Virtual speech therapy platform Great Speech announced that it is now an in-network provider in the TRICARE West region through Health Net Federal Services, expanding its offerings to military members and their families.
Great Speech offers children and adults, including Medicare members, virtual therapy services for articulation and phonology, executive functions, language disorders, Parkinson’s disease, stroke rehabilitation and aphasia, as well as head injuries.
The company offers unique treatment plans with individual advice from an individually selected therapist.
The TRICARE West region includes the states of California, Arizona, Colorado, Alaska, Idaho, Hawaii, Iowa (excluding Rock Island Arsenal region), Missouri (excluding St. Louis region) , 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.
“Expanding our services to serve members of the TRICARE West region aligns with our mission to make quality speech therapy more accessible,” said Avivit Ben-Aharon, founder and clinical director of Great Speech, in a communicated. “Our national network of more than 200 licensed speech-language pathologists allows TRICARE members to achieve their speech and communication goals from the comfort of their home by removing geographic limitations and optimizing patient matching with the right speech-language pathologist. more qualified for an individual’s specific needs.
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In August, Florida-based Great Speech announced a partnership with neurology-focused digital virtual care provider American Telephysicians to provide access to speech-language pathology services to members of the Jacksonville-based digital healthcare company.
Many digital health companies offer services aimed at helping people with speech disorders, including a voice recognition technology company. Voiceitt, which announced a partnership with Cisco’s Webex video conferencing platform to make virtual meetings more accessible to people with speech disabilities.
Canary Speechwhich creates voice analytics software, has partnered with Microsoft to apply the tech giant’s AI technology to expand its machine learning voice models for healthcare.