Haven Healthcare


Haven is a not-for-profit, healthcare-focused entity created through a joint venture by American companies Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase. The entity's stated goals are to improve healthcare services and lower costs for the three companies' employees, while making primary care easier to access, making prescription drugs more affordable and rendering insurance benefits easier to understand. The company is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, with offices in New York City.

History

2018

On January 30, 2018, Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase announced the formation of a company to provide low-cost and high quality healthcare for their more than million worldwide employees. JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon said at the time of the announcement, "The three of our companies have extraordinary resources, and our goal is to create solutions that benefit our U.S. employees, their families and, potentially, all Americans." And Berkshire Hathaway Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett said, Health care costs are "a hungry tapeworm on the American economy".
In June 2018, Atul Gawande was appointed as chief executive officer of Haven Healthcare.
In November 2018, Dana Gelb Safran, formerly of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, was hired as head of measurement. In December, the company hired David Smith, formerly of UnitedHealth Group's Optum subsidiary. His hiring resulted in Optum suing Smith for breach of contract, claiming that he had violated a non-compete restriction. In February 2019, District Judge Mark Wolf denied Optum's motion to stop Smith from working at Haven.

2019

In February 2019, Haven hired Serkan Kutan, former CTO of ZocDoc, as CTO.
In April 2019, the company announced opening a second location in the Union Square area of Manhattan and will focus on technology and engineering.
In May 2019, chief operating officer Jack Stoddard announced he was leaving his role after just nine months, noting that the commute between Philadelphia and Boston was taking him away from his family.
In November 2019, Haven announced they would partner with Cigna and CVS Health's Aetna to offer health plans to 30,000 JP Morgan workers in the states of Arizona and Ohio. Amazon will also be offering healthcare coverage to employees in Wisconsin, North Carolina, Utah, and Connecticut, in collaboration with an unnamed healthcare payer. The new wellness plan offers monthly financial rewards for meeting health and fitness goals.

2020

In May 2020, CEO Atul Gawande announced that he was leaving the company. COO Mitch Hetses took over the day-to-day operations while the company looked for a new CEO.