Kalamos Care

What Kalamos Care does

Kalamos Care, Inc. is a private U.S. telehealth company founded in 2018 and headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, that delivers culturally competent behavioral health interventions to patients on antiretroviral therapy (ART) or HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) medications. The company's core offering is an Integrated Behavioral Health (BHI) service in which Kalamos hires, trains, and deploys mental health professionals to provide on-demand, CDC-approved adherence counseling to mid-market primary care clinics and the patients they serve, particularly within LGBTQ+ populations facing disproportionately high mental health burdens. The supporting product surface includes an on-demand Kalamos Therapist Network that clinics can scale without hiring, training, or scheduling overhead, and a Therapist Practice Program that lets independent clinicians join the referral stream without bearing insurance credentialing costs.

The business model centers on translating research-backed behavioral health interventions into reimbursable services via BHI billing codes embedded in existing primary care insurance contracts, which structurally removes credentialing friction for both clinics and therapists. Kalamos operates a sales-led go-to-market with direct partnerships to primary care physicians and clinics, supplemented by a channel/partner motion that recruits therapists through the same BHI reimbursement pathway. Services are currently delivered across three U.S. states (California, New Jersey, and New York). The company emphasizes identity-aligned, queer-led clinical teams as a differentiator against mainstream behavioral health providers, and frames its work within a broader sexual wellness mission while the commercial product currently concentrates on HIV care continuum adherence.

Name

Kalamos Care

Legal name

Kalamos Care, Inc.

Website

https://kalamos.care

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Kalamos Care is a U.S. telehealth company that delivers culturally competent, CDC-approved behavioral health interventions to patients on ART or PrEP medications via Integrated Behavioral Health partnerships with primary care clinics and a queer-led therapist network across California, New Jersey, and New York.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Integrated Behavioral Health Services

NAICS

Outpatient Mental Health and Substance Abuse Centers (621420), Offices of Mental Health Practitioners (except Physicians) (621330)

SIC

Services-Health Services (8000)

akta.pro primary industry

Integrated Behavioral Health in Primary Care (Collaborative Care) (HLAFACAO)

akta.pro secondary industries

Virtual Behavioral Health Integration Platforms (HLALABAE), Integrated Behavioral Health (Collaborative Care) Platforms (HLALAEAC)

Keywords

• Behavioral health services
• Integrated care
• Mental health support
• Medication adherence
• Telehealth therapy

Headquarters

HQ city

Brooklyn

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Behavioral Health Integration (BHI) Reimbursement: Kalamos translates research-backed behavioral health interventions into reimbursable services through insurance billing codes. Integrated Behavioral Health allows therapist care to be covered by existing insurance contracts without additional credentialing costs.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Kalamos Care hires, trains, and deploys mental health professionals to deliver on-demand, CDC-approved evidence-based behavioral health interventions for patients on ART or PrEP medications, with a focus on culturally competent care for LGBTQ+ populations. The company integrates these behavioral health services into primary care clinics through an Integrated Behavioral Health (BHI) model that converts research-backed interventions into reimbursable services covered by existing insurance contracts, eliminating the need for expensive insurance credentialing.

Product overview

Kalamos Care operates a unified telehealth platform centered on Integrated Behavioral Health (BHI), which integrates mental health professionals into primary care clinics to provide culturally competent behavioral health interventions for patients on ART or PrEP medications. The platform is supported by an on-demand therapist network (Kalamos Therapist Network) that clinics can access without hiring or training overhead, and a corresponding Therapist Practice Program that enables mental health professionals to join the network and receive BHI referrals. The core BHI service enables clinics to offer mental health support covered by existing insurance contracts, while the therapist-facing components allow independent practitioners to serve underserved populations with measurable patient outcomes.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Integrated Behavioral Health (BHI)
• Kalamos Therapist Network
• Therapist Practice Program

Quantifiable outcome

• 68% improvement in daily medication adherence with targeted behavioral health interventions
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Primary Care Physicians and ClinicscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerKalamos partners with primary care physicians to deliver Integrated Behavioral Health (BHI) services. Clinics avoid the cost of recruiting, hiring, and training mental health specialists by partnering with Kalamos's on-demand network of specially trained therapists.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Folx Health: LGBTQ+-focused virtual care company offering PrEP, HRT, and primary care. Direct competitor for the LGBTQ+ patient population that Kalamos targets, particularly for PrEP adherence and culturally competent care.
• Alma: Therapist network platform that helps independent mental health practitioners accept insurance and run practices. Direct comparator for Kalamos's therapist-facing network and insurance credentialing value proposition.
• Plume: Telehealth platform providing gender-affirming hormone therapy and LGBTQ+ care. Targets an overlapping LGBTQ+ patient population with a similar cultural-competence positioning.
• Eleanor Health: Delivers integrated mental health and substance use care through community-based clinics using value-based reimbursement models. Comparable in its clinic-embedded, insurance-billed behavioral health model targeting underserved populations.
• Concert Health: Provides Integrated Behavioral Health (BHI) services into primary care clinics using collaborative care billing codes, the same operating model as Kalamos. Direct competitor for primary care clinic partnerships and BHI reimbursement-driven therapy delivery.

Broad incumbents

• Headspace Health: Combined Ginger and Headspace offering mental health coaching, therapy, and psychiatry via virtual channels. Large incumbent in the virtual behavioral health space Kalamos occupies.
• Talkspace: Public telehealth therapy and psychiatry platform with payer and employer partnerships. Overlapping virtual behavioral health delivery model with insurance reimbursement focus.
• Lyra Health: Large mental health benefits platform serving employers with therapy, coaching, and medication management. Operates at much larger scale with similar integrated-care philosophy but broader population focus.

Emerging players

• Meru Health: Digital mental health program combining virtual therapy with physician oversight and outcomes measurement. Comparable in its outcomes-oriented, integrated-care approach enabled by reimbursement infrastructure.
• Charlie Health: Virtual intensive outpatient program (IOP) for adolescents and young adults with mental health and substance use conditions. Comparable virtual-first, insurance-reimbursed behavioral health model targeting underserved populations.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/kalamos-care

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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