Nice Speech expands in-network speech remedy to federal service members

Digital speech remedy platform Nice Speech introduced it’s now an in-network supplier inside the TRICARE West Area by Well being Web Federal Companies, extending its choices to army service members and their households. 

Nice Speech presents youngsters and adults, together with Medicare members, digital remedy providers for articulation and phonology, govt operate, language problems, Parkinson’s illness, stroke rehabilitation and aphasia, and traumatic mind harm. 

The corporate presents distinctive remedy plans with one-on-one steering from an individually-selected therapist. 

The TRICARE West Area consists of the states of California, Arizona, Colorado, Alaska, Idaho, Hawaii, Iowa (excluding the Rock Island Arsenal space), Missouri (excluding the St. Louis area), Minnesota, Kansas, Montana, Nevada, Nebraska, North Dakota, New Mexico, South Dakota, Oregon, Utah, Wyoming, Washington and the Lubbock, El Paso and Amarillo areas of Texas. 

“Increasing our providers to serve TRICARE West area members aligns with our mission to make high quality speech remedy extra accessible,” Avivit Ben-Aharon, founder and medical director at Nice Speech, stated in a press release. “Our nationwide community of 200+ licensed speech-language pathologists allows TRICARE members to realize their speech and communication objectives from the consolation of house by eradicating geographical limitations and optimizing pairing sufferers with probably the most certified SLP for a person’s particular wants.”

THE LARGER TREND

In August, Florida-based Nice Speech announced a partnership with neurology-focused digital digital care supplier American Telephysicians to offer entry to speech remedy providers to the Jacksonville-based digital healthcare firm’s members. 

Quite a few digital well being corporations provide providers geared towards serving to speech-impaired people, together with speech recognition know-how firm Voiceitt, which announced a partnership with the video conferencing platform Webex by Cisco to make digital conferences extra accessible for people with speech impairments. 

Canary Speech, which creates speech evaluation software program, partnered with Microsoft to use the tech big’s AI know-how to increase its machine studying speech fashions for healthcare.