Arete Healthcare Services

What Arete Healthcare Services does

Arete Healthcare Services, operating under the trade name Arete Health, is a US-based private healthcare company headquartered in the Dallas / North Texas region. The firm's core offering is HealthShield, a subscription healthcare plan priced at $65 per household per month that bundles primary care, urgent care, 24/7 telehealth, behavioral health, dental, vision, and prescription drug support. The product is positioned as an affordable alternative to employer-sponsored insurance for a narrowly defined customer base.

HealthShield is distributed and acquired almost entirely through a single strategic channel: a partnership with the Dallas-Dallas County Food Collaborative, which itself sits inside the broader Dallas-Dallas County Food Plan — a coalition of more than 450 organizations working on regional food system resilience and addressing food insecurity affecting roughly one in eight North Texas residents. The company is small (1-10 employees) and its stated operating geography is limited to Dallas and North Texas, with no disclosed expansion, funding, M&A, or management team information.

The business model is a straight recurring subscription: flat-rate monthly billing per household, sold direct-to-consumer through the partner network rather than through traditional insurance intermediaries. Notably, firmographic metadata also references EHR, patient portal, practice management, and billing services, which is inconsistent with the body of source material describing a consumer subscription plan; the recurring-subscriber model reflected in pricing, GTM, and partnership descriptions is the substantiated view of the business. No revenue, funding, customer count, leadership, or AI/technology detail is publicly disclosed beyond the items above.

Name

Arete Healthcare Services

Legal name

Arete Healthcare Services

Website

https://aretehs.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Arete Healthcare Services (Arete Health) sells HealthShield, a $65/household-per-month subscription healthcare plan covering primary, urgent, telehealth, behavioral, dental, vision, and prescription services for food industry workers and entrepreneurs in Dallas/North Texas, distributed via the Dallas-Dallas County Food Collaborative.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Healthcare Services

NAICS

Direct Health and Medical Insurance Carriers (524114)

SIC

Services-Health Services (8000), Services-Offices & Clinics Of Doctors Of Medicine (8011)

akta.pro primary industry

Membership/Subscription Concierge Virtual Care (HLALAAAH)

akta.pro secondary industry

Value-Based Primary Care Organizations (Risk-Bearing) (HLAFAGAF)

Keywords

• Healthcare subscription
• Direct primary care
• Telehealth coverage
• Behavioral health services
• Community health programs

Headquarters

HQ city

Birmingham

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Healthcare Subscription (HealthShield): The company generates revenue through a subscription-based healthcare plan priced at $65 per household per month. The HealthShield program provides comprehensive coverage including primary care, urgent care, 24/7 telehealth, behavioral health, dental, vision, and prescription drug support, offering an alternative to traditional employer-based insurance for gig and food industry workers.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Arete Healthcare Services sells a subscription healthcare coverage plan called HealthShield, priced at $65 per household per month, that bundles primary care, urgent care, 24/7 telehealth, behavioral health, dental, vision, and prescription drug support for food industry workers and entrepreneurs. The product is marketed through a strategic partnership with the Dallas-Dallas County Food Collaborative rather than through traditional insurance broker channels.

Product overview

Arete Healthcare Services offers a single unified healthcare product called HealthShield, a comprehensive coverage program designed specifically for food industry workers and entrepreneurs. The program provides bundled access to primary care, urgent care, telehealth, behavioral health, dental, vision, and prescription drug services through a partnership with the Dallas-Dallas County Food Collaborative, addressing the gap for workers who lack traditional employer-based insurance.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• HealthShield: Healthcare program providing primary care, urgent care, 24/7 telehealth, behavioral health, dental, vision, and prescription drug support for food industry workers.

Products and services

• HealthShield Subscription-based healthcare coverage program providing comprehensive household medical benefits — primary care, urgent care, 24/7 telehealth, behavioral health, dental, vision, and prescription drug support — at $65 per household per month for food industry workers and entrepreneurs who lack traditional employer-sponsored insurance.

Quantifiable outcome

• Healthcare coverage at $65 per household per month — significantly below typical individual market premiums

Named customers2 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Dallas-Dallas County Food CollaborativecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 23 April 2026Arete Health has launched its HealthShield healthcare program in partnership with the Dallas-Dallas County Food Collaborative to provide affordable healthcare coverage ($65/household/month) for food industry workers and entrepreneurs. The collaboration is part of the broader Dallas-Dallas County Food Plan, which involves over 450 organizations working to strengthen the regional food system and address food insecurity affecting one in eight North Texas residents.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• One Medical: One Medical (owned by Amazon) operates a membership-based primary care model combining in-person and 24/7 virtual care, primarily serving insured tech employees and consumers. HealthShield packages a similar primary-care-plus-virtual concept but targets un/underinsured populations at a much lower price point.
• Included Health: Included Health provides virtual primary care, behavioral health, and care navigation as an integrated membership benefit, often via employer sponsors. Overlaps with HealthShield on the bundled benefit architecture and care-navigation concept, though delivered at employer scale.
• Hims & Hers Health: Hims & Hers operates a direct-to-consumer subscription telehealth and pharmacy model, with a broad benefit expansion into primary care. Comparable to HealthShield as a DTC subscription health product, though focused on insured/consumer-pay customers rather than a workforce partnership GTM.

Direct peers

• Sesame: Sesame is a cash-pay and membership healthcare marketplace offering direct, affordable access to primary, urgent, mental health, and specialty care. Its 'cash-pay, no-insurance-required' framing and household-friendly pricing concept overlap with HealthShield's value proposition.
• Catch: Catch offers portable, individual benefits including health coverage for gig and freelance workers who don't receive employer-sponsored plans. The 'individual, not employer-sponsored' positioning and target worker segments map closely to Arete's HealthShield thesis.
• Stride Health: Stride provides individual and family health insurance recommendations and coverage options specifically targeted at self-employed and gig-economy workers — the same underserved population that HealthShield targets, with a comparable mission of making coverage accessible to those without employer-sponsored plans.
• Mira: Mira offers affordable membership-based healthcare access (telehealth, urgent care, prescriptions, specialists) for uninsured and underinsured consumers. The flat-fee subscription model and focus on affordability without traditional insurance are structurally similar to HealthShield.
• K Health: K Health is a direct-to-consumer virtual primary care platform with a subscription/membership model that includes 24/7 telehealth access — directly comparable to the membership-concierge virtual care core of HealthShield.

Emerging players

• Seso: Seso provides workforce management software and benefits (including healthcare) for agricultural and food-system employers. Comparable to Arete in its focus on food-and-agriculture workers, though positioned for H-2A employers rather than individual household subscription.
• Chapter: Chapter is a Medicare-focused advisory and navigation platform helping seniors optimize supplemental coverage. Relevant as a peer in the 'membership-based consumer advocacy for healthcare navigation' category, though operating in a different demographic segment than HealthShield.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/Arete-Healthcare-Services-LLC-1144553628895749
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/arete-health-llc

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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