The health insurance giant Cigna (NYSE:CI) has long expressed interest in remote behavioral health care delivery. It’s first big commitment came back in 2017, when the insurer rolled out its virtual care network, creating a system of thousands of behavioral providers able to deliver care remotely. In the years that followed, Cigna slowly continued to […]
Quit Genius, a digital clinic that treats addiction, has scored a partnership with Evernorth, Cigna Corporation’s (NYSE: CI) new health services segment. The agreement makes the San Francisco-based digital therapeutics company the first and only nicotine cessation solution available through the Evernorth Digital Health Formulary, previously known as the Express Scripts Digital Health Formulary. Express […]
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit the U.S., private and public payers rushed to cover telehealth, making it easier than ever for patients to receive behavioral health care. As a result, more than 80% of behavioral health organizations used telehealth for the first time amid the COVID-19 emergency, according to a recent survey by the digital […]
On-demand mental health care startup Ginger has raised $50 million in Series D funding, the company announced Thursday. The funding round was led by Advance Venture Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners, with contributions also coming from big names such as Cigna Ventures, Kaiser Permanente Ventures and Jeff Weiner, the executive chairman of LinkedIn. The new […]
Symetria Health may not be of the size of American Addiction Centers (OTC: AAC), Recovery Centers of America or other industry giants in the substance use disorder (SUD) treatment space. But if you ask CEO Chris Hassan, the Naperville, Illinois-based company is well on its way. Founded in 2006, Symetria Health is the parent company […]
In America today, the need for more substance use disorder (SUD) interventions is clear. In 2017, more than 70,000 people died from drug overdoses, and the alcohol-related death rate was twice what it was 20 years earlier. Those statistics don’t include nearly 20 million others who did not die but still battled SUD that year. […]
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