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Spring Health
Employer mental health benefit that puts a share of its own fee at risk against measured symptom improvement
As of 1 September 2026, Spring Health's pricing is not published; the vendor quotes on request. Spring Health replaces or wraps a traditional employee assistance programme with precision-matched therapy, psychiatry and coaching. Softwr lists it under HR. Spring Health is made by Spring Care, Inc. trading as Spring Health, available on Web, iOS, Android.
Overview
What Spring Health does
Spring Health sells a mental health benefit to employers and health plans covering assessment, a matched therapist or psychiatric provider, coaching, medication management and care navigation. Members complete a validated assessment, typically PHQ-9 and GAD-7, and the platform matches them to a provider and care level rather than sending them to a general directory. Sessions are usually delivered as a defined number of employer-sponsored visits before the member steps into their health plan benefit. The commercially distinguishing element is the pricing structure. Spring Health has pushed an outcomes-based model in which a portion of the fee is at risk against measured improvement in assessment scores rather than being paid purely on access or utilisation. That matters because the traditional employee assistance programme is priced at a low per employee per month rate with utilisation in the low single digits, and employers have no way to tell whether the money bought anything. Spring Health measures repeatedly through treatment and reports the change. The catch is that improvement is measured among people who engage, which is not the same as improvement across the workforce, and the at risk portion is a slice of the fee rather than all of it. Buyers are mid-market and enterprise employers, usually through a benefits consultant, replacing an incumbent employee assistance programme. Pricing is per employee per month and not published; publicly the chief executive has indicated employers should expect something in the range of one hundred to one hundred and fifty dollars per employee per year, which is several times a conventional EAP rate. That is the number that decides most deals, and it is why Spring Health rarely wins where the buyer only wants a compliance-grade EAP box ticked.
What people use it for
- An employer replacing an EAP with two percent utilisation that cannot demonstrate any clinical effect to its board
- A benefits team facing long external waiting lists for therapy that are showing up in absence and disability claims
- A distributed workforce where the incumbent EAP provider network is thin outside major metropolitan areas
- A health plan wanting to add a behavioural health layer without building a provider network itself
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Where it falls short
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- Per employee per month cost is several times a conventional employee assistance programme, reported publicly at roughly one hundred to one hundred and fifty dollars per employee per year, so the business case has to rest on measured outcomes rather than price.
- Outcomes-based pricing only puts a portion of the fee at risk, and the measured cohort is people who engaged, which flatters the reported improvement relative to any effect across the whole workforce.
- Sponsored sessions run out, and members who need longer treatment are handed to their health plan benefit where network adequacy and cost sharing may be exactly the problem they came to avoid.
- The eligibility file integration is a real HR IT project, and employers with messy dependent and contractor data spend meaningful effort before launch.
- Coverage and provider depth outside the United States is thinner than the domestic network, so multinational employers usually end up running a second vendor for other regions.
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Pricing
What Spring Health costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Spring Health employer programme
On request
- Per employee per month, invoiced to the employer, with an eligibility file feed
- Portion of fee available at risk against measured symptom outcomes
- Sponsored session count negotiated per contract
- Minimum eligible population typically applies for mid-market and above
Capabilities
Features
Precision matching
Assessment-driven allocation to a specific provider and care level rather than a directory search
Sponsored session model
A defined number of employer-funded therapy sessions before the health plan benefit takes over
Psychiatry and medication management
Prescribing care alongside therapy rather than referring out
Coaching tier
Non-clinical coaching for sub-threshold presentations to preserve clinical capacity
Repeated outcome measurement
PHQ-9 and GAD-7 tracked through treatment, not just at intake
Outcomes-based fee
Portion of vendor fee contingent on measured symptom change
Manager and workforce reporting
Aggregate, de-identified utilisation and outcome reporting for HR
Care navigation
Escalation into higher acuity care and substance use pathways
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Questions people ask
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How is it priced?
Per employee per month, billed to the employer, with a portion available at risk against measured outcomes. Rates are not published; public statements from the company suggest roughly one hundred to one hundred and fifty dollars per employee per year.
Who pays, the employer or the health plan?
Usually the employer, for the sponsored session block. After those sessions the member typically continues under their health plan benefit with normal cost sharing.
What does outcomes-based pricing actually guarantee?
That a defined portion of the vendor fee is contingent on measured change in assessment scores among engaged members. It is not a guarantee of workforce-level improvement.
Is there a minimum headcount?
Yes in practice. Spring Health sells to mid-market and enterprise employers and health plans; very small employers are not the target and usually cannot get a quote.
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