Cigna’s Behavioral Well being CMO on Nationwide Rollout of Ginger – The Well being Care Weblog

By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH

Cigna is making digital psychological well being companies obtainable to its total nationwide community of 14 million members, and it’s chosen well being tech startup, Ginger to ship the brand new profit. Cigna’s Chief Medical Officer for Behavioral Well being, Doug Nemecek, and Ginger’s CEO, Russ Glass, cease by to debate the deal and why Cigna is making such a dedication to increasing its behavioral well being providing.

That is about extra than simply coping with psychological well being within the aftermath of Covid; Cigna is definitely Ginger’s behavioral well being teaching mannequin as preventative. Will different well being plans observe go well with? Might expanded protection for lower-acuity psychological well being companies change into commonplace? Doug talks about what’s forward for psychological well being care from a inhabitants well being standpoint, and the way companies like Ginger’s give main care docs a normal, trusted supplier to which they will refer sufferers with regards to more and more frequent issues like melancholy and nervousness. For Russ and Ginger, who discuss utilizing digital care to proper the “supply-and-demand imbalance” in psychological well being care, what is going to greater than doubling their present consumer base (from 10 million to 24 million) do to their very own potential to offer provide? It’s a moment-of-truth for the enterprise of digital psychological well being and we’ve obtained the small print!