Alera Health

What Alera Health does

Alera Health, originally founded in 2016-2017 as Blaze Advisors, Inc. and rebranded effective January 1, 2023, is a private population health management company headquartered in Wilmington, NC. The company builds and operates Clinically Integrated Networks (CINs) branded as ONEcare Networks, which organize primary care providers, behavioral health specialists, hospitals, and social care organizations into coordinated systems of care for members with complex co-occurring behavioral and medical conditions. Alera Health manages multiple regional ONEcare Network implementations: Affiliated Network Providers (ANP) and Integral Health Network of Southern Arizona (IHNSA) in Arizona, NC ONEcare and Children First of North Carolina (CFNC) in North Carolina, the Ohio Behavioral Healthcare Provider Network (OBHPN) in Ohio, and the newly launched ONEcare Network of Georgia. Collectively, these networks encompass 150+ provider organizations representing approximately 15,000 clinicians and serve millions of members across managed cost of care exceeding $3.6B.

The company's core technology is the Care Optimization Suite (COS), a six-module platform comprising ONEinsight (enterprise data warehouse and population health analytics with AI/ML), ONElink (care coordination messaging), ONEview (360-degree patient dashboard), ONEtouch (member mobile app), ONEsync (multi-disciplinary care team coordination), and ONEknowledge (learning management). Additional capabilities include the Clinical Intelligence Engine (CIE) for EHR data aggregation and MARIA, an AI research assistant launched in April 2026 for natural language population health queries. Alera Health maintains SOC 2 Type II certification and integrates with Infina Connect for e-referral functionality.

The business model combines value-based care contracts with Managed Care Organizations, recurring network management fees paid by participating provider networks, and technology platform licensing through the COS. Named enterprise clients and partners include Banner Health (also Series A lead investor in June 2022), Molina Healthcare of Ohio, Mercy Care, and Banner University Family Care. Go-to-market is enterprise field sales targeting MCOs and health systems, supplemented by information sessions and selective provider recruitment into network participation. The company has 15-49 employees and has raised $6M in a single disclosed funding round.

Name

Alera Health

Legal name

Blaze Advisors, Inc.

Website

https://alerahealth.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Alera Health is a private population health management company that builds and operates ONEcare Networks—Clinically Integrated Networks uniting behavioral health, primary care, hospital, and social care providers. It serves Managed Care Organizations, health systems, and providers across AZ, NC, OH, and GA, monetizing through value-based contracts and network management fees.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Population Health Management

NAICS

Health Care and Social Assistance (62), Outpatient Mental Health and Substance Abuse Centers (621420)

SIC

Services-Health Services (8000), Services-Misc Health & Allied Services, Nec (8090), Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373)

akta.pro primary industry

Medicare Provider Networks & Delegated Medical Groups (MA-focused) (FSAIAGAK)

akta.pro secondary industries

Provider Network & Care Management for Commercial Members (HLAEAAAL), Primary Care Networks, Groups & MSOs (HLAFAGAE), Omnichannel Patient Communications & Contact Center (Voice/SMS/Email/Chat) (HLACAEAC)

Keywords

• Clinically integrated networks
• Population health management
• Behavioral health integration
• Value-based care
• Care coordination

Headquarters

HQ city

Wilmington

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Value-Based Care Contracts with MCOs: Alera Health organizes ONEcare Networks that collectively earn performance-based incentives for improving health outcomes and reducing cost of care. These incentives pass down to participating providers. The company maintains standardized fee-for-service and value-based contracts with national and regional MCOs defining attributed populations, expected outcomes, and performance targets.
2. Network Management Fees: The company provides network management, actuarial and analytic support, and QI/practice transformation services to ONEcare Networks in exchange for management fees.
3. Technology Platform Licensing: ONEcare Networks receive access to the Care Optimization Suite (ONEinsight, ONElink, ONEview, ONEtouch, ONEsync, ONEknowledge) as part of network participation, which may include licensing components.

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Alera Health builds and operates Clinically Integrated Networks (CINs) branded as ONEcare Networks, which organize primary care, behavioral health, hospital, and social care providers to coordinate whole-person care for members with co-occurring behavioral health and medical conditions under value-based contracts with MCOs. The networks are supported by a proprietary Care Optimization Suite (COS) technology platform covering analytics, care coordination, patient engagement, mobile access, and learning management, and the company provides network management, actuarial, analytic, and practice transformation services to participating providers and payors.

