Sharecare Selects Carrum as its Preferred Centers of Excellence Partner for Cancer and Specialty Care

With healthcare costs soaring, organizations are focused on ways to rein in healthcare spend while improving the quality of care and outcomes for their populations. Among U.S. employers, the Business Group on Health 2025 Employer Healthcare Strategy Survey projects an 8% increase in care costs over the next year, adding up to a more than 50% cumulative increase since 2017, the highest rate in a decade. This inflationary trend is expected to continue, with employers absorbing much of the increase as they have in recent years while simultaneously overwhelmed by the array of point solutions and difficulty of accurately assessing their ROI.

In an effort to help large employers, health plans, and health systems effectively address these challenges, Carrum Health has forged a partnership aimed at simplifying administration and improving member engagement with Sharecare, the health tech company that helps to improve care quality, drive better outcomes, and lower costs across the healthcare ecosystem.

Through this partnership, Sharecare clients now can elect to procure and adopt Carrum’s full suite of value-based Centers of Excellence (COE) networks for surgical care, including musculoskeletal (MSK), bariatric, cardiovascular procedures, and more. Sharecare clients can also offer access to Carrum’s network of evidence-based substance use treatment centers for their members.

Through Sharecare, they also can gain streamlined access to the nation’s largest cancer COE network in the country: Carrum Cancer Care, which covers virtually all cancers with little or zero out-of-pocket costs for members. Carrum’s carefully vetted and curated high-value network—offering local access with 400 facilities and growing—features transparent and predictable pricing through the first and only cancer treatment bundles in the commercial market that are all-inclusive, covering everything from facility charges to physician fees to the cost of drugs, which are often excessively marked up in the traditional fee-for-service model

“Employers, health plans, and health systems are rightfully concerned about spiking care costs and a surfeit of confusing point solutions, while employees, members, and patients don’t quite fully understand their health benefits or how to navigate our complex health system,” said Brent Nicholson, Carrum Health Co-Founder and Chief Growth Officer. “Integrating our network with Sharecare’s comprehensive benefits navigation and care management platform enables easy access, improved member engagement and therefore improved outcomes.”