New York-based Sense Health has struck a partnership with Coordinated Behavioral Care (CBC)’s Health Home, which provides care coordination to Medicaid beneficiaries with serious behavioral and/or medical conditions.

Under the deal, CBC is deploying Sense Health with 12 of its NYC care management agencies to enable two-way text message communication between care coordinators and patients. Also, with Sense Health’s platform patients will benefit from motivational, and reminder messages for medication adherence and appointments.

“Sense Health’s technology will equip CBC’s care coordinators with an additional tool to engage and further communicate with their clients about the importance of managing their conditions, including their medical appointments and taking their medications,” Danika Mills, CBC’s Executive Director, said in a statement. “Many do not have family or other caregivers to help. Sense Health’s platform will increase our capacity to do more for clients in order to keep them healthy.”

This partnership comes at a time when New York State (NYS), the country’s second largest state Medicaid program, undergoes a $6.42 billion delivery system redesign (DSRIP) with the overall goal to reduce avoidable hospital use by 25 percent.

The initial Sense Health roll-out with CBC will have the potential to reach over 1,500 Medicaid Members in NYC.

Last year, the company successfully tested its platform in a 1,000 person study of patients with diabetes and hypertension.