Healthcare with Advantages - Personalized Health Coaching

At Knew Health, we care deeply about our Community. This means empowering our Members and future Members with the information they need to make the best decisions for themselves and their families.

We understand that there's no one-size-fits-all solution when it comes to health and wellness. Because of this, we offer personalized health coaching services to help guide you along your wellness journey.

Our health coaches are trained to help you create positive, sustainable, health-supporting changes in your life. Think of our coaches as your personal wellness partner for all topics related to your health – everything from nutrition, movement, and sleep to daily routines and environment.

With our coaches, your health is viewed through a more holistic lens than in traditional medical settings, so all aspects of your life are taken into consideration. This includes your emotional wellness, your sleep patterns, your nutrition and movement routine, and more.

A health coach plays a complementary role to your medical doctor – and this can be incredibly valuable.

Consider this: in a typical 15-minute appointment with your primary care provider, you're unlikely to explore topics like nutrition, fitness, emotional, and mental health. Doctors rarely have time to check in about how you're sleeping, moving, and nourishing your body. Because time is limited, you'll focus on your most pressing concerns, like an illness or injury. While physicians can address your immediate needs, this time constraint means they may not identify patterns in your lifestyle that could be impacting your health.

This creates a significant gap, because your lifestyle – including your sleep habits, nutrition choices, and emotional state – profoundly influences your health. When unhealthy lifestyle patterns go unaddressed, they can develop into long-term health conditions, which means more stress, illness, and expenses down the road.

For example, we know that inadequate sleep can weaken the immune system. Your doctor will be able to treat your recurring infections or illnesses, but without sufficient time, they might not uncover why you keep becoming ill in the first place. If your doctor could explore your sleep health, they might suggest solutions for that underlying issue, thus helping your immune system stay strong and fight off infections before you become seriously ill.

Our health coaches bridge that essential gap in the healthcare system that most physicians don't have time to address.

Our Medical Cost Sharing model means that we're there to help with eligible Medical Needs when they arise – but we want to help you maintain your wellness so you can avoid emergency situations in the first place. As such, our health coaches help you embrace a holistic approach to your wellness so that you can support your body's natural healing abilities.

A health coach is a trained professional who will help you identify and achieve health and wellness goals that will benefit you for years to come. As a Knew Health Member, you'll enjoy complimentary one-on-one coaching with our trained health coaches.

While they are not doctors, they are equipped to help you make empowering decisions for your mental and physical wellness. For example, they can help you discover:

• Which aspects of your lifestyle could benefit from attention
• How to enhance those aspects of your lifestyle
• What your main challenges are when it comes to maintaining healthy habits
• How to set meaningful wellness goals and create action steps toward those goals
• How to establish nourishing routines
• How to utilize the benefits of your Knew Health Membership to your advantage
• When it's appropriate to see a doctor or specialist

With your Knew Health Coach, you can explore:

• Your sleep patterns, bedtime routine, and sleep environment
• Your nutrition choices and eating patterns
• Your movement routine and fitness goals
• Your mental and emotional well-being
• Your self-care practices
• Your professional or relationship aspirations
• Or any other aspect of life that influences your health

For instance, if you're managing anxiety, you might discover that movement helps you – but maintaining a regular exercise routine can be challenging. Your coach might help you identify forms of movement you genuinely enjoy so that you're more likely to stick with them. Together with your health coach, you can establish movement goals and discover how to create a routine so that exercise becomes an automatic and enjoyable part of your day. During your next session with your health coach, you can review whether you achieved those goals and determine your next steps.

Having conversations about your health gives you dedicated time to reflect and assess your life. If you lead a busy lifestyle, you might sometimes put your health on the back burner. These sessions provide you with space to consider your health and how to prioritize your wellness.

The beauty of being human is that each of us is unique. Our bodies, needs, and lifestyles differ. For this reason, generic health and wellness advice doesn't serve most people well. By providing you with one-on-one attention, your health coach can help you discover how to create positive changes that work specifically for you.

How exactly can our personalized health coaching support you? Here are several benefits of this approach.

