Someone on your side of the desk.
Simbioza exists because the jobs that make health care work for a patient — coaching, coordinating, keeping the whole case in one place — are almost never done by someone the patient hired. We changed who they answer to.
Why we built it
When my daughter was fourteen she developed severe abdominal pain and missed months of school. In a year we saw three gastroenterologists, a pediatrician and a neurologist, went through an MRE, a CT, ultrasounds and endless blood tests, then tried an acupuncturist, a naturopath, an osteopath and a medical psychologist. Every one of them was competent. None was looking at the whole child, and each diagnosis contradicted the last. We spent the year scheduling, chasing insurance, carrying results from one office to the next, and paying for private care just to skip the queue. What we wanted, and could not find, was one person whose job was her case: hold every result in one place, make sense of the conflicting opinions, tell us what to do next. That is what Simbioza is.
— Gilad, co-founder
What we believe
- The patient should be the only person your navigator or coach works for.
- Nothing should fall between two doctors.
- Nobody should be handed a result without an explanation of what it means.
- You should always know what to do next.
Where we work
Health coaching in 14 states, Clinical Care Navigation in Virginia, entirely by video and phone. See the list →
Work with us
We hire coaches and clinicians who've done the work inside the system and want to do it for the patient instead. Email us →