Addiction treatment provider Eleanor Health announced Monday the expansion of its leadership team.
The additional executives will aid in the company’s market expansion and the growth of its business and care delivery model. Eleanor Health is built around value-based care reimbursement and population health.
The Waltham, Massachusetts-based addiction care and mental health provider announced the completion of a $50 million Series C round in April 2022. The company has raised $82 million since its founding in 2019, according to Crunchbase.
Eleanor Health offers medication-assisted treatment, psychiatry, therapy and coaching services.
The new leadership hires include:
— Elizabeth Hart, chief customer and patient engagement officer
— Scott Fries, chief financial officer
— Peter Bird, chief of staff
Danica Patterson was also promoted to chief of markets. Patterson previously held the role of regional market president for Eleanor Health.
Hart comes to Eleanor Health after being the vice president of engagement for Everside Health for more than two years. Her resume also includes more than seven years of director roles with Cigna Corp. (NYSE: CI).
Fries held the roles of chief operating officer, executive vice president and senior vice president at the health tech companies Allscripts Healthcare Solutions Inc. (Nasdaq: MDRX) and Prime Therapeutics over an 8-year span.
Previously the vice president of strategy and performance at the managed care organization Carolina Complete Health Network, Bird spent nearly 20 years of his career at the health analytics company IQVIA (NYSE: IQV).
Eleanor Health operates in seven states, according to its website. Previously, the company said it would manage more than 60,000 members and be available to over 22 million people.
Eleanor takes a population health and value-based care approach to care and reimbursement to account for the big picture of addiction recovery, Eleanor CEO Corbin Petro previously told Behavioral Health Business.
“We think about somebody getting clean or abstinent … when really we should be thinking about how we make this whole population better than they were last year,” Petro said. “How do we move them along the continuum? Because otherwise, you’ll run into cherry-picking.”
Patients with behavioral health conditions drive about 57% of all health care spending in the U.S. despite only making up 27% of the population, according to a previous Milliman study.
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