Delivering Life-Changing Fertility, Family Building, and Women’s Health Benefits with Dr. Janet Choi of Progyny

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This is Episode #120 and you’ll hear Co-Hosts Dr. Alyssa Dweck & Rachel Braun Scherl interview Dr. Janet Choi, Chief Medical Officer of Progyny. Watch the video episode on YouTube and listen to the audio episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and your other favorite podcast spots – follow and leave a 5-star review if you’re enjoying the show!

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Delivering Life-Changing Fertility, Family Building, and Women’s Health Benefits with Dr. Janet Choi of Progyny

This week’s guest is a leader of a company that’s a huge victory for womankind. Dr. Janet Choi is the Chief Medical Officer of Progyny, who provides comprehensive fertility, family building, and women’s health benefits for a global workforce. Hear how they’ve expanded their family building benefits over the years, the types of fertility benefits they offer, how they sell these women’s health benefits to employers, the impressive feedback from physicians in their network, and how they find healthcare providers to work with.

Tune in to this episode to spread the availability of life-changing fertility, family building, and women’s health benefits. Here’s a small sample of what you’ll hear in this episode:

• What Progyny does and how it differs from a traditional carrier or benefits administrator

• How the Progyny Care Advocate model improves the member and provider experience

• Why employer HR decisions have an outsized impact on healthcare outcomes

• How Progyny tracks and reports IVF success rates and multiple pregnancy reductions in real time

• What Progyny's expanded women's health platform covers, from postpartum to perimenopause

Show Notes

• Delivering Life-Changing Fertility, Family Building, and Women’s Health Benefits with Dr. Janet Choi of Progyny

  • [1:07] Welcome to Business of the V

  • [1:51] Introducing Dr. Janet Choi and Progyny

  • [2:19] What type of platform is Progyny?

  • [2:48] Progyny's origin story and 10-year anniversary

  • [4:10] What is the Progyny Care Advocate (PCA)?

  • [5:09] How Progyny expanded from fertility into full women's health

  • [6:00] Why Dr. Choi joined Progyny after seeing its impact as a network provider

  • [9:47] How Progyny administers benefits without delivering medical services directly

  • [11:38] Why HR leaders have an outsized impact on healthcare outcomes

  • [12:36] How Progyny avoids rigid pre-authorization and stepwise therapy requirements

  • [15:17] How Progyny credentials its provider network

  • [18:37] What outcomes data does Progyny track and report?

  • [19:58] Progyny's multiple pregnancy rate and what it means for maternal health and cost containment

  • [21:26] Progyny's menopause solution: nurse-led navigation through perimenopause and beyond

  • [22:47] Menopause symptom improvement outcomes among Progyny members

  • [23:46] How Progyny's pregnancy program integrates doula care and lactation support

  • [25:12] How Progyny recruits and builds its provider network

  • [26:10] Progyny's growth trajectory and its status as a unicorn in women's health

  • [28:29] Learn more about Dr. Janet Choi and Progyny

  • [28:58] Subscribe to Business of the V and learn more at BusinessOfTheV.com 

What is Business of the V?

Dr. Alyssa Dweck & Rachel Braun Scherl are here to introduce you to the most fascinating inventors, investors, thought leaders, and healthcare professionals who are in the Business of the V. If you are a woman, know a woman, have a business, or care about your v health and wellness, this is the podcast for you.

Who are Dr. Alyssa Dweck & Rachel Braun Scherl?

Dr. Alyssa Dweck is a gynecologist, surgeon, and author. She’s an expert on V health who explores what’s on other women’s minds when it comes to periods, hormones, breasts, butts, and sex.

Rachel Braun Scherl is a marketing strategist, business builder, and vagipreneur - a person in the business of women’s sexual and reproductive health. It’s complicated!