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industry healthcare genre medical founder gaspard de dreuzy philip eytan osar salazar headquarters new york city website pager.com pager is a private company headquartered in new york city and founded in 2014 . pager develops markets and operates a mobile app based that allows users to request board certified doctors to a specified location . by reducing the overhead costs seen in traditional healthcare settings the company lowers the cost of quality care for their users by a significant amount and charges a flat fee for services . the company s network of doctors have emergency care specialities and are equipped to handle most urgent care needs . pager is part of a growing trend of technological advancements in the healthcare field and is in the process of working to accept insurance . it is currently an out of network provider . the company seeks to help decompress emergency rooms and keep patients out of the hospital unless absolutely necessary . 1 contents 1 history 2 services 3 references 4 external links history edit the company was founded in 2014 by gaspard de dreuzy philip eytan and oscar salazar . prior to pager de dreuzy started several gaming companies and the online broker kapitall eytan became a founding investor in tech startups like livestream after a career on wall street and salazar was part of the founding team of uber before joining tpg owned ride . the company s chief medical officer richard boxer also formerly held the title at teladoc one of the largest telemedicine companies . pager derives inspiration from france s sos m decins but uses the courtesy of today s mobile and scheduling software . 2 the company raised 4.5 million in its first seed . 3 the company has been grouped into the wave of new startups trying to become the uber for x and has been labeled the uber for doctors . pager s general manager toby hervey has expressed the company is responding to the need for convenience and the idea of coming to you now is ingrained into the new york city dna . 4 on october 23 2014 uber and the company partnered in new york city in uberhealth and brought free on demand flu prevention with the help of vaccine finder . 5 the company has been featured in publications such as the wall street journal inc magazine huffington post and more . plus it has been on news segments from wnbc wall street journal live and wabc . services edit pager s doctors are board certified with emergency specialities coming from hospital affiliations such as beth israel medical center lenox hill hospital and richmond university medical center . the company s doctors can treat most urgent care needs and list examples ranging from treating bronchitis to lacerations . atypical to most healthcare practices pager charges a flat fee of 50 for first time visits and 200 after with services including strep testing stitches and first round of prescriptions . 6 references edit meet pager the app that calls local doctors to your living room street fight magazine november 25 2014 9 healthcare tech startups to watch information week december 24 2014 there s an uber for that inc. magazine february 2015 the uber economy crain communications november 24 2014 uberhealth in nyc uber october 23 2014 better than an urgent care center pager may 2014 external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title pager company & oldid 739930238 categories companies based in new york city2014 establishments in new yorkamerican companies established in 2014hidden categories wikipedia articles with possible conflicts of interest from february 2015articles with a promotional tone from february 2015all articles with a promotional tonenpov disputes from february 2015all npov disputespages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured 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