Visana Health Reports $3,429 Per-Member Savings for Health Plan and Employer Partners

MINNEAPOLIS—March 11,2026—Visana Health,a virtual medical home for women delivering whole-person care across all lifestages, today announced the results of a landmark total cost of care studyachieving statistically significant savings for commercially insured women.Independently validated by Optum Advisory, the study shows Visana’scomprehensive whole-person care model delivers a $3,429 reduction in totalcosts per member within six months. This is also the first study to showthat comprehensive care for women can shape medical expenditures and serve as astrategic cost-management lever for employers and health plans, rather than asupplemental benefit.

Women’s health is one ofthe largest cost categories for employers, health plans, and third-partybenefit administrators, on par with cardiometabolic and musculoskeletalconditions when viewed from a broad lens. Yet most of the care women receivetoday is fragmented, episodic, and focused on short-term reproductive needs,leading to delayed treatment and escalating to high-cost, invasiveinterventions. Costly surgeries are often used as first-line treatment forcomplex gynecologic conditions such as endometriosis and uterine fibroids,while women with chronic hormonal and metabolic conditions – such as polycysticovary syndrome (PCOS), menopause, thyroid disorders and weight-relatedconditions – are managed intermittently and often see multiple specialistsdespite requiring comprehensive, longitudinal care.

Against the backdrop ofrising costs and fragmented care, there is an urgent need for scalable caremodels that improve women’s health outcomes while bending the rapidly growingcost curve.

“These findings validatewhat Visana clinicians see every day: when women receive coordinated,longitudinal intervention for complex conditions, outcomes improve andavoidable utilization declines,” said Chevon Rariy, MD, Chief ClinicalInnovation Officer at Visana Health. “By organizing care around the whole person, rather thanisolated symptoms, we’re reducing unnecessary specialist visits and procedureswhile navigating patients toward higher-quality, more appropriate care. That’swhat drives both meaningful clinical improvement for women and measurable costsavings for health plans, employers and third-party benefits administrators.”

The savings were drivenprimarily by fewer high-cost facility visits, reduced specialty visits, lowertotal gynecologic spend, and better coordination of care across complexconditions.  

The retrospective studyanalyzed de-identified commercial claims data using a propensity score-matchedcohort design and a difference-in-differences framework to compare costs sixmonths before and after initiation of the Visana Health intervention. Patientsreceiving care through Visana Health were matched to similar individualsreceiving care from other providers, allowing the study to isolate the impactof Visana’s clinical model on the total cost of care. The analysis controlledfor baseline risk and utilization patterns, enabling attribution of savings toVisana’s care model rather than population differences.

"This landmark studydemonstrates that Visana's value-based care model delivers world-class clinicaloutcomes for women while generating measurable ROI for our health plan andemployer partners in just six months, a timeline that is virtually unprecedentedin healthcare," said Joe Connolly, Co-Founder and CEO of Visana Health.“For employers and health plans looking to broaden women’s health support, italso proves that investment in evidence-based women’s health is a clinicallysound and fiscally responsible strategy for managing utilization and spendingboth short-term and long-term.”

Visana Health supportswomen with complex conditions by delivering comprehensive, whole-person careacross life stages—from menstruation through midlife—rather than focusing onlyon maternity, fertility, or menopause. By addressing interconnected hormonal,metabolic, reproductive, and lifestyle needs in a coordinated way, Visana helpswomen better manage complex disease, achieve more sustainable health outcomes,and reduce costs. Visana’s unique mix of complex patients reflects the fullspectrum of women’s health needs, in contrast to women’s health organizationsthat focus on narrower, niche condition areas.

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The full report and survey methodology are available here.

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About the Study
The analysis was conducted by Optum Advisory using de-identified commercial claims data from May
30, 2023, through May 30, 2025. The retrospective study used a propensity score-matched cohort
design and a difference-in-differences framework to compare the total cost of care six months before
and after program initiation. Over six months, Visana Health participants experienced a $3,429
reduction in total allowed costs per member compared with controls, driven primarily by lower facility,
professional, and gynecologic spending.

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About Visana Health
Visana Health is a comprehensive virtual women’s health clinic delivering whole-person care across the
full spectrum of women’s health—far beyond the narrow scope of family building. Visana’s 50-state
medical clinic can diagnose and treat women’s health conditions from menstruation through
menopause, with deep expertise in high-cost, complex needs, including perimenopause, menopause,
endometriosis, and PCOS. Built on a value-based care model, Visana improves clinical outcomes and
access while reducing the total cost of care for health plan and employer partners. Learn more at
www.visanahealth.com.

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Media Contact
Visana Health
Samantha Pierce
716-553-3882
samantha@slprcomms.com

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