Get to know this growing cancer management company based in Nashville, Tennessee offering cancer benefits for employers and their employees throughout the United States.
What is Wheelhouse?
Wheelhouse is a cancer benefits company for employers to provide employees with essential support beginning with cancer prevention and continuing from a cancer diagnosis through survivorship.
A team of cancer experts under the Wheelhouse umbrella serves employees with a myriad of solutions to close the gaps in the traditional healthcare system in the cancer journey.
What services does Wheelhouse offer?
What makes Wheelhouse unique is that all services are offered under one roof. Cancer patients aren’t left to search for clinical and social services on their own. Top services that may be called upon during the cancer journey:
- Cancer Prevention Strategies: Our team of experts will take a deep dive into your population’s demographic and cancer health data.
- Cancer Navigation: Our cancer nurse navigators and care coordinators will partner with patients in your member population, educating them about their diagnosis and treatment options, coordinating their appointments, and triaging them to appropriate support services when needed.
- CancerAlly: CancerAllies use evidence-based strategies and methods to help cancer patients cope with their cancer diagnosis and live in the moment.
- Insurance Advocacy: Benefits advisors assist patients with prior authorizations, appeals, and benefits exceptions in the rare case payor policy does not align with the standard of care. We also provide support in completing supplemental documents such as cancer policies.
Doesn’t the hospital system already have support for cancer patients?
The United States healthcare system is very complex and the systems themselves compete against each other. The cancer patient often gets caught in the middle of these systems on top of navigating treatment and the healing process.
Common experiences in the cancer journey:
- Discouraged from getting a second opinion
- Confused by the diagnosis
- Unaware that other treatment options may exist than the one presented to them
- Dismissed by their doctor when presenting problematic symptoms
- Unsure of what questions would be important to ask their doctor
- Emotionally overwhelmed by the diagnosis and its effects on family members and/or caregivers
- Battles over insurance coverage for vital medical procedures
- Loneliness throughout the entire journey, even when surrounded by caring individuals
From our first-hand experience in being in the oncology space for a combined 20+ years, this list of experiences could continue. It’s not a straightforward path through the healthcare system.
Even if a hospital or specialist offers support services specific to cancer, these are often limited to a singular aspect of the cancer journey, such as addressing physical needs or issues pertaining only to their practice.
What can Wheelhouse do for employers & employees?
- Generate cost-savings for the employer and employee by catching duplicate procedures before they happen and advising the employee to visit in-network providers who meet gold standards of care.
- Create a bespoke cancer prevention strategy unique to the population to prevent cancer altogether.
- Boost productivity for the employer when the cancer patient is at work.
- Help cancer patients manage side effects from cancer treatment..
- Lower the risk of hospital readmission and emergency room visits.
- Offer guidance with medical bills and health insurance advocacy.
- Provide mental & emotional health support from diagnosis through survivorship.
- Assist the HR team and employee with a return-to-work plan that benefits both the employer and employee.
… and more!
