The Backbone of Healthcare Deserves Better Benefits - Here's
How We're Delivering Them
Every blood draw, every specimen collected, every sample logged correctly and on time depends on a workforce that rarely gets top billing: the independent phlebotomists, specimen collectors, and clinical professionals who show up at labs, hospitals, and care sites across the country, often on short notice, to keep diagnostic operations running. They are not a backup plan. They are core infrastructure. It's time our industry treated them that way.
That's the thinking behind FloatR's new collaboration with Stride, the leading portable benefits platform for independent workers. Starting today, the more than 18,000 credentialed healthcare professionals in FloatR's network gain access to affordable health, dental, vision, and life insurance, plans that follow them from shift to shift rather than disappearing the moment a contract ends.
The gap we're closing
Independent clinical talent has always faced a trade-off: the flexibility of contract work in exchange for the safety net that comes standard with traditional employment. Health coverage, dental care, vision plans, these have largely been out of reach for professionals doing indispensable clinical work. Through Stride, FloatR professionals can now compare and enroll in coverage in minutes, at no cost beyond the plan itself, with year-round support. On average, Stride members save $418 a month on health insurance, and members save an average of $710 a year in tax deductions using Stride's income and expense tracking tools.
Why this matters for the organizations we serve
For the labs, health systems, and care sites that rely on FloatR to staff critical clinical roles, this isn't just a benefits update, it's a capacity and quality investment. A workforce with real financial security and access to healthcare is a workforce that's more likely to stay, show up reliably, and bring full attention to precision-dependent work like specimen collection. Supporting the people behind the work is inseparable from supporting the quality of the work itself.
As FloatR Founder and CEO Evan Haupt put it: "Our collaboration with Stride adds another layer of value, giving our network of more than 18,000 FloatRs access to affordable, portable insurance, reinforcing FloatR's role as an end-to-end professional advantage for the independent healthcare workforce."
Stride's Bryan Giaimo, GM of Enterprise, echoed the same commitment: "Independent healthcare workers are a critical piece of the healthcare ecosystem but often are left without access to the benefits that come standard with traditional employment."
Great patient outcomes start with the people doing the clinical work behind the scenes. Investing in their stability is how we help our partner organizations raise the bar on both capacity and quality of care.
FloatR professionals can explore plans and enroll now through Stride's dedicated FloatR portal https://floatr.stridehealth.com/?utm_source=partner_floatr