Uber Health
Guardian's members with disabilities will receive an Uber voucher for medical appointments.
Some leaders say AI will improve a massively inefficient, overpriced and difficult-to-access healthcare system, while others anticipate AI’s potential for earlier, more accurate diagnosis.
The partnership will allow plan members to use health benefit cards for Uber, in addition to other healthcare expenses and food products.
Caregivers can order rides and deliveries for their care recipients and pay for the service using the care receiver's health benefits.
The company will use Socially Determined's analytics data to help Medicaid, Medicare Advantage and commercial insurance patients access food, prescriptions and transportation.
The announcement comes just two months after the company announced it would add same-day prescription-delivery services to its platform.
The additional service allows users, including providers and healthcare plans, to manage prescription delivery from pharmacies within their service area.
The collaboration to deliver the oral antiviral therapy for COVID-19 will launch in the coming weeks.
The service is now available in some markets, but the companies plan to expand to additional cities.
At a recent gathering in Boston, leaders from Walmart, CVS, Verily and Uber Health discussed how their organizations' skills help them "meet consumers where they are."