Pear Therapeutics Looks For A Buyer As It Struggles To Get Paid For Prescription Apps

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via Pear Therapeutics, which has three FDA-cleared prescription apps to help treat substance use disorder and insomnia, announced Friday it was “exploring strategic alternatives,” including a sale, merger or licensing of assets, and would no longer hold a fourth quarter earnings call. The move highlights the main challenge facing companies developing software as medicine: getting commercial insurers and government health programs to pay for it.

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