Psychological well being providers firm Headway has raised $100 million in Sequence D funding, which it is going to use to broaden its providers to Medicare Benefit and Medicaid beneficiaries, the corporate introduced Tuesday.

Headway, based mostly in New York Metropolis, makes it simpler for psychological well being clinicians to just accept sufferers via insurance coverage by serving to with accreditation, onboarding, medical coaching, scheduling, billing and different providers. Via Headway’s platform, sufferers can seek for psychological well being suppliers by location, care supplier and insurance coverage service, and schedule an appointment inside 48 hours. The corporate has 34,000 suppliers and is affiliated with greater than 40 industrial well being plans within the U.S.

The $100 million Sequence D funding spherical was led by Spark Capital and included participation from Thrive Capital, Accel, a16z and Forerunner Ventures. In complete, Headway has raised greater than $325 million, in line with Crunchbase. The Sequence D spherical values ​​the corporate at $2.3 billion.

In keeping with Will Reed, common accomplice at Spark Capital and a Headway board member, Headway simplifies the method of accessing psychological well being care.

“Headway is rapidly changing into the centralized platform for psychological well being care entry and supply,” Reed stated in an announcement. “The corporate is uniquely positioned to carry collectively suppliers, sufferers and payers and unify a fragmented system, and Spark Capital is worked up to proceed supporting its mission and progress.”

The corporate will use the funding for its deliberate growth into Medicare Benefit and Medicaid. Headway has already began Medicare Benefit plans in some states and expects to broaden to 51 markets by the tip of 2024. It would start Medicaid in 2025.

“There’s a great want for elevated entry to psychological well being care amongst these populations, and our group of clinicians overwhelmingly needs to fill the gaps,” Olivia Davis, Headway’s chief industrial officer, stated in an electronic mail. “Once we surveyed suppliers on our platform about this matter final 12 months, they stated the highest motive they purchased insurance coverage was to ‘present entry to care for individuals who can not afford non-public payer providers.’ Headway is constructing the nuanced merchandise and packages wanted to allow clinicians to just accept sufferers from these plans.”

Collectively, Medicare Benefit and Medicaid cowl almost a 3rd of People, who usually have better well being care wants however face further boundaries to receiving care. Regardless of one in three Medicaid beneficiaries and one in 4 Medicare beneficiaries residing with a psychological well being situation, entry to psychological well being care stays a problem because of a extreme scarcity of suppliers, in line with a March 2024 report from the U.S. Division of Well being and Human Providers.

“It’s because authorities packages add a further layer of operational burdens, resembling extra advanced accreditation processes and stricter compliance necessities [for providers]in comparison with industrial plans,” Davis stated. “We’re investing within the know-how to alleviate this operational and administrative burden and in the end make it simple for clinicians to supply care to those sufferers.”

Different corporations connecting sufferers with psychological well being suppliers embody Alma and Develop Remedy, the latter of which lately raised $88 million in Sequence C funding.

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