Type Private Genre Medical Website pager.com | Industry Healthcare Headquarters New York City Founded 2014 | |
Founder Gaspard de Dreuzy, Philip Eytan, Osar Salazar | ||
Pager is a private company headquartered in New York City and founded in 2014. Pager develops, markets, and operates a mobile-app-based that allows users to request board-certified doctors to a specified location. By reducing the overhead costs seen in traditional healthcare settings, the company lowers the cost of quality care for their users by a significant amount and charges a flat-fee for services.
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The company's network of doctors have emergency care specialities and are equipped to handle most urgent care needs. Pager is part of a growing trend of technological advancements in the healthcare field and is in the process of working to accept insurance. It is currently an out-of-network provider. The company seeks to help decompress emergency rooms and keep patients out of the hospital unless absolutely necessary.
History
The company was founded in 2014 by Gaspard de Dreuzy, Philip Eytan, and Oscar Salazar. Prior to Pager, de Dreuzy started several gaming companies and the online broker Kapitall, Eytan became a founding investor in tech startups (like Livestream) after a career on Wall Street, and Salazar was part of the founding team of Uber before joining TPG-owned Ride. The company's Chief Medical Officer, Richard Boxer, also formerly held the title at Teladoc, one of the largest telemedicine companies.
Pager derives inspiration from France's SOS Médecins but uses the "courtesy of today's mobile and scheduling software." The company raised $4.5 million in its first seed.
The company has been grouped into the wave of new startups trying to become the "Uber for X" and has been labeled the "Uber for Doctors." Pager's General Manager Toby Hervey has expressed the company is responding to the need for convenience and the idea of 'coming to you now' is ingrained into the New York City DNA. On October 23, 2014, Uber and the company partnered in New York City in UberHEALTH and brought free on-demand flu prevention with the help of Vaccine Finder.
The company has been featured in publications such as the Wall Street Journal, Inc Magazine, Huffington Post, and more. Plus, it has been on news segments from WNBC, Wall Street Journal Live, and WABC.
Services
Pager's doctors are board-certified with emergency specialities coming from hospital affiliations such as Beth Israel Medical Center, Lenox Hill Hospital, and Richmond University Medical Center. The company's doctors can treat most urgent care needs and list examples ranging from treating bronchitis to lacerations.
Atypical to most healthcare practices, Pager charges a flat-fee of $50 for first-time visits and $200 after with services including strep testing, stitches, and first-round of prescriptions.