Concert Health, a behavioral healthcare startup, has partnered with Froedtert Health in Wisconsin to enhance care for pediatric, primary care, and women’s health patients. Concert Health uses a collaborative care model to connect patients with behavioral care managers via phone or video calls, providing counseling, medication management, and goal-setting. The collaboration expands Concert Health’s services to 30 providers in Manitowoc and Sheboygan counties in Wisconsin. This is consistent with the larger trend of virtual behavioral healthcare companies partnering with healthcare providers to improve patient care.
Concert Health, a behavioral healthcare startup, has partnered with Froedtert Health, a Wisconsin-based healthcare provider. The collaboration aims to improve patient care in the areas of pediatrics, primary care, and women’s health.
Concert Health specializes in offering behavioral health support to primary care providers, pediatricians, and women’s health practitioners. Using a collaborative care approach, Concert Health analyzes referrals, prescription data, and screenings across a practice’s patient population to identify individuals who may benefit from behavioral health services. These patients are then connected with a behavioral care manager via phone or video call.
The care managers provide counseling, medication management, symptom checks, and assistance in setting goals for patients. In cases where patients are not showing improvement, psychiatric consultants review the relevant information and provide recommendations that are added to the medical records of primary care providers.
Concert Health’s behavioral healthcare services will be implemented by 30 providers in Wisconsin’s Manitowoc and Sheboygan counties as part of the partnership. Froedtert Health’s service expansion is expected to improve the quality of care provided to their patients.
Spencer Hutchins, the CEO, and co-founder of Concert Health expressed enthusiasm about the collaboration, stating that their goal is to deliver high-quality integrated care by placing primary care providers at the core of a patient’s physical and behavioral health. Hutchins emphasized that primary care providers are well-positioned to address behavioral health needs, as decades of research have shown that this approach is the most effective for comprehensive patient care.
Concert Health had previously raised $14 million in Series A financing in 2021, followed by $42 million in Series B funding in 2022. The company has also partnered with Med First, a healthcare provider in North Carolina, to integrate its behavioral health services into primary care clinics.
This trend of integrating virtual behavioral healthcare services into existing healthcare offerings is not exclusive to Concert Health. Other companies, such as NeuroFlow and Brave Health, have also entered into partnerships with healthcare providers to advance collaborative care models and enhance behavioral health services for patients.
