Kindbody, Rightway companion to broaden fertility care choices to employers

Healthcare navigation and pharmacy advantages platform Rightway and hybrid fertility and reproductive care firm Kindbody are partnering to supply employers family-building and reproductive healthcare advantages. 

New York-based Kindbody affords digital and in-person providers, together with contraception care, fertility testing, gynecological care, egg freezing, and digital wellness and training providers. 

Rightway’s enterprise healthcare platform helps workers perceive and make the most of the well being advantages obtainable to them. Customers can see prices and care choices inside their plan. The corporate additionally acts as a pharmacy advantages supervisor. 

Kindbody will probably be built-in into Rightway’s ecosystem partnership program to supply workers with entry to the reproductive care firm’s choices. 

“Our partnership with Kindbody represents a major step in rising entry to important fertility care advantages,” Kara Kubarych, VP of consumer success and strategic partnerships at Rightway, mentioned in an announcement. “By becoming a member of forces with Kindbody, Rightway is increasing our employer shoppers’ potential to supply complete and inexpensive family-building providers to workers and their households.” 

THE LARGER TREND

In Might, Rightway announced it was partnering with Amazon’s hybrid major care supplier, One Medical, to broaden entry to major care for workers. 

One Medical, acquired by Amazon earlier this 12 months, affords digital care and in-person visits alongside supplier messaging and prescription help. Rightway built-in One Medical into its ecosystem partnership program. 

In 2021, Rightway secured $100 million in Series C funding at a valuation of $1.1 billion. The corporate acquired $20 million in Series B funding two years prior and $8 million in Series A financing.

Kindbody scored $100 million in March, bringing its valuation to $1.8 billion. Two months later, the corporate secured one other $25 million funding. 

Final 12 months, the fertility firm acquired Vios Fertility Institute, a community of fertility clinics working in Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, Oregon, Washington and Wisconsin. It additionally bought genomics firm Phosphorus Labs and Chicago-based surrogacy company Alternative Reproductive Resources. 

The corporate additionally introduced the launch of at-home fertility tests for women and men, which measure hormones related to reproductive operate and well being and could possibly be paired with in-person or digital appointments with a Kindbody doctor to debate the outcomes.