Mount Laurel-based Array Behavioral Care mentioned it just lately closed its newest fairness spherical to additional scale trendy behavioral well being care, with CVS Well being main the spherical with a $25 million funding. Current buyers additionally joined the spherical and contributed extra capital.
Array Behavioral Care has offered telepsychiatry companies for greater than 20 years. The apply presents digital behavioral well being care companies nationwide in hospitals, group clinics, main care workplaces and affected person properties. It is part of the Aetna community of suppliers. CVS purchased well being insurer Aetna in 2018.
The financing builds upon a protracted historical past between Array and CVS Well being and opens doorways to new ranges of collaboration to broaden entry to high-quality behavioral care.
“Array has persistently been a powerful psychological well being care supplier inside Aetna’s community,” Cara McNulty, president of behavioral well being and psychological well-being for CVS Well being, mentioned. “As CVS Well being drives extra innovation into care supply, we look ahead to working with Array to boost entry that enhances our present companies in new methods.”
With CVS Well being as a brand new investor, Array will scale quicker to supply additional entry to high quality, well timed behavioral care in new and present markets by way of enhanced service choices and operations, revolutionary expertise and enlargement of the apply crew.
“The Array crew’s expertise with telepsychiatry spans greater than 20 years, and, throughout this time, we’ve been on the forefront of making, implementing and evolving virtualized psychological well being packages throughout the continuum of care. From our first telepsychiatry encounter in a rural hospital in 1999 to caring for sufferers on-line from their properties as we speak, we’ve stayed true to our mission to fulfill sufferers the place they’re no matter acuity degree or setting to ship the behavioral well being care they deserve,” Geoffrey Boyce, co-founder and CEO of Array, mentioned. “As we proceed to guide the cost in remodeling entry to trendy behavioral well being care, we’re proud to do it with our present companions and CVS Well being.”
An estimated 150 million Individuals, or 40% of the inhabitants, stay in federally designated psychological well being skilled scarcity areas. Based on analysis by the U.S. Division of Well being & Human Companies, solely 27.7% of the nationwide want for psychological well being professionals is actively being met. This shortage of psychological well being professionals prevents sufferers from receiving the care they want, leading to opposed well being outcomes. The digital care mannequin permits for a extra equitable distribution of medical assets, notably in rural and underserved communities, serving to to take away boundaries that restrict affected person entry and rising collaboration between psychological and bodily well being clinicians.
“Our apply has all the time centered on serving to present sufferers the care they want, when and the place they want it, with out sacrificing high quality,” Dr. James Varrell, co-founder and govt chief medical officer of Array, mentioned. “It’s clear that telebehavioral care is among the most significant methods to handle the clinician scarcity and psychological well being disaster. As our apply broadens its attain, our sufferers and companions can relaxation assured in figuring out that we lead with high quality and medical excellence at the start.”
Digital options may also profit psychiatrists, therapists and different clinicians who can typically be burdened with extreme administrative work that detracts from time that could possibly be spent offering direct affected person care.
CVS Well being joins different business leaders and early buyers in Array Behavioral Care, together with Wells Fargo Strategic Capital, Well being Velocity Capital, Harbour Level Capital, HLM Enterprise Companions, OCA Ventures and OSF Healthcare.
Wells Fargo served as Array’s adviser on the transaction with a crew led by Puneet Chandhok.
