About Legion Health � Our Mission to Make Psychiatric Care Accessible

Founding Story

It started with an 11-month wait in central Texas

Legion Health's CEO Yash Patel watched his younger brother struggle through six years of college and early work without understanding why � until a diagnosis at 24 revealed adult ADHD. The diagnosis itself took 11 months because no psychiatrist within 40 miles of the family's home in central Texas had a new-patient opening. When his brother finally found a telehealth option, the platform did not accept his insurance.

That experience made one thing clear: the system was not broken for lack of willing patients or willing psychiatrists. The infrastructure was broken. Insurance credentialing was too slow and expensive for individual telehealth psychiatrists to set up on their own. Scheduling systems were built for in-person clinics. State licensing fragmentation meant that a psychiatrist in Austin could not see a patient who had moved to Nashville without a new license. Both sides were being penalized by the same structural failures.

Yash partnered with Dr. Renata Figueroa � a board-certified psychiatrist who had previously built the telepsychiatry program at a major Texas academic health system � to build a platform that absorbed the credentialing and insurance contracting burden on the company side. The first eight patients enrolled in a closed beta in Austin in early 2022. Legion Health has since expanded into a multi-state telehealth psychiatry platform operating across the US.

Legion Health team in bright co-working office, candid and focused on mission

Our Mission

Make psychiatric care as easy to access as a primary care appointment

For everyone, everywhere � covered by insurance, not locked behind cash payments or endless waitlists.

In primary care, a patient with a chronic condition can typically see their provider within days. They pay a co-pay, get a care plan, and come back for follow-ups on a regular schedule. For the same patient with ADHD or depression, that same system does not exist. A 25-week average wait. A $400 out-of-pocket session if insurance doesn't cover it. A restart from scratch if they move or change jobs.

Legion Health's mission is to change that equation � not by reinventing psychiatry, but by building the operational infrastructure that makes insurance-covered telehealth psychiatry viable at scale. Licensed providers. Credentialed networks. Billing handled. Care plans that follow the patient across state lines and insurance changes.

Where We Are

Seed stage, national scope

Legion Health is a seed-stage company currently accepting patients across the continental US. We have built the core infrastructure � provider matching, insurance credentialing, the patient portal, and condition-specific care pathways for ADHD, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, and PTSD. Our focus in this phase is proving that insurance-covered telehealth psychiatry can be delivered reliably at scale, with the same clinical standards patients would expect from an in-person practice. We are not yet in every market and not yet treating every condition � but we are building deliberately, adding states and providers as our operational capacity and credentialing timelines allow, with quality over volume as the governing principle.

What We Stand For

The principles that shape every decision we make

Access First

Insurance-covered care, not cash-only telehealth. We built our business model around making coverage work, not around assuming patients can pay out of pocket. If the insurance infrastructure isn't in place for a new state or condition, we do not launch there until it is.

Longitudinal Relationships

We assign patients a primary prescriber and keep them together for follow-ups. Psychiatric care requires knowing a patient's history � their medication responses, their life context, their treatment goals. That requires continuity, not a marketplace that reassigns providers at every visit.

Clinical Rigor

Telehealth convenience should not mean lower clinical standards. Our providers use validated assessment tools, follow condition-specific care pathways, and document care plans that would meet in-person practice standards. We refer out patients whose conditions require in-person evaluation or inpatient stabilization rather than overextending our scope.

Transparent Prescribing

Evidence-based, never incentivized. Our providers prescribe based on clinical need and patient response � not on preferred drug lists or payer incentives. Controlled substance prescriptions follow DEA Schedule II and III protocols and state-level restrictions. Patients and payers get consistent, evidence-based prescribing decisions.

Patient Privacy

Health information is among the most sensitive data a person can share. We treat it accordingly � HIPAA-compliant infrastructure, HIPAA-covered video visits via Zoom for Healthcare, encrypted patient portal messaging, and a strict no-data-sale policy. Privacy is not a compliance checkbox; it is a foundation of the clinical relationship.

Honesty About Scope

We do not treat every condition or serve every patient. Legion Health is not the right fit for patients in acute psychiatric crisis, patients with primary substance use disorder as the presenting condition, patients under 18, or conditions requiring in-person physical examination. We say so clearly and refer those patients to appropriate resources.

Built to close the gap in psychiatric access