Aligned Marketplace为先进初级保健市场筹集2,000万美元
Aligned Marketplace Secures $20M for Advanced Primary Care Marketplace
先进初级保健市场 Aligned Marketplace 周四宣布，公司已获得2,000万美元的A轮融资，将用于拓展更多雇主客户。
这家总部位于纽约的公司服务于自筹资金的雇主和第三方管理机构。公司拥有一个由独立的先进初级保健和直接初级保健诊所组成的市场。如果会员需要初级保健以外的医疗服务，医生可以将其转诊至同样位于 Aligned Marketplace 上的专科医疗机构。公司业务覆盖全美50个州，拥有3,000多家诊所，驾车距离覆盖超过80%的美国人口。
“这些医生接诊的患者数量更少，花更多时间与患者相处，而且大多在传统保险计划网络之外运营，因此在目前之前，大多数雇主都无法接触到他们，”Aligned Marketplace 首席执行官 Patrick Nelli 表示。“但如果人们不使用，仅仅获得服务机会并不能改变任何事情。我们不会坐等会员主动寻找我们，而是主动联系，帮助会员找到合适的医生，包括识别风险正在上升或已经属于高风险的人群，并在一个可管理的问题变成高成本问题之前将他们与医疗服务连接起来。”赞助内容AI 部署将在哪些方面最大程度惠及付款方？
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Venrock 领投了本轮A轮融资。截至目前，Aligned Marketplace 总共筹集了3,100万美元。
“雇主仍在努力应对不断上升的医疗成本以及初级保健服务可及性不佳的问题。幸运的是，更好的初级保健能够让人们更健康，从而降低医疗成本。Aligned Marketplace 已经建立了一个覆盖全国的优秀初级保健提供者网络，这些提供者对患者而言非常便捷，并兑现了让人们更健康的承诺，同时也降低了雇主和患者的成本，”Venrock 合伙人 Bob Kocher 在一份声明中表示。
据 Nelli 介绍，借助这笔融资，公司将向其市场中增加更多诊所，完善用于预约和医疗服务导航的 AI 工具，并继续拓展基于价值的专科医疗服务。
Aligned Marketplace 也实现了成本节约。一项由第三方精算机构开展的分析发现，一家《财富》500强公司的员工中，与 Aligned Marketplace 进行互动的会员，其医疗成本比风险匹配的全国基准低12%，相当于每位会员每月节省96美元。参与互动的会员预防性筛查数量也有所增加：首次就诊后，乳房X线筛查率大约翻了一倍，结肠镜检查率接近增加至原来的三倍。
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作者：Michael Blackman，医学博士、工商管理硕士，Greenway Health® 首席医疗官Nelli 表示，Aligned Marketplace 发布这一消息之际，超过80%的医生供职于医院系统或大型企业，而这些机构“在医疗服务发生于自身设施内时能够获利”。
“因此，初级保健服务很难找到，预约也很难获得；而当你终于预约到时，通常是一次10分钟的就诊，主要充当通往高价专科医疗服务的跳板，而这种专科服务可能需要，也可能并不需要。……希望以不同方式行医的初级保健医生已经开始建立自己的诊所，独立于医院系统和传统保险机构，”他说。
然而，对于员工分布在全国各地的雇主而言，与独立诊所签订合同可能很难实施。这正是 Aligned Marketplace 最终希望解决的问题。
“过去几年，我们一直在与这些先进初级保健和直接初级保健医生建立直接关系，并将他们汇集到一个市场中，这样雇主就可以通过一份协议获得这些更优质的医疗模式，”Nelli 表示。
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Aligned Marketplace, an advanced primary care marketplace, announced Thursday that it secured $20 million in Series A funding, which it will use to reach more employer customers.
The New York-based company serves self-funded employers and third-party administrators. It has a marketplace of independent advanced and direct primary care practices. If a member needs more than primary care, physicians can refer them to specialty care also on Aligned Marketplace. The company operates in all 50 states with more than 3,000 clinics within driving distance of over 80% of the U.S. population.
“These doctors have smaller panels, spend more time with their patients, and mostly operate outside of traditional plan networks, so have been out of reach for most employers until now,” said Patrick Nelli, CEO of Aligned Marketplace. “But access alone doesn’t change anything if people don’t use it. Rather than waiting for members to seek us out, we proactively reach out to help members find the right doctor, including identifying people who are rising risk or already high risk and connecting them with care before a manageable problem becomes an expensive one.” Sponsored Post Where Will AI Deployment Benefit Payers the Most?
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Venrock led the Series A round. In total, Aligned Marketplace has raised $31 million to date.
“Employers continue to struggle with rising healthcare costs and poor access to primary care. Fortunately, better primary care lowers healthcare costs by making people healthier. Aligned Marketplace has built a national network of exceptional primary care providers who are super accessible to patients and deliver on the promise of making people healthier, which also lowers cost for employers and patients,” said Bob Kocher, partner at Venrock, in a statement.
With the financing, the company will add more clinics to its marketplace, build out its AI tools for scheduling and care navigation and continue expanding into value-based specialty care, according to Nelli.
Aligned Marketplace has achieved cost savings as well. A third-party actuarial analysis found that members of a Fortune 500 company who engaged with Aligned Marketplace had healthcare costs 12% below a risk-matched national benchmark, equating to savings of $96 per member per month. Engaged members also saw increases in preventive screenings, with mammogram rates roughly doubling and colonoscopy rates nearly tripling after their first visit.
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Aligned Marketplace’s announcement comes as more than 80% of physicians work for hospital systems or large corporations “that profit when care happens inside their own facilities,” Nelli said.
“As a result, primary care is hard to find and hard to get an appointment for, and when you do, it’s typically a 10-minute visit that mainly serves as a launch pad to expensive specialty care that may or may not be needed. … Primary care doctors who want to practice medicine a different way have started building their own practices, independent of hospital systems and traditional insurance,” he said.
However, for employers who have workforces across the country, contracts with independent practices can be difficult to implement. That’s what Aligned Marketplace ultimately aims to solve.
“We’ve spent the past few years building direct relationships with these advanced and direct primary care doctors and bringing them to one marketplace, so employers can access these better care models through a single agreement,” Nelli stated.
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