Digital opioid use dysfunction remedy firm Bicycle Well being inked a cope with Marvin, a startup that helps clinician psychological well being, as a way to present healthcare professionals with opioid remedy.
Marvin sufferers will now be capable to entry Bicycle Well being’s telehealth-based therapies. The service gives sufferers entry to medical provider-driven medicine administration, group remedy from a behavioral well being clinician, on-line help teams and on-demand entry to a clinician.
At the moment the service is open to sufferers dwelling in 24 states. Bicycle Well being’s on-line service for medication-assisted remedy (MAT) offers sufferers entry to Suboxone. Sufferers begin the remedy course of by talking with an enrollment coordinator. Subsequent sufferers and medical doctors meet by means of a cellphone and video name to debate a remedy plan for the affected person’s opioid use dysfunction. The service is ready to supply eligible sufferers with a Suboxone remedy prescription refill by means of a weekly, biweekly or month-to-month digital care go to with a Bicycle Well being supplier.
WHY IT MATTERS
The Division of Well being and Human Companies declared the opioid epidemic a public well being emergency in 2017. The COVID-19 pandemic solely worsened the opioid disaster. In reality, based on the Kaiser Household Basis, 93,331 people within the U.S. died from a drug overdose in 2020, a 30% improve from 2019. Opioid overdoses accounted for 69,710 of the 93,331 deaths.
“The immense strain of COVID exacerbated a long-standing drawback in healthcare, many staff throughout the board battle with psychological well being and substance abuse points. We’re excited to collaborate with Bicycle, weaving collectively our specialties, to play our function in decreasing the struggling that torments too a lot of our beloved care givers,” John Bracaglia, CEO of Marvin, stated in a press release.
THE LARGER TREND
Based in 2017, Bicycle Well being has been rising. The corporate lately scored $27 million in a Collection A funding spherical led by Questa Capital.
Bicycle Well being is not the one digital well being firm trying to assist deal with opioid use dysfunction. Cerebral, a digital psychological well being firm valued at roughly $4.8 billion, introduced a brand new program aimed toward treating opioid use dysfunction. The corporate works with licensed prescribers to construct remedy plans, which can embody utilizing Suboxone, in addition to digital counseling classes. Simply weeks earlier than this announcement, a Bloomberg Businessweek investigation reported Cerebral employees had too many sufferers on their caseload and that ADHD prescriptions have been pushed too aggressively on the expense of affected person care.
