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Aligned Marketplace founder and CEO Patrick Nelli recently joined Siobhan Nolan Mangini and Bob Kocher of Venrock on their podcast, Running Through Walls, for a conversation about his path to founding Aligned, what advanced primary care actually looks like in practice, and where he believes the industry is headed.

The most expensive year of someone's health is usually the one right after the year nobody was paying attention.‍ Most employers know this. What they don't have is a practical way to act on it.

Aligned Marketplace has raised $20 million led by Venrock. Engaged members at a Fortune 500 employer cost 12 percent less than a risk-matched benchmark in year one, measured independently.

Hear Aligned CEO, Patrick Nelli, talk about the gap between what healthcare actually costs and what finance teams plan for.

Employers can offer independent primary care to employees at no cost to the member. Here's why that matters, and how to implement it. This change can reduce employer healthcare costs and make employer health spend more predictable while protecting access to advanced primary care.

In a contributed article for Employee Benefit News, Aligned Marketplace Founder and CEO Patrick Nelli examines how lessons from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Innovation Center, combined with provisions of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, could provide employers with a blueprint for improving access to advanced and direct primary care.

Visana Health joins Aligned Marketplace to deliver outcomes-based women's health care for Fortune 500 employers. Read the full press release.

Discover why Barbara Starfield's framework isn't enough. Learn how Cost, Convenience, and Communication transform primary care engagement and lower healthcare costs.

Aligned Marketplace and Arbital Health partner together to adjudicate Aligned Marketplace's value-based care contracts between self-insured employers and primary care groups

Aligned Marketplace picks up additional funding to expand advanced primary care, employer partnerships

Aligned Marketplace Increases Total Seed Funding to $11M, Expands Advanced Primary Care and Employer Partnerships, Including with 7-Eleven. The national advanced primary care marketplace for employers provides access in all 50 states, with 3,000 clinics located within driving distance of >80% of the U.S. population.

An interview with an Aligned Marketplace employer revealed past struggles to incorporate Advanced Primary Care (APC) into their benefits package. Despite APC's potential, they couldn't find a comprehensive solution that met their needs—until they discovered Aligned.

A case study in setting new engagement standards with 31% of eligible members choosing to enroll in the first few weeks

Aligned Marketplace Launches to Make Advanced Primary Care More Accessible to Employers. The company closed a $8 million seed investment co-led by A* Capital and Maverick Ventures

Fee-for-service rewards volume, not outcomes. Learn how value-based primary care realigns incentives, reduces total cost of care, and why self-insured employers are making it the centerpiece of their health strategy.

Aligned Marketplace's mission is healthspan, which refers to the period in an individual's life characterized by good health and well-being, free from chronic diseases and debilitating conditions. It's not solely about the number of years one lives, but about the quality of life experienced during those years. Self-insured employers investing in healthspan paves the way for companies to thrive with a healthy workforce.

A new approach to primary care, Advanced Primary Care, could solve some of America's toughest healthcare problems...but only if enough people can access it. That is why Aligned Marketplace is putting Advanced Primary Care at the center of our business model.

Discover how Aligned Marketplace is addressing the challenges in self-insured U.S. healthcare by expanding affordable, accessible, and high-quality advanced primary care for American employees and their families. Learn about the promise and disconnect in the employer-sponsored healthcare market.

Self-insured employers want better healthcare. Employees need it. Independent APC doctors are ready to deliver it. Learn why Aligned Marketplace was built to connect all three.