FierceHealthIT

JULY 15, 2019

The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation strikes again with an innovative program designed to reduce Medicare program expenditures while improving the quality of care, healthcare attorney Kathleen Premo writes.

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Digital Health Wire

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Here’s a quick primer on Walmart’s healthcare strategy, which so-far can be bucketed into three themes: Medicare and MA health plans, primary care, and employer virtual care. The 30 current locations provide primary care, urgent care, labs, imaging, optometry, audiology, and even dentistry.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 13, 2022

More than 2,900 physicians providing care to 175,000 senior patients now leverage UpStream’s unique platform to ensure better patient outcomes and improve their financial performance. “Primary care physicians are an integral part of the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 26, 2023

The industry faces severe provider shortages – exacerbated by a terrible burnout problem. "Once the ER or Convenient Care provider enters an order in the Epic EHR for the virtual provider, the patient’s visit is then scheduled," Kapa said. Access to providers is a challenge across healthcare. This is not news.

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Health Populi

APRIL 18, 2019

This week convened the ATA annual conference where healthcare industry stakeholders met up to deal with the current telehealth environment and imagine what the future prospects would/could be. Telemedicine used to be about solving access to no care,” Kaveh introduced the conversation. healthcare system.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 10, 2022

trillion healthcare industry. The through-line for all of us who work in the broader health care ecosystem is that care is shifting “everywhere,” from home to work to wherever we “are” or where we want that care to be delivered. To CVS, the Signify purchase isn’t a wager on home health.

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Digital Health Wire

AUGUST 28, 2023

CMS just released the Medicare Shared Savings Program results for 2022, and the report managed to drum up some serious debate on the effectiveness of MSSP despite last year’s record performance. MSSP saved Medicare $1.8B 140 per high-revenue ACO), underscoring the importance of primary care to the overall program.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 6, 2023

$140 million in funding raised since November 2020 Wellvana Health announced today that it has closed an $84 million capital raise to drive innovation in value-based care enablement for independent primary care physicians, specialists, and health systems.

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Digital Health Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The glaring white space in that portfolio happens to be one of the biggest growth engines for insurers, the Medicare segment. While Cigna’s been trying to build momentum in Medicare Advantage since picking up HealthSpring in 2011, just this month it announced that it’s “ evaluating options ” to offload its underperforming MA unit.

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Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2024

Presidential elections to that point, and that the last retiring Baby Boomer enrolls in Medicare that year. Let’s take a walk with “Quincy” through each of the four worlds to see how their health care experience might play out across the key driving forces. In 2030, every Boomer will have been eligible for Medicare.

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Henry Kotula

APRIL 13, 2023

Still Time For a Healthcare Industry Reinvention (Part 2) Editor’s Note: This is Part 2 of a multi-part series on healthcare revolution. Recognizing and Addressing the Challenge Patients’ healthy life expectancy should be the focus of the healthcare industry, communities, employers and governments. The same with telemedicine.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Beyond the sheer scale of patient volumes reached during the pandemic, virtual care was adopted by physicians across specialties well beyond primary care. Hy-Vee also introduced a Medicare Aisle into its grocery stores in August 2021. In 2020, 79% of U.S.

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Health Populi

JULY 26, 2022

Iora Health has focused on the Medicare-enrolled population, distinct from ONEM’s target patient market of younger, employed consumers. As we all grapple with what this means at this preliminary stage and then what could evolve over time, I focus on the dual aspect of the opportunity: is this about primary care or is this about data?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 10, 2023

The Connecticut Children's Care Network, with 37 independent pediatric practices and more than 200 pediatric primary care providers in Connecticut and Massachusetts, has a mission to improve the quality of care and health outcomes for infants, children and adolescents. ON THE RECORD.

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Health Populi

JULY 10, 2023

. “On-demand virtual care services, like 24/7 video chat and easy in-app messaging, are included in the membership at no extra cost. For other services, such as appointments and labs, One Medical accepts health plans from most insurance carriers as well as Medicare,” the pre-reveal explained, a snippet of that site shown here.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

MARCH 30, 2023

The healthcare industry is facing numerous challenges that are impacting healthcare providers, patients, and healthcare systems. With the rise of new technologies and the significant impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the industry is rapidly evolving, requiring healthcare organizations and professionals to navigate an ever-changing landscape.

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Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2022

.” I was particularly keen to dig into this study based on its sponsoring organization: JLL is a real estate services company serving over a dozen vertical markets — including health care, life sciences, senior housing, and retail, among other industry sectors. ” she added. This week, the U.S.

