How we started

NavigatorMD, Inc. was founded in 2005 by Ernest Youngblood to address the widespread need to quickly and easily analyze health plan data. As a broker, Ernest had seen the consistent increase in health care costs and realized that organizations could save money if they monitored their plan data on a regular basis. So he put together the set of requirements that went into the creation of Design180^®. This was the first step toward realizing his long thought-out goal of creating the means to manage and control health costs for the benefit of both employers and employees by applying successful business management principles to health plan design and management.

Putting together a team of doctors, PhD's in pharmacy, community health and wellness professionals, benefit administrators, industry leaders, experienced business executives, owners and executives of Third Party Administrators and Wellness Companies along with a team of software development experts, Mr. Youngblood led the process of designing the most innovative approach to health plan analytics and modeling to be offered in the market.

Design 180^® was released in early 2008 and its innovative, turnkey approach to the management and control of health plans is receiving praise and acceptance from organizations, brokers and third-party administrators. Not just plan analytics, not just plan modeling, not just benchmarking - but a business approach to health plans that will change the way health care is managed and financed.

Indeed, David Hom, who, as former Vice President in the Strategic H.R. Initiatives Department at Pitney Bowes, worked for fifteen years on the highly regarded Pitney Bowes healthcare initiative, recently observed, "NavigatorMD can do in six months what it took Pitney Bowes 16 years to do and, NavigatorMD can do the analysis in 60 seconds. And now, through NavigatorMD, all employers - regardless of size - can take advantage of this power."

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