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David Stern

David Stern

CEO of Kindbody, fertility benefits company; 30+ years in women's health and fertility industry

Jul 29, 2026

0:08
So I know that employers are interested in outcomes and cost transparency, and those are general sort of terms, but what does it mean in your space? You started off, I think, with some talking about like implementation rate, and I'm sure there's a number of other key metrics, but how are you being held accountable these days?
0:27
We have service level agreements and we put into our contracts a certain amount of, for example, you use the example of multiple births.
0:36
Just to give you a couple of figures, a triplet in the United States is about $577,000.
0:40
A twin is $155,000.
0:42
That actually data is probably 10 years old.
0:45
So it's probably grown even more.
0:47
If you're in shelf insured employer, that cost is hitting your bottom line.
15:49
And I'm wondering what's being done today with AI in your space and then where it may be heading.
15:57
AI is amazing.
15:59
And there are so many...
16:02
There's so many things that AI can do.
16:05
And what we're looking at and exploring right now is how do we take manual busy work off of people's hands and make them more efficient? So I'll give you a couple examples in how we're using AI and we're doing pilots right now because we think that this will save time.
16:20
We're not looking at it as a way to replace people, but we're looking at it as a way to reduce busy work.
16:25
And one example that comes to mind is when someone comes into a fertility clinic They have a stack of medical charts because they've been pursuing a family.

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