Headspace, Intermountain Well being’s VBC subsidiary spouse for psychological fitness

Virtual psychological fitness corporate Headspace introduced it’s partnering with Intermountain Well being’s value-based care subsidiary Castell to offer on-demand behavioral fitness services and products to choose insurance coverage plan contributors in Utah.

Headspace can be built-in into Castell’s care type, and suppliers within the value-based care corporate will have the ability to without delay refer contributors to Headspace for behavioral fitness training and remedy. 

“Our objective with sufferers is to assist them have probably the most holistic view in their fitness. Having the ability to higher deal with and combine a affected person’s psychological fitness standing is significant to treating the entire individual and raising the standard of care they obtain,” Jay Zerwekh, CEO of Castell, stated in a remark. “We’re overjoyed to spouse with Headspace to present sufferers get admission to to behavioral fitness training and gear that may be adapted to satisfy their particular person wishes.”

THE LARGER TREND

In June, Headspace introduced its prolonged partnership with employer fitness tech corporate Virgin Pulse. The collaboration would supply Virgin’s contributors and roughly 2,000 staff globally with complete get admission to to Headspace from its AI-enabled fitness and wellbeing platform, Homebase for Well being. 

Closing 12 months the psychological fitness platform obtained the Shine app, a psychological wellness platform fascinated by culturally competent and inclusive choices, and Sayana, maker of AI-enabled psychological health-tracking and sleep apps. 

In 2021, Headspace merged with fellow virtual psychological fitness supplier Ginger, an on-demand virtual psychological fitness training and video remedy platform, in a deal that reportedly valued the mixed corporate at $3 billion. In flip, the corporate shaped meditation and psychological fitness corporate Headspace Well being.

Inside the previous 12 months, Headspace Well being has suffered from two rounds of layoffs. In July, it let move of 181 staff, or about 15% of its body of workers, and, in December, laid off about 4% of its body of workers, or roughly 50 staff.   

Different firms offering virtual behavioral fitness give a boost to come with NeuroFlow, which permits healthcare suppliers to trace, assess and connect to sufferers between conventional workplace visits, and Boston-based Writer Well being, a hybrid care platform for Medicare Benefit contributors with critical psychological sickness and substance use issues.