🌿 About Grooply
The future of healthcare is social.
When providers can prescribe belonging the way they prescribe medicine, everything changes — for every patient, every practice, every health system.
💰 Financial impact
Loneliness is a trillion-dollar drain on our economy and healthcare system
The cost of loneliness isn't just human — it's fiscal. Employers, insurers and governments are absorbing the consequences of a preventable public health crisis.
🚨$8.3B in avoidable ER visits
4.3 million unnecessary mental health emergency room visits each year — driven by social isolation and a lack of community support.
Source: Premier Inc., 2019
💸$154B lost annually to loneliness
Lost productivity, absenteeism and healthcare utilization driven by loneliness cost US employers $154 billion every year.
Source: Cigna, 2025
🏥2× the healthcare spending
Lonely individuals use healthcare at nearly twice the rate of socially connected people — driving disproportionate costs for payers and health systems.
Source: AARP, 2022
$9 🌱
Return per $1 invested in wellbeing value — study of 19,627 patients
Source: UCL / NASP, Nature Health, 2026
72% 📉
Reduction in ER visits for mental health concerns in social prescribing programs
Source: Art Pharmacy, 2023
31+ 🌍
Countries implementing social prescribing — US, UK, Canada, Australia, Japan, Singapore, Germany, Netherlands, Ireland and growing
Source: NASP, 2nd ed. 2025 · Lancet, 2025
🌬️ Policy tailwind
CMS and major insurers — including Aetna, BCBS and UHC — now incentivize interventions targeting social determinants of health. Clinical assessment, referral, and coordination may be reimbursable even though the community activities themselves remain non-clinical.
Policy is active in the UK, Canada, Australia, Japan, Singapore, the Netherlands and Spain, and across US states including MA, GA, CA, NY, FL and ND.