Specialty care platform Lantern has launched an unique partnership with Pelago, a digital clinic for substance use administration, the businesses introduced final week.
Dallas, Texas-based Lantern directs members of well being plans and self-insured employers to native suppliers for surgical procedure, most cancers remedy, infusion care or different medical wants. By way of its partnership with Pelago, Lantern’s purchasers can now entry Pelago’s substance use dysfunction remedy by way of Lantern’s specialty care platform. Its purchasers embody Hyatt Lodges, 7-Eleven and 32BJ Well being Fund.
Pelago, based mostly in New York Metropolis, affords remedy for these seeking to handle, cut back or cease their tobacco, alcohol, opioid or hashish use. Sufferers achieve entry to a care workforce that features physicians, nurses, coaches and counselors. The corporate additionally supplies assist for co-occurring psychological diseases and continual situations like diabetes. As well as, sufferers have entry to vetted inpatient remedy services, distant monitoring gadgets and medication-assisted remedy.
Lantern entered into the partnership with Pelago as a result of it had heard from its employer purchasers that they had been concerned with substance use administration assist.
“We consider Pelago is the chief within the area, and one of many causes they’re the chief is a lot of their work is so grounded within the scientific finest observe approaches, trying very clearly on the scientific proof, constructing that into their packages, then validating and testing that. … The truth that they’re narrowly targeted in substance use dysfunction, we additionally thought was significantly attention-grabbing, as a result of it means that they’ve actually, actually good at that particular space, relatively than attempting to be too broad,” mentioned Dickon Waterfield, president of Lantern, in an interview.
There’s a want for extra substance use dysfunction assist, with 49 million U.S. grownup employees battling a substance use dysfunction, a psychological sickness or each. There are a number of different firms that deal with dependancy, together with Bicycle Well being, Ophelia and Boulder Care. Nonetheless, Pelago is extra targeted on serving employers than these different firms, which primarily work with well being plans together with Medicaid.
By partnering with Lantern, Pelago hopes to make it simpler for employers to handle their healthcare advantages.
“Employers are sometimes overwhelmed with too many level options,” mentioned Frank Jennings, president of Pelago, in an electronic mail. “Our purpose is to make it simpler for them to seek out efficient, outcome-focused care in a single place. By working collectively, we’re making a extra simple means for employers to offer high quality care at a greater value, bettering the expertise for workers and organizations alike.”
On Lantern’s aspect, the corporate finally goals to “give extra folks entry to wonderful care round substance use dysfunction,” Waterfield said.
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