Product overview

Alera Health operates as a population health management company offering a platform-plus-modules architecture built around ONEcare Networks, which are Clinically Integrated Networks (CINs) connecting behavioral health, primary care, hospitals, and social care providers. The core Care Optimization Suite (COS) comprises six integrated technology modules: ONEinsight (analytics), ONElink (communication), ONEview (patient dashboard), ONEtouch (mobile app), ONEsync (care coordination), and ONEknowledge (learning management). Additional offerings include MARIA AI Research Assistant for natural language data queries and the Clinical Intelligence Engine (CIE) for EHR data aggregation. The company manages multiple regional ONEcare Network implementations across Arizona, North Carolina, Ohio, and Georgia, each serving populations with complex behavioral and medical health needs.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• ONEcare: Integrated System of Care (ISC) deployed by a network of primary care, hospital, and behavioral health providers that coordinate early disease identification, communication, priority access to care, and trust between patients and their care teams.
• Care Optimization Suite (COS)
• ONEinsight
• ONElink
• ONEview
• ONEtouch
• ONEsync
• ONEknowledge
• MARIA

Products and services

• ONEcare Networks Clinically Integrated Networks (CINs) organizing primary care, behavioral health, hospital, and social care providers to coordinate whole-person care for members with co-occurring behavioral health and medical conditions under value-based contracts, with participating providers serving as care 'quarterbacks' earning performance-based incentives.
• Care Optimization Suite (COS) Enterprise technology platform comprising integrated tools (ONEinsight data warehouse/analytics, ONElink care coordination messaging, ONEview patient dashboard, ONEtouch member mobile app, ONEsync care team coordination, and ONEknowledge learning management system) designed to maximize network performance through data-driven insights, care coordination, and patient engagement for ONEcare Network participants.
• MARIA AI Research Assistant AI-powered research assistant for population health analytics and healthcare data insights that enables natural-language queries and provides conversational access to healthcare data, predictive insights, and analytic findings.
• Clinical Intelligence Engine (CIE) Customized population health platform that extracts and integrates data from disparate EHR and para-EHR sources—including ADT, claims, pharmacy, laboratory, remote monitoring, care management, ambulatory, and social services systems—into a master data aggregation and reporting engine providing comprehensive patient views for population health analysis.
• NC ONEcare, LLC Premier clinically integrated network in North Carolina for patients suffering from primary and secondary behavioral health conditions, featuring 33 provider participants managing approximately $900M in total cost of care for 235,114 attributed lives.
• Children First of North Carolina, LLC Clinically Integrated Network of certified Advanced Medical Home Tier 3 pediatric providers delivering whole-person care for children and families, including those in child welfare and juvenile justice systems, managing $350M in total cost of care for 103,237 lives.
• Affiliated Network Providers (ANP) Clinically Integrated Network covering metropolitan areas of central Arizona including Phoenix, providing a full continuum of behavioral health, primary care, and crisis services for vulnerable citizens, with 7 participants managing $922M in total cost of care for 185,000 touched lives.
• Integral Health Network of Southern Arizona (IHNSA) Clinically Integrated Network spanning Bisbee to Yuma, providing the majority of behavioral health services for Southern Arizona residents—including psychiatry, therapy, community-based, residential, inpatient, and crisis services—with 5 participants managing $277M in total cost of care for 120,000 lives.
• Ohio Behavioral Healthcare Provider Network (OBHPN) Independent Provider Association comprising 26 CMHCs and FQHCs providing quality-driven integrated health services to more than 225,000 Ohioans statewide, managing $1.2B in total cost of care across 27 participants.
• ONEcare Network of Georgia Newly established Clinically Integrated Network formed in 2026 through collaboration of 14 Community Service Boards to strengthen behavioral health care delivery and long-term sustainability in Georgia.

Quantifiable outcome

• ONEcare networks saved over $200M in 2023, improving health outcomes and maximizing value-based earnings for participants
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments7 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration6 records

