Digital Mental Health Treatment Vendor Offers ‘Zero Risk’ Program For Health Plans

A digital mental health treatment (DMHT) device vendor is offering health plans a “zero risk” program that provides a performance guarantee of effectiveness and outcomes-based pricing if they cover the device. The program was launched by Freespira, Inc., which developed and markets a DMHT device for home treatment of anxiety disorders, including panic disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Costs were not reported in the announcement.

The Zero Risk program has four components:

Performance guarantee: 1:1 return on investment in year one; costs for treatment of anxiety with the DMHT device will not exceed the costs of . . .