlighthealth.com. Follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn and Like us on Facebook. Source: Castlight Health.
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This press release contains “forward-looking” statements that are based on Castlight’s beliefs and assumptions and on information currently available to Castlight’s management. Forward-looking statements include all statements other than statements of historical fact contained in this presentation, including information concerning the success of the expanded collaboration and the pace of adoption of Castlight’s solutions.
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