Catalight and Frontera Partner to Reduce Cost and Improve Quality of Autism Care

As rising costs and inconsistent quality of care plague the autism industry, Frontera Health and Catalight today announced a new strategic partnership to address these critical challenges.  

Catalight is a leading nonprofit helping increase access to autism care. Frontera leverages its proprietary AI-powered solutions to reduce clinician burden and enable care to scale. 

Through the partnership, Catalight will leverage Frontera’s AI technology to support parent-mediated care delivery, streamline clinical assessment and documentation and expand access to high-quality autism care through service and training.  

“We’re proud to partner with Catalight to deploy Frontera’s technology to support parent-mediated care across their network of providers,” said Amol Deshpande, CEO and co-founder of Frontera Health. “Catalight has some of the most rigorous clinical standards in the industry and their selection of Frontera reflects our model and technology as we strive to better serve clinicians, improve the quality of care and reduce costs for families.” 

With rising healthcare costs and practitioner shortages across the industry, Frontera’s solutions help create a trusted, replicable approach to help ease the administrative burdens of clinicians while accelerating access to care for families. Catalight plans to integrate the technology into its tools for assessments, care services and newly expanded Catalight Academy training services for practitioners.   

“Catalight and Frontera are very much aligned on values – it’s all about access and sustainability. Services are, unfortunately, often driven by quantity over quality,” said Catalight’s Chief Health Officer Tracy Gayeski, Psy. D, MBA. “The system today for many is too hard to navigate, too slow to diagnose and treat, and costs too much with little evidence of effectiveness. We’ve found a partner in Frontera to challenge the status quo and help reimagine the future of the industry. We’re responsibly disrupting for the benefit of the individuals and families we serve. With Frontera’s advanced technology and Catalight’s breadth and depth in clinical research and care services, we’re coming together to lead change by building on the strengths of both organizations.”  

Catalight, one of the largest behavioral health nonprofits in the United States with a network of more than 16,000 practitioners, serves 24,000 patients and families annually. Frontera has pioneered industry-first technology solutions helping clinicians see more patients, better serve families and help reduce costs – while piloting across their own clinics in New Mexico and Colorado.  
 
Contact:  

Media Contact:
Keith Ferguson
Director of Marketing and Communications
Catalight

Sara Williams 
Frontera Health