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Move your cancer strategy to what matters—for our public servants and their families.

Like you, we care for those who care for us.
By investing in their health across the cancer care continuum, you enable better lives throughout earlier detection and end-to-end support, that speeds time to diagnosis, and improves outcomes while reducing costs.

Today’s cancer care options don’t solve the root causes of high cancer cost. And they don’t deliver better outcomes.

65% of individuals

over the age of 21 are behind on at least one recommended cancer screening 1

40% of diagnoses

could have been prevented or caught sooner.2

5x higher expenses

for survivors compared to members without a history of cancer 3

1 in 3
survivors

don’t receive follow-up post treatment, even though they’re at higher risk for a new or returning cancer.

Spotlight impact: Colorectal cancer speed to diagnosis

Color’s impact across the cancer journey starts with speed and direct care. The result is better adherence, more screenings, faster times to follow up, better management, and overall smoother transitions back to health. See the difference between Stage I discovery and Stage IV impact.

Colorectal cancer detected: Stage 1

46.2

# of days of work missed

$79k

Financial burden (Y1 cancer-related costs)

90.1%

5 year survival likelihood

Colorectal cancer detected: Stage 4

106

of work days missed

$272k

Financial burden (Y1 cancer-related costs)

14.6%

5 year survival likelihood

Color in action: Delivering direct care for access, speed, and outcomes

Improve Treatment

55%

reduction in time to diagnosis and treatment

$8k

average savings from guidelines-based treatment

$20k

average savings per each avoided hospitalization

Transition Back to Health

100%

of participants receive survivorship care plan

36%

reduction in depressive symptoms

$175k

average savings per prevented cancer recurrence

Public employees who dedicate themselves to our communities deserve a cancer care program that delivers for them as people, before they’re patients. Color begins at risk assessment and delivers early detection, diagnosis, and treatment, all the way through survivorship.

Detect early

The right screenings at the right time change outcomes. Developed and led by oncologists, Color’s early detection program is proven to:

Create personal, evidence-based screening plans that drive adherence and earlier cancer detection

Reach and engage hard-to-reach populations with flexible screening options—at home, onsite, or through our national imaging network relationships

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Manage clinical next steps after abnormal screens to speed time to diagnosis and begin treatment quicker

Deliver 30–50% cost savings from day one through guidelines-based screenings, imaging, and care

Improve treatment

Integrating seamlessly with local care teams, Color’s clinical direct care team is able to:

Make actual clinician-level referrals, order tests, write scripts, prescribe treatments, order labs and imaging, and provide a continuous connection to care

Initiate missing diagnosistc workups to get the right treatment plan in place, faster

Provide 24/7 oncologist level support to reduce avoidable emergency visits

Tackle financial toxicity with advocacy and innovative reimbursement accounts

Make your benefit wallet deliver the value you deserve by creating cross-referrals between important health benefits

Support survivors back to health

Color’s survivorship program helps lower the risk of recurrence and supports members with their ongoing clinical needs:

Manage 5-year survivorship care to monitor recurrence and manage long-term side effects

Offer personalized nutrition, mental health, fertility, and cardiovascular support, plus lifestyle plans tailored to survivors’ unique needs

Support leaves and return-to-work with resources for both members and supervisors

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High-access screening, in partnership with the American Cancer Society

We’ve partnered with the American Cancer Society to make cancer screening and follow-on support more convenient, more compassionate, and more comprehensive for your members – from the most trusted name in cancer.

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Cancer doesn’t care where your employees live–but we do.

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References

  1. Early Detection Survey, Prevent Cancer Foundation
  2. Measuring the quality of colorectal cancer screening: the importance of follow-up, National Library of Medicine
  3. Trends in Healthcare Expenditures among Adults in the United States by Cancer Diagnosis Status, 2008–2016: A Cross-Sectional Study, NIH