The funding round was led by 8VC and included participation from Chelsea Clinton’s fund, Metrodora; the Female Founders Fund; Collaborative Fund; and Alumni Ventures. In total, Oula has raised $22.3 million. The company plans to use the funds to grow in its New York market and add more services.
This dearth of maternity care providers is exacerbating the country’s less-than-stellar reputation for birth outcomes. In order to ensure better health for mothers and their newborns, OB-GYNs must identify risk factors that negatively impact pregnancy early on and work to maintain the whole picture of their pregnant patients' health. However, OB-GYNs aren’t incentivized to do this under a fee-for-service payment model.
As technology advances, AI-powered tools will increasingly reduce the administrative burdens on healthcare providers.
Through the partnership, BCBSM fully-insured members will have access to Maven Maternity, and self-insured members can choose to add Maven's full suite of solutions. This includes programs for family building, maternity or parenting and pediatrics.
Director of payer sales at Ovia Health, Kami Wigginton, experienced discriminatory care first-hand when she had cervical cerclage surgery and labored for 30 hours during her first pregnancy. She weighs in on racism in maternity care and Ovia's mission to support families through pregnancy.
Through the partnership, Oula’s patients will be able to deliver their babies at Mount Sinai West, while still working with their maternity care team at Oula.
Two founders started Oula, a maternity care startup that combines virtual and in-person care. They began seeing patients virtually in December and opened an in-person clinic on Tuesday.
The progress in artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping patient care, across various dimensions, from facilitating faster discharge to curating treatment plans and suggesting lifestyle changes.
By moving from paying for maternity care in a piecemeal way to relying on bundled payments, insurers and doctors say they hope to cut costs and improve the quality of care for pregnant women.
The bundled payment program is meant to incentivize better care coordination across the entire episode of maternity care which includes prenatal, delivery and postpartum services.