The Helper Bees acquires healthAlign
Austin-based in-home care platform The Helper Bees (THB) announced the acquisition of healthAlign. “Together the two companies will drive aging-in-place innovation by centralizing a full range of in-home services within a single platform; fulfilling through national and local providers, regulated agencies, and tech-enabled caregiver solutions; and synchronizing a bidirectional data stream across every member touchpoint from the home.”
Founded in 2019, healthAlign earned one of the first contracts for the newly formed Medicare Advantage in-home supplemental benefits. By 2020, the company managed over one-third of all in-home support benefits offered, including home modification, transportation, meal delivery, and in-home care. The Helper Bees provides carrier partners with a comprehensive aging-in-place care management program, tech-enabled caregiver matching, and in-home data analytics.
“More seniors are aging in place than ever before, but to date, payers have lacked the ability to unify all services brought into the home of their insureds. By combining human expertise and data science, The Helper Bees’ new, augmented platform offers a single pane of glass view into all services, risks and benefits. While this is important to solving challenges right now, the creation of this platform enables the integration of all new aging-in-place technology. This creates a future-proof model for remaining in the home through a unified care journey.” – The Helper Bees CEO and Co-founder Dr. Char Hu.
“From a patient, payer, and public policy perspective — everyone generally favors care in the home. But there are also quality, logistics, and fulfillment challenges that come with trying to organize a diverse range of in-home services. Our homeAlign™ platform helps solve those challenges. Now together with The Helper Bees, we look forward to bringing a wider range of solutions to our respective clients as well as a broader mix of opportunities to our in-home provider partners.” – Andy Friedell, founder and CEO of healthAlign.
