Episode #13 - Spotted - This Week in Healthcare
It's time for the healthcare weekly round-up 🤝
📌 Welcome to Edition #13 of "Spotted! - This Week in Healthcare", and I'm your host: Vivek Nanda.
Each week I share the interesting things that I spotted in the world of healthcare.
Let's go...
Edition #13
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The Cigna Group (Cigna Healthcare) launched the Cigna Group Health Equity Impact Fund. The company’s foundation committed $9 million through the fund over three years to reduce health disparities in local communities.
The fund is focusing on communities where health disparities are the most prevalent, starting with Houston, Texas, and Hartford, Connecticut.
The fund will collaborate with local nonprofits in these communities and will reach out to qualified nonprofits to “identify alignment and pursue full application for consideration". Good job Cigna!
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Mental health company Headway has raised $100 million in Series D funding, which it will use to expand to Medicare Advantage and Medicaid beneficiaries.
Headway makes it easier for mental health clinicians to accept patients through insurance by helping them with credentialing, onboarding, clinical training, scheduling, billing and other services.
Through Headway’s platform, patients are able to search for mental health providers by location, concern and insurance carrier, and schedule an appointment within 48 hours.
The company has 34,000 providers and is in network with more than 40 commercial health plans across the U.S.
Way to go, Headway!
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Not too long ago, I launched my new series where I delve into the minds of the game changers, the innovators, the visionaries, and the pioneers of the healthcare industry.
The show is called: The Uprising Show.
The 8 episodes that we released includes guests from health plans like SCAN and Jefferson Health Plans to founders of early stage companies like Klinic, Verto Health, ShiftRx, Nimbus Healthcare, and so on.
We have gotten over 13,000 views and over 1800 subscribers on YouTube alone.
Check out all the episodes on www.theuprisingshow.com.
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Last but not the least, meet Anise Health.
Anise Health is a culturally-responsive digital mental health and wellbeing platform dedicated to meeting the unique needs of communities of color, starting with a focus on the Asian American population.
Anise Health's specialized care model integrates therapy, coaching and digital tools and is delivered by providers who are trained in cultural sensitivity and enabled with AI tools to accurately diagnose, personalize treatments, and drive outcomes at scale.
In less than 2 years, Anise has secured 4 payor contracts and established a variety of B2B channel partnerships to provide care to more patients.
Go check them out!
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And that's a wrap!
Tune in next week for more buzz from the health-tech world.
Have a fantastic weekend. Cheers!