Stride Joins Integrity to Transform Nation’s Individual Marketplace of Expanding Healthcare Benefits
Integrity, LLC, a leading distributor of life and health insurance, and provider of wealth management and retirement planning solutions, today announced it has acquired Stride Health (“Stride”), a portable benefits technology platform enabling flexible, digital insurance enrollment for independent workers — one of the nation’s fastest-growing labor segments. This acquisition combines Integrity’s own AI-powered technology, omnichannel distribution platform and nationwide agent network with Stride’s scalable consumer marketplace and enrollment technology — creating unparalleled infrastructure built to help American workers navigate the individual insurance marketplace while meeting them where they work. It also greatly expands benefit access, enhances enrollment processes and signifies Integrity’s long-term investment in the under-65 market.
With millions of people now participating in the independent gig economy, solutions that simplify the process of choosing a health insurance plan has never been more important. Stride helps more than 140 gig economy and payroll platforms such as Uber, DoorDash, Gusto and Amazon Flex bridge the benefits gap for independent and part-time workers. Its powerful and flexible technology enables workers to enroll in portable benefits — including health, dental, vision and life insurance — in a streamlined, compliant environment. Stride embeds this functionality into existing workforce management platforms for a simplified and seamless enrollment experience.
Together, Integrity and Stride are uniquely positioned to meet a critical need of the under 65 market: delivering affordable, accessible benefits to millions of Americans who have historically lacked traditional employer-sponsored coverage. The combined platform will serve workers across AI-powered digital and agent-assisted channels, ensuring consumers can access coverage however they prefer — whether through a fully digital yet highly intuitive online experience or with the personalized guidance and reassurance that comes from meeting with a licensed agent.