Investment will further scale the nation's leading specialty care platform for surgery, infusions, and cancer care

投资将进一步扩大该国领先的外科、输液和癌症护理专业护理平台的规模。

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/PRNewswire/ -- Lantern, the leading Specialty Care Platform serving 12 million people across the U.S., today announced a $30 million investment led by Morgan Health – a division of JPMorganChase dedicated to improving employer-sponsored healthcare – and Echo Health Ventures, a strategic investment platform investing on behalf of multiple Blues health plans.

/PRNewswire/ -- 美国领先的特殊护理平台Lantern今天宣布，获得了一笔3000万美元的投资，此轮融资由摩根健康（Morgan Health，JPMorganChase旗下专注于改善雇主资助医疗保健的部门）和回声健康创投（Echo Health Ventures，代表多家蓝十字健康计划进行战略投资的平台）领投。该平台目前为美国1200万人提供服务。

The growth investment will support Lantern's expansion across public and private employers and health plans, building on its strong, proven track record of lowering the cost of specialty care in the United States while improving outcomes and experiences..

增长投资将支持Lantern在公共和私营雇主及健康计划领域的扩展，基于其在美国降低专业护理成本、改善结果与体验方面强大且经过验证的业绩记录。

'Specialty care is a primary driver of health care costs and contributes to the double-digit price escalation that most employers are experiencing. On top of that, consumers are increasingly frustrated with the lack of tools to navigate their conditions and are looking to their employers to ease this burden,' said Dan Mendelson, CEO of Morgan Health.

“专科护理是医疗成本的主要驱动因素，导致了大多数雇主正在经历的两位数价格飙升。除此之外，消费者对缺乏管理自身病情的工具感到越来越沮丧，并希望他们的雇主能够减轻这一负担，”摩根健康的首席执行官丹·门德尔松表示。

'Lantern's ability to improve outcomes and lower costs supports a healthier, more engaged workforce – and we're committed to accelerating their impact.'.

“灯笼的能力改善结果并降低成本，有利于更健康、更积极的员工队伍——我们致力于加速其影响。”

A New Approach to Specialty Care

专科护理的新方法

At the center of Lantern's approach is its breakthrough 'Network of Excellence' model. Rather than relying solely on traditional centers of excellence – which concentrate care within a limited number of facilities – Lantern negotiates directly with high-quality providers to create the most accessible, high-performing network in the country.

灯塔方法的核心是其突破性的“卓越网络”模式。该模式并非仅仅依赖于传统的卓越中心——这些中心将护理集中在少数设施内——而是直接与高质量的供应商协商，创建全国最便捷、最高绩效的网络。

Lantern's model works across the three largest cost centers in specialty care: surgery, cancer, and infusions, where site of care shifts combined with high-quality specialists demonstrate savings up to $20 per employee per month (PEPM) across Lantern's customers. Today, Lantern's clients include more than 1,000 of the largest public and private employers and unions in the U.S.

灯塔模型在专科护理的三大成本中心——手术、癌症和输液领域发挥作用。通过改变护理地点并结合高质量的专科医生，灯塔客户的每位员工每月可节省高达20美元（PEPM）。如今，灯塔的客户包括美国1000多家最大的公共和私营雇主及工会。

Lantern's platform is designed to:.

灯笼平台旨在：

Lower total medical spend:

降低总体医疗支出：

Lantern negotiates rates for surgery and other services that are up to 55% lower than average commercial reimbursement. This translates to 4% savings on overall healthcare costs (based on customer data) and more than $1 billion in cumulative savings across employers.

灯笼谈判的手术及其他服务费率比平均商业报销低至55%。这意味着整体医疗成本节省了4%（基于客户数据），并且跨雇主累计节省超过10亿美元。

Improve surgical outcomes:

改善手术结果：

Lantern's Network of Excellence is curated through in-depth, clinically nuanced review, including 300+ appropriateness and outcome measures, to deliver significantly lower complication rates compared to national benchmarks, exceptional patient-reported functional improvements, and industry-leading, specialist-driven surgical avoidance rates..

灯笼卓越网络通过深入、临床细致的审查进行管理，包括300多项适宜性和结果指标，以显著降低并发症发生率（相较于全国基准），实现卓越的患者报告功能改善和行业领先的专家主导手术规避率。

Reduce downstream costs:

减少下游成本：

Fewer complications mean fewer follow-up procedures, hospitalizations, and avoidable long-term conditions, resulting in long-term cost containment.

