Services and Solutions

TrestleTree, Inc. is a health transformation company whose business is to reduce the health care costs of self-insured companies and state Medicaid agencies through health behavioral coaching for individuals and their families. TrestleTree provides health-coaching relationships to employees who are diagnosed with a chronic illness, as well as those employees who have a pre-diseased condition, such as obesity or tobacco use. The company utilizes health coaches, who work via teleconference calls, to deliver its primary service.

Current health status trends are depicted in the graphic below. Obesity has become an epidemic, and out of control behavioral risks are dramatically increasing the incidence of diabetes and cardiovascular disease.


TrestleTree health coaches connect with their participants at a depth that other "Disease Management" companies are incapable of matching. TrestleTree provides extensive, additional training on top of a health coach's core expertise allowing them to meet their participants where they are in their health journey and help them move in a positive direction toward a healthy lifestyle.


Traditional "Disease Management" companies target only the sickest, most costly members of a population, then use Prochaska's Transtheoretical Model of Change as a filter so that they target only individuals who are ready to make health changes. These companies often provide "handouts" or other materials to the other 95% of the population. This is their "Full Spectrum" solution...

TrestleTree targets an entire population without "cherry picking" the most at risk individuals. Information alone does not change tough, critical health behaviors. TrestleTree provides extensive training on top of their health coaches core discipline (nursing, pharmacy, dietetics, exercise physiology) that teaches them new skills to become CHANGE EXPERTS capable of facilitating changes toward healthy behaviors.

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Nurses (or other health care professionals) without TrestleTree training can monitor illness. Others in a coaching role, such as mental health counselors, can discuss important behavior change principles. But it is the potent combination of these influencing forces that stands as the critical differentiating power of TrestleTree’s coaching relationships. For information on our training, please visit “Training”

Health and Wellness (Nutrition, Exercise, Tobacco Cessation)

TrestleTree began with disease management, yet our model has always been inclusive of all issues a participant brings to the table including smoking, exercise, food choices and weight loss. One of our first clients drove us to expand our core service offerings into the preventative health and wellness sector due to the tremendous success in changing lifestyle behavior issues they saw among their diseased population. The same intensity that is used for TrestleTree’s disease management coaching is applied to Tobacco Cessation and Weight Management coaching. One-on-one telephonic coaching Scheduled appointment times that the patient chooses The initial appointment is 30 minutes in length and follow up appointments are 15-30 minutes Bi-weekly appointments to begin with, tapered off as patient moves into the action and maintenance phase of changing health behaviors.

Chronic Disease

Using population health management strategies, high-risk members can be identified through a number of techniques including: predictive modeling, historical claims data analysis, pharmacy claims data analysis, health status assessments and member self-report. TrestleTree’s health coaching structure for the Disease Management patients includes: One-on-one telephonic coaching Scheduled appointment times that the patient chooses Initial appointment is 60 minutes in length, follow up appointments are 15-30 minutes Bi-weekly or monthly appointments to begin with, tapered off as patient moves into the action and maintenance phase of changing health behaviors. Today, TrestleTree focuses on the following high cost chronic conditions: Diabetes Asthma Hypertension Hypercholesterolemia Stress

It's My Health Website

All participants in the TrestleTree health coaching program automatically gain access to TrestleTree's "It's My Health" website.
With the "It's My Health" website, TrestleTree participants can:

• Send and Recieve Confidential, Encrypted E-Mails from their Personal Health Coach
• Read and Print documents sent to them via their Personal Health Coach
• Communicate with other participants in the TrestleTree program that are facing some of the same health challenges
• Chart progress on Personal Health Goals
• Keep track of laboratory values specific to their disease state
• View and print quality information about their disease state or condition