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Fidelity Health Recommends Outcomes-Based Provider Matching and Highlights TOP Match™
In its July 2026 report, The Next Frontier in Workplace Mental Health: Why Employers Can’t Ignore Substance Use Challenges in the Workforce, Fidelity Health recommends that employers use provider outcomes to improve matching for employees seeking substance-use treatment—and highlights TOP Match™ as an example. Fidelity urges employers to “take a more active role in understanding provider quality and leveraging outcomes-based referral tools.”
Aug 181 min read
Outcome Referrals Hosts National Convening on Patient-Matching Research Study Mental Health Outcomes, Adoption Strategies
BOSTON and CHICAGO – February 26, 2026 – In collaboration with the Midwest Business Group on Health, Outcome Referrals, Inc. will bring together employers, payers, clinicians, and patient advocates on March 12 for an event focused on improving mental health care and outcomes. Attendees will learn about a patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness research (CER) study that found individuals paired with therapists through a model that matched patients with therapis
Feb 252 min read


Talkspace Doubles Down
Talkspace Inc. (Nasdaq: TALK) has teamed up with a patient-provider matching software provider that also assesses the skills and...
Aug 13, 20251 min read
Talkspace Adopts Express Access—an AI-Powered Referral Infrastructure to Help PCPs and Employers Deliver Personalized Mental Health Care Faster Than Ever
NEW YORK and BOSTON – August 12, 2025 – Talkspace , a leading virtual behavioral health provider, and Express Access , the National...
Aug 12, 20253 min read


PCORI
PCORI has approved Phase 2 of it's first-ever phased dissemination grant, scaling TOP Match CER findings nationally through a partnership...
Jul 15, 20251 min read


AAFP
The American Academy of Family Physicians emailed their 130,000 PCP members announcing a new partnership with Outcome Referrals promoting...
May 18, 20251 min read


ACOFP
Dr. Kraus, CEO of Outcome Referrals and developer of TOP, TOP Match, and Express Access presented on the science of behavioral health...
Apr 19, 20251 min read


NIH
NIH Funding of the prototype development of Express Access, a new national infrastructure to speed behavioral health patients to high...
Dec 17, 20241 min read
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