AI capability5 records

Feature10 records

Partnerships

Eleven partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• Aurora Behavioral HealthminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 September 2024Affiliated Network Providers (ANP) and Aurora Behavioral Health forged a high-value partnership to enhance behavioral health services and collaboration of care in Maricopa County, Arizona.
• BenchmarkscoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 April 2024Benchmarks, the largest specialty healthcare provider association in North Carolina, partnered with NC ONEcare to revolutionize healthcare for children and families in North Carolina through enhanced care coordination.
• LifeScience TechnologiesminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 November 2023Alera Health and LifeScience Technologies collaborated to transform behavioral health care management with customized digital tools, combining LifeScience's technology capabilities with Alera Health's population health expertise.
• OPEN MINDScoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 July 2022OPEN MINDS and Blaze Advisors engaged in a new collaborative partnership for 2022-2023, providing industry visibility and thought leadership opportunities for Alera Health.
• Infina ConnectcoreTechnology or IntegrationThe Care Optimization System (COS) is powered by Infina Connect technology, providing enhanced e-referral capabilities including clinical matching, secure messaging, geo-mapping, and referral tracking metrics.
• Network Providers - Arizona (ANP)coreOthersNetwork includes Horizon Health and Wellness, Community Bridges Inc, Southwest Network, Lifewell, Terros, COPA, and EMPACT: La Frontera providing behavioral health, primary care, and crisis services across central Arizona.
• Network Providers - Arizona (IHNSA)coreOthersNetwork includes CODAC, HOPE, and La Frontera providing behavioral health services spanning Bisbee to Yuma across Southern Arizona.
• Network Providers - Ohio (OBHPN)coreOthersNetwork comprises 26 CMHCs and FQHCs providing quality-driven integrated health services across Ohio including Allwell Behavioral Health Services, Appleseed Community Health Center, Greater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services, and 23 others.
• Network Providers - North Carolina (NC ONEcare)coreOthersNetwork includes 33 provider organizations across North Carolina including Alexander Youth Network, Amara Wellness, Cape Fear Valley Health, Carolina Outreach, Monarch, and others serving members with behavioral health conditions.
• Network Providers - North Carolina (CFNC)coreOthersChildren First of North Carolina network includes Salisbury Pediatric Associates, Thomasville-Archdale Pediatrics, and Children's Health Of Carolina providing pediatric care for Medicaid eligible children.
• Network Providers - GeorgiacoreOthersONEcare Network of Georgia includes 14 Community Service Boards including Advantage Behavioral Health Systems, Aspire BH & DD Services, Avita Community Partners, Bridge Health, and others forming the new CIN in 2026.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Evolent Health: Evolent Health operates a value-based specialty care platform with a strong behavioral health focus, partnering with health plans to take risk for specialty populations. Directly comparable to Alera's model of organizing provider networks and assuming delegated responsibility for attributed behavioral health populations.
• Agilon Health: Agilon Health partners with PCPs to take global risk for Medicare Advantage populations through value-based contracts. Comparable to Alera in its provider-enablement, delegated-risk model, though Agilon targets senior MA populations and Alera targets behavioral health populations.
• Privia Health: Privia Health provides a provider enablement platform with single-specialty and multi-specialty medical groups operating under value-based contracts. Comparable to Alera in building clinically integrated provider networks, though Privia is broader in scope and publicly traded.
• Lightbeam Health Solutions: Lightbeam Health provides population health management, analytics, and care coordination technology for providers and payors in value-based arrangements. Comparable to Alera's Care Optimization Suite in functionality and target customer base of risk-bearing provider networks.
• Innovaccer: Innovaccer is a healthcare data and population health management platform that aggregates clinical, claims, and social data to power value-based care. Closely comparable to Alera's Care Optimization Suite and Clinical Intelligence Engine, with overlapping customer base of payors and provider networks.
• Aledade: Aledade partners with independent primary care practices to build ACOs and value-based care arrangements with payors. Highly comparable to Alera's clinically integrated network model, though Aledade focuses on primary care ACOs while Alera focuses on behavioral-health-led CINs.
• Arcadia: Arcadia provides a population health management and analytics platform used by provider groups and payors to manage value-based contracts. Comparable technology stack to Alera's ONEinsight/Clinical Intelligence Engine, with similar focus on data aggregation and care gap closure.

Broad incumbents

• Molina Healthcare: Molina Healthcare is a major Medicaid managed care organization and an existing Alera partner (invested $1.25M into OBHPN). Relevant as both a current customer/partner and as a scaled incumbent that could expand in-house behavioral health CIN capability.
• Centene Corporation: Centene is the largest Medicaid managed care insurer in the US and a large purchaser of behavioral health delegated services. Relevant as a buyer/competitor of the kind of behavioral health network management services Alera provides through its ONEcare Networks.
• Health Catalyst: Health Catalyst is a larger, publicly traded healthcare data and analytics company serving health systems, payors, and ACOs. Comparable to Alera in offering data warehousing and analytics but operates at a broader, enterprise-health-system scale rather than focusing on behavioral health CINs.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance2 records

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles11 records

Subsidiaries6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

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