Angle Health, an AI platform for healthcare benefits, has partnered with specialty healthcare platform Leap Health to expand access to infusion care for small businesses, the companies announced on Tuesday.
San Francisco-based Angle Health provides digital healthcare benefits for employers, particularly small and mid-sized employers, offering customizable plans with telemedicine, behavioral health and other digital services. Its AI-powered app supports care navigation, and the company also handles payment processing, billing and invoicing for more than 3,000 employers across 44 states.
Through the new partnership, Leap Health’s specialty infusion care will be integrated into Angle Health’s benefits. When someone needs infusion treatment, Angle guides them to Leap, which provides the care — often in the patient’s home — and handles coordination and pricing. Leap Health offers a transparent pass-through pricing model, in which the employer pays the actual cost of a service with no hidden markups.
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This differs from the status quo: more than 90% of infusions occur in hospitals or infusion centers, which can greatly increase costs. Infusion services represent a $100 billion market in the U.S.
“Infusion care is one of the fastest-growing and most opaque drivers of employer healthcare spend,” said Caleb Parker, chief commercial officer of Angle Health. “Employers and members alike face inflated costs, limited transparency, and unnecessary friction—despite the fact that most infusions are safe to administer outside of hospitals. Leap Health directly addresses these challenges with a fully transparent, pass-through cost model and a strong track record of delivering high-quality, at-home infusion care.”
Leap Health’s co-founder echoed these comments.
“Specifically, employers are looking for better navigation, clearer cost expectations, and less administrative friction in healthcare,” said Robert LaHayne, co-founder and chief commercial officer of Leap Health. “Angle delivers the plan experience; Leap delivers optimized care pathways and pricing for high-impact services that traditionally drive plan spend unpredictably and create patient friction.”
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Ultimately, by partnering, the companies aim to reduce employer healthcare costs, improve the member experience and outcomes and remove friction in care delivery, Parker and LaHayne told MedCity News. The partnership will make infusion care more “affordable, accessible and predictable,” particularly for small and mid-sized employers, Parker said.
Other companies offering infusion care services include Uptiv Health, VitalCare and Option Care Health.
The announcement comes shortly after Angle Health announced in December that it secured $134 million in Series B funding. The financing is helping the company expand its platform to more employers, Angle previously told MedCity News.
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