The Pitch
Clear Health Analytics empowers consumers to make smarter health insurance decisions by providing clear and unbiased cost comparison information. Their web-based tool, also available through EnrollAmerica, estimates typical annual health care usage for 27 common illnesses and chronic diseases, ultimately providing the consumer with an estimate on out-of-pocket costs for each potential health plan.
Kathryn Wollan & Jennifer Sclar
The Entrepreneur
Kathryn Wollan leads operations and consumer-focused design at Clear Health Analytics. She was a panelist for A Look Into the Crystal Ball: Innovation, Opportunity and the Future of Enrollment, Enroll America’s State of Enrollment conference plenary panel. Prior to her work with Clear Health Analytics, Kathryn was historic preservationist, and has over a decade of experience in public policy and cultural heritage planning and conservation. She has worked in both the public and private sectors and has expertise managing large government projects. With her background in interdisciplinary design efforts, she has a particular interest in human-centered design, and is responsible for making sure that the unbiased, data-driven information CHA is creating is communicated to consumers with clarity and simplicity. Kathryn is a graduate of Barnard College and holds a M.S. from University of Vermont.
Jennifer Sclar leads consumer-directed product development for Clear Health Analytics. She recently served on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Health Plan Choice Decision Support Advisory Group and was a TedMed panelist. Prior to her work with CHA, Jennifer spent many years prosecuting civil cases on behalf of consumers and shareholders against large financial institutions, pharmaceutical companies, and health insurance companies. She is passionate in her desire to give consumers access to the information they need in ways that are useful and intuitive. Jennifer is a magna cum laude graduate of Barnard College and a graduate of Columbia Law School.
Impact
Clear Health Analytics partnered with national nonprofit Enroll America to embed software on 4,500 community partners’ sites that will empower consumers to make smarter health insurance decisions and reduce decision time for health insurance enrollees.