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Hopscotch Primary Care, a tech-enabled rural health company, just secured $53M in Series D funding to expand from Western North Carolina into Tennessee and Georgia. The company tackles rural healthcare gaps with longer appointments, AI-assisted clinical tools, and a 24/7 nurse line. It's served over 15,000 patients since launching in 2021 and claims to cut total cost of care while improving medical loss ratios by over 25 percentage points.
Rural healthcare is in crisis — retiring doctors, closing hospitals, and long travel distances are leaving millions underserved. Hopscotch Primary Care is betting $53 million that a high-tech, high-touch model can change that. The Series D round, led by 8VC and Townhall Ventures, will fuel the company's expansion from its Western North Carolina base into Tennessee and Georgia.
Founded in 2021, Hopscotch operates a dozen clinics focused on complex seniors, offering 20–40 minute appointments (a rarity in primary care), AI-driven clinical decision support, ambient scribes, and telehealth options. A 24/7 nurse line helps divert unnecessary hospitalizations and connects patients to care quickly. The company accepts Medicare, Medicare Advantage, Medicaid, and commercial plans, and helps patients navigate insurance and social services.
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Why it matters: As rural communities face worsening physician shortages and an aging population migrating to the Sun Belt, scalable models like Hopscotch could serve as a blueprint for closing the rural care gap — combining technology with the trusted, long-term patient-physician relationships that rural communities depend on.
