Reducing handoffs can make access easier while concentrating the cost of inaccurate information.
A more direct path can improve conversion only when coverage, availability, and patient expectations remain aligned.
Who you’d be doing this for
“I don’t want to call five people just to learn the directory wasn’t real.”
Pooja Sengupta · Public school teacher
She starts her search in her insurer’s directory and needs an in-network therapist soon.
What is at stake
Renewing this contract puts real-time availability inside the directory of a major insurer, and the setup cannot be undone. You weigh growth in bookings against clinicians facing demand they cannot meet.
Why it isn’t already fixed
Every obvious fix costs something else. That’s the part you’d have to decide.
- directory conversion vs. coverage accuracy
- faster rollout vs. audited evidence
- member convenience vs. provider capacity
- payer reach vs. control of learning
Why Headway
At Headway, this can matter because directory pathways often shape patients’ first belief about whether covered care is actually available.
Written with these in mind
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This is the setup. The work is inside.
Running it puts you in the room: the full situation and its constraints, stakeholders who push back in their own words, and the decisions that are yours to make. What you produce becomes a Day One Plan — work you can show someone instead of describing.