INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
According to Parsley Health, the average adult spends 19 minutes with their physician every year
costs while the average person gets sicker
The company focuses on the cause of an illness rather than simply throwing Band-Aids at the problem
But in order to do this, your doctor needs far more than 19 minutes of your time each year.Today, Parsley announced the close of a $10
million Series A funding led by FirstMark Capital, with participation from Amplo, Trail Mix Ventures, Combine and The Chernin Group
Individual investors such as Dr
Mark Hyman, M.D., director of the Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine; Nat Turner, CEO of Flatiron Health; Neil Parikh,
co-founder of Casper; and Dave Gilboa, co-founder of Warby Parker, also invested in the round.As part of the financing, FirstMark Capital
about themselves, from family health history to past procedures to symptoms and lifestyle
The user then schedules their first visit with their new doctor, which will last for 75 minutes, during which time the doctor will
The patient also leaves with a health plan, including lifestyle nutritional advice, and access to their own health coach
Parsley also writes prescriptions, when necessary, and refers patients to top-of-the-line specialists, if needed.Membership includes five
annual visits with their doctors (which rounds out to about four hours), as well as five sessions with their certified health coach
doctors and health coaches are full-time employees at Parsley, and Dr
Berzin told TechCrunch that the company sees a lot of inbound from doctors who want to spend more time with patients and help solve the root
of their problems.Parsley also trains their doctors in functional medicine, which uses a systems-biology approach to better resolve and
diagnose and treat diseases at their origin.Parsley is not the first in the space
Forward and One Medical also look to change the way that healthcare is provided in this country, while NextHealth Technologies is focused on
