About Bright Heart Health
Bright Heart Health is a California-based telehealth provider (headquartered in Walnut Creek) that delivers addiction, eating disorder, mental health and chronic pain programs by video. Its eating disorder program, which it says was the first telemedicine eating disorder program accredited by the Joint Commission, offers intensive outpatient (about 11 hours a week), outpatient and support groups for anorexia, bulimia, binge eating and other eating disorders. Its opioid program prescribes buprenorphine (Suboxone), with physician visits every one to two weeks and video counseling. Its pages say it accepts most major insurance, Medicare and Medicaid in some states (such as California and North Carolina), and offers a sliding scale for self-pay; medication costs are separate. State pages exist for California and North Carolina and a New York telepractice clinic is listed; current states per program were not confirmed. The company has described a preliminary study with a Stanford researcher, but no published study of its programs was found.