并发症越少，意味着后续治疗、住院和可避免的长期病症越少，从而实现长期的成本控制。

Deliver a better experience for members:

为会员提供更好的体验：

Lantern boasts an 85 NPS score. Members benefit from a 'white-glove' concierge service, including dedicated care advocates and nurse navigators.

Lantern 的 NPS 得分为 85。会员可享受“白手套”礼宾服务，包括专属护理专员和护士导航员。

'We are restoring basic market dynamics in specialty care to bend the healthcare cost curve,' said John Zutter, CEO of Lantern. 'We leverage robust cost analytics, clinical data on outcomes, appropriateness measures, and dynamic value-based contracting to get people to great care, close to home. Our partnership with Morgan Health and Echo Health Ventures will help accelerate our mission to transform access for millions more members in the moments that matter most.' .

“我们正在恢复专科护理的基本市场动态，以降低医疗成本曲线，”Lantern首席执行官约翰·祖特表示。“我们利用强大的成本分析、临床结果数据、适宜性指标和基于价值的动态合同，让人们能够在离家更近的地方获得优质的医疗服务。我们与摩根健康和回声健康创投的合作将有助于加速我们的使命，即在最重要的时刻为数百万更多成员改善医疗获取途径。”

'The high-cost specialty care market has needed a solution that meaningfully reduces costs while maintaining quality and access, and Lantern has built exactly that,' said Omair Ahmed, Principal at Echo Health Ventures. 'Lantern's Network of Excellence model delivers savings and clinical outcomes that we believe are uniquely differentiated in the market, and Echo is excited to support Lantern as they bring that value to more employers, plans, and members nationwide.'.

“高成本的专科护理市场需要一种能够有效降低成本同时保持质量和可及性的解决方案，而Lantern正好构建了这样的方案，”Echo Health Ventures的负责人奥米尔·艾哈迈德表示。“Lantern的卓越网络模式带来了我们相信在市场上独具差异化的节省效果和临床结果，Echo非常高兴支持Lantern将这种价值带给全国更多的雇主、计划和会员。”

Investment Follows Year of Exponential Growth

投资紧随指数增长的一年而来

In 2025, Lantern added more than 100 new clients representing millions of new member lives, including a landmark deal with the North Carolina State Health Plan to manage surgical care for over 500,000 state employees and their families and help overcome a $1.4 billion projected deficit in the State Health Plan.

2025年，Lantern新增了100多个客户，代表数百万新成员，其中包括与北卡罗来纳州健康计划达成的一项里程碑式协议，管理超过50万名州雇员及其家人的外科护理，并帮助克服州健康计划预计出现的14亿美元赤字。

Since 2025, Lantern has also added Thermo Fisher Scientific, Amtrak, Hillsborough County Schools, Cleveland Bakers and Teamsters Health & Welfare Fund, and other national employers..

自 2025 年以来，Lantern 还新增了赛默飞世尔科技、美国国家铁路客运公司、希尔斯伯勒县学校、克利夫兰面包师和卡车司机健康与福利基金以及其他全国性雇主。

In January, Specialist Management Solutions became part of Lantern, adding 4 million lives to its membership and an AI-native member outreach platform capability, which assists in identifying members earlier in their healthcare journey to get them to the right care, faster. Lantern recently expanded .

一月，专科管理解决方案成为 Lantern 的一部分，为其会员增加了 400 万用户，并增添了一个人工智能原生的会员外展平台功能，该功能有助于在会员的医疗保健旅程中更早地识别他们，以便更快地为他们提供适当的护理。Lantern 最近进行了扩展。

cancer navigation capabilities

癌症导航能力

in partnership with AccessHope to bring member access to expert review from National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer centers into community care. The company also recently launched a strategic partnership with

与AccessHope合作，为成员提供由国家癌症研究所指定的综合癌症中心的专家评审服务，融入社区医疗。该公司近期还与

Quantum Health

量子健康

to expand access to outcomes-based specialty care for employers nationwide. Lantern established partnerships with leading health plans to continue to make its services available to more employers, more easily, and with superior engagement and results.

向全国雇主扩展基于结果的专科护理服务。Lantern与领先的健康计划机构建立了合作伙伴关系，继续以更便捷的方式、更高的参与度和更优异的效果，将其服务推广给更多雇主。

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