A cookie-cutter approach to health and wellness simply doesn't work. Health coaches understand that you are the expert of your own life and body, and they trust you to establish the right goals for yourself. Their role isn't to judge or criticize you, but to provide support and suggest positive changes to explore together. It's a flexible system that works with you and empowers you.

It can be challenging to hold ourselves accountable for the changes we want and need to make in our lives. Health coaches serve as the perfect support system to keep you honest about your goals and progress. Because you set the schedule of when you meet, you'll be able to establish some medium- and long-term goals alongside your coach and discuss whether you've achieved them or not.

The focus is on long-term health and wellness, not just quick fixes. As mentioned, physicians rarely have the time to discuss lifestyle changes with you, let alone follow up on those goals. But, by making positive changes with your health coach supporting you, you can create sustainable improvements and work toward protecting your health for the future.

Not only do health coaches keep you accountable – they celebrate with you! It's so important to have someone to share victories with, and it's especially rewarding to receive positive feedback from someone who has a comprehensive understanding of your journey to date. Celebrating your health wins, big or small, is essential for creating lasting lifestyle changes.

Your health coach is not a doctor, but they are a valuable source of knowledge. As trained coaches, they can guide you on how to set and achieve your goals. They can also direct you toward resources if you need more information or a healthcare practitioner's opinion. If you have concerning symptoms, they can recommend that you see a doctor.

We're exceptionally proud of our health coaching services, and there are numerous other services that we offer with comprehensive health advantages that will help you work toward a healthier, happier life, manage medical expenses, and improve your overall well-being.

In addition to Health Coaching, we offer Life Coaching services. Our Life Coaches will help you establish goals and create actionable plans so that you can achieve them. Whether you want to focus on advancing in your career or improving your personal finances, our Life Coaches can guide you in working toward your aspirations.

Many people incorporate dietary supplements as part of their daily wellness routine. Supplements can be particularly helpful for those with deficiencies, limited diets, or certain health conditions. Through Knew Health, our Members receive generous discounts on supplements.

When it comes to understanding your health and identifying potential issues, blood work provides valuable insights beyond guesswork. Regular blood work can help you identify the root cause of persistent symptoms and detect issues before they develop into illness.

Unfortunately, blood work can be quite expensive. We offer our Members free and discounted blood tests. For example, you can access the extremely important fasting insulin test at no cost through our lab partner.

We all understand that movement is beneficial for the mind, body, and spirit. To support you on your fitness journey, we offer you access to fitness resources like virtual yoga and meditation through New York's Breathe Yoga Studios and qigong with The Chi Center's Master Mingtong Gu.

Recent years have shown us how valuable telemedicine can be. Moving forward, telemedicine will continue to be helpful for those in rural areas, those unable to leave their homes, and anyone who can't access in-person care.

Our service enables you to request an appointment and speak with a licensed physician in your state. If necessary, they can even prescribe medication. This is a 24/7 service that you can access from the comfort of your own home.

Did you know that many medical bills can be negotiated? Unfortunately, bill negotiation can be a time-consuming and intimidating process.

Our experts negotiate bills on your behalf so that you don't have to. This reduces your expenses and helps our entire cost-sharing Community. We're proud to share that, to date, we've achieved an average of 49% reduction in medical bills through our negotiation service.

Some of life's most stressful moments come from things we can't anticipate, like accidents and illnesses. That's why Knew Health has created the Medical Cost Sharing Community, where Members share in each other's eligible Medical Needs to reduce the financial burden on everyone. Knew Health provides peace of mind with no sharing maximums or caps, and our Community has shared over $33 million in medical expenses to date.

With Knew Health, you'll experience peace of mind through our simple, transparent cost-sharing model. You have the freedom to choose the Membership that's right for you within an inclusive Community. You'll also receive access to Health Coaching and a comprehensive range of other services.

We're not just about Medical Cost Sharing or Bill Negotiation services – we want to enrich the lives of our Members and help them create sustainable, positive changes in their lives. Medical Cost Sharing through Knew Health is not health insurance. Experience it for yourself and become a Member today.