Spun out of Boston Children’s Hospital in 2016 with more than $10M in venture capital funding and sold, two years later, to Logisticare for $58M.
Project Overview
Circulation leverages on-demand transportation services to ease the burden of non-emergency medical transportation. Circulation seamlessly integrates with healthcare systems, providing a HIPAA compliant platform to ease the burden of non-emergency medical transportation. Now serving over 1,600 health facilities across more than 45 US states, Circulation is reducing the number of missed medical appointments, helping patients receive the care they need and lowering associated healthcare costs.
Healthcare Context
Each year, ~3.6 million patients across the US miss at least one medical appointment due to lack of access to transportation.
To date, non-emergency medical transportation (NEMT) has been coordinated through a variety of parties, such as transportation brokers, managed care benefits, and non-preauthorized contractors. Each of these systems operate on a state-by-state basis, with non-preauthorized contractors able to rely on ‘volunteer drivers’ as sufficient means for non-emergency medical transportation. As a result, NEMT systems are fragmented and inefficient. The issues of appointment access, as demonstrated by missed appointments, and fragmented transportation systems, as demonstrated by current transportation systems, are addressed by Circulation.
In The News
- Circulation and Lyft Team Up for Non-Emergency Medical Transportation
- Circulation secures $10.5 million in funding
- Uber, Lyft gear up to help get patients clinical trial sites
- Circulation Now Works with Both Uber and Lyft to Provide Rides to the Doctor
Interested in Learning More?
Visit Circulation’s website here or send IDHA an email at accelerator@childrens.harvard.edu!