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Henry Kotula

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Shore Up Primary Care Compared to the United States, the world’s most-effective and highest-performing healthcare systems deliver better quality of care at significantly lower costs. One important difference between us and them: primary care. This will help attract the best medical students to the specialty.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

In fact, today, we’re seeing telehealth reimagine care in a more profound and meaningful way than we’ve seen historically. Q2 – – Some industry observers have called this, “telehealth’s big moment.” Check out this last public health poster about Medicare and COVID-19. In other words, the elusive “tipping point” is finally here.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The past few years have birthed a growing roster of organizations serving up new models for primary care: the list includes CVS/health, Walgreens coupled with VillageMD, Walmart and its evolving approach to community-based primary care, and many new models for primary care targeting specific populations (from working age employed people to older folks (..)

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

MAY 11, 2023

This concept is a relatively new development in the healthcare industry, and it has the potential to significantly impact the way that healthcare is delivered and paid for. One of the primary benefits they can offer more integrated and coordinated care to patients.

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Henry Kotula

MAY 16, 2021

MeMD, founded in 2010, provides primary care and mental health services to five million patients nationally. That service, Amazon Care, is targeted at the employer market, and right on cue, Amazon announced its first customer sale last week—to Precor, a fitness equipment company. . Incumbents beware.

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care innovations

MAY 16, 2018

Congress and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have generated hope among health plans, insurers, providers and patients that Medicare telehealth reimbursement is set to expand significantly in the year ahead. The Rural Health Strategy & Medicare Telehealth Reimbursement.

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Redox

JUNE 30, 2023

Get the details DTx stagnation triggers industry losses As lawmakers scramble to regulate, categorize, and medically code digital therapeutics, the business viability of DTx hangs in the balance.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 18, 2023

Value-based care makes care more affordable for patients while rewarding clinicians for improved care, and the industry recognizes the value. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has expanded Medicare Advantage through 2023 to make the shift, and digital health tools are crucial for support.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Sarah Carroll, Senior Vice President, Center for Care Transformation at AVIA Health Medicaid and Medicare have become one of the biggest quiet crises in health systems today. This is concerning because it could extend a chilling impact across the industry, potentially slowing down investment and future innovations.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

On July 21, 2022, Amazon entered a merger agreement with One Medical, offering to buy a significant share in the primary care market. In addition, One Medical’s Iora Health expands the healthcare offering to include a growing market of Medicare patients 65 and over. Overview of Amazon Care. Amazon & One Medical.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 19, 2022

Additionally, with this certification, Canvas customers are now eligible for value-based payment models in Medicare and Medicaid programs, as well as many commercial value-based programs. . The healthcare industry is at an inflection point: software developers are now de facto members of the care team at leading care delivery companies.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Caravan Health President and CEO Tim Gronniger previously was chief of staff and director of delivery system reform at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Caravan Health is a privately held company formed to create sustainable methodologies for health systems to excel in value-based care. However, CMS can't do it alone.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Doximity’s second report on telemedicine explores both physicians’ and patients’ views on virtual care, finding most doctors and health consumers on the same page of virtual care adoption. For the physicians’ profile, Doximity examined 180,000 doctors’ who billed Medicare for telemedicine claims between January 2020 and June 2021.

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Health Populi

MAY 16, 2019

This very question is addressed in this week’s New England Journal of Medicine in an essay, Toward Facilitated Self-Service in Health Care. . In each of these scenarios, financial services, hospitality, and petroleum operators have bent their industry cost-curves while engaging consumers in self-service.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 23, 2020

adults who said that COVID-19 negatively changed their perspective on, especially, 51% of people who pointed to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and. The red bars indicate the percent of U.S. 46% of Americans who cited the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).

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Health Populi

JUNE 3, 2020

McKinsey’s report models outpatient and office visits that can be virtually enabled for patients covered by both commercial and public sector health plans (Medicare and Medicaid). Most providers also reported they were more comfortable using telehealth post-COVID. 24% of all office visits and outpatient encounters, plus.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

A new report from CoverMyMeds details the current state of medication access weaving together key health care industry and consumer data. There’s another good that’s essential to people who are patients: prescription drugs. The reality even before the coronavirus crisis emerged in early 2020 was that U.S.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

In fact, in April, 43% of primary care visits for Medicare patients were through telehealth. Through July, CMS noted that 10 million Medicare beneficiaries used telehealth visits. The total of 34.5 million services including children represented a 2,632% increase over the prior period.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Medicare and a supplemental plan) to receive care from multiple providers (e.g., primary care physician, psychotherapist, physical therapist, pharmacist) who work in multiple healthcare systems. This fact sheet aims to summarize the key points of the proposed rule and its potential impact on the healthcare industry.

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Digital Health Global

DECEMBER 12, 2023

since 1965 and is far worse than other industrialized nations. While all ages and races saw an increase in maternal mortality in 2021, many inequities still exist due to a variety of factors, including but not limited to access to quality care, socioeconomic status, race and education level. worsened by 40 percent from 2020 to 2021.

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