Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Geisinger plans to open more clinics for primary care, senior care, and convenient/retail care. Of particular note is the organization’s “promise of health assurance – care that is more proactive, accessible, and affordable to people everywhere.” Retail health-meets-Medicare.

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JANUARY 14, 2025

Check out our community’s Value-Based Care , Social Determinants of Health , and Behavioral Health predictions: Luke Hansen, MD, MHS, Chief Medical Officer at Arcadia In 2025 and beyond, specialists will play a larger role in advancing value-based care (VBC).

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DECEMBER 30, 2024

healthcare affordability crisis can be solved by 2030 if we can improve access to primary care. Primary care has been proven to play a key role in helping drive down healthcare costs and is the single biggest lever we have to address the affordability crisis. Government-funded capitation has to ensure care is adequate.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 23, 2020

As patients returned to in-person, brick-and-mortar health care settings after the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic, they re-enter the health care system with heightened consumer expectations, according to the Beryl Institute – Ipsos Px Pulse report, Consumer Perspectives on Patient Experience in the U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 10, 2022

Among people 50 and over, the doctor’s visit for routine care is the top reason for using virtual care, among 2 in 3 older people. That’s an important behavior change to take into future planning for primary care services targeted to older peoples’ chronic care management and remote health monitoring.

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OCTOBER 29, 2024

This new capital will help extend the company’s market leadership and momentum, by adding partnerships with more provider groups, growing payer coverage, servicing new employer partners, and expanding into Medicare populations beginning in 2025.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

For example, only health care providers that have an existing relationship with a Medicare patient would be eligible per the requirements in the legislation. Check out this last public health poster about Medicare and COVID-19. That’s Medicare, Australia-style, adopting telehealth in this coronavirus era.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 22, 2020

With COVID-19 transmission risks remaining high, many medical practices have been forced to change their business model from one built on face-to-face appointments to delivering patient care via telehealth visits virtually overnight.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 10, 2022

And it’s crucial for incumbent health care suppliers — hospitals, pharma, devices and supplies, and health plans — to assess, learn, strategize and execute on the potential shift of $265 billion of care services that McKinsey expects to migrate to the home by 2025. The momentum for the Blur is high velocity.

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Health Populi

JULY 10, 2020

The most bullish clinicians about providing telehealth visits as an on-going alternative to in-office visits are behavioral/mental health providers and primary care physicians, 93% and 62% of whom expect to provide more telehealth to patients.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Philips learned that throughout our COVID Year of 2020, health care providers often preferred to keep patients at home, some as part of Medicare payment innovations and others moving hospital care to the home as part of evolving clinical protocols and the growing Internet of Things for health – many of which were unveiled at CES 2021.

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Health Populi

MAY 16, 2019

” We see green shoots of the “social de-construction” of the obstacles in the health care landscape now: Medicare Advantage supports social services for older people enrolled in these plans; Kaiser-Permanente is making a “bold move” to channel social determinants of health in collaboration with Unite US; and, Dr.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Acquisition further advances CVS Health’s care delivery strategy for consumers CVS Health® (NYSE: CVS ) and Oak Street Health (NYSE: OSH ) have entered into a definitive agreement under which CVS Health will acquire Oak Street Health in an all-cash transaction at $39 per share, representing an enterprise value of approximately $10.6

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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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Health Populi

AUGUST 6, 2024

by Medicare Part D, and nearly 10% by Medicaid For Wegovy, 9 in 10 Rx’s were covered by commercial plans, 8% by Medicaid, and only 1% by Medicare Part D, and, Rybelsus prescriptions were covered by commercial payers (58%), 33% by Part D, and just under 9% by Medicaid.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Unique to this study is the patient sample polled: Software Advice surveyed 876 patients in September 2023 to gauge their perspectives on wearable tech and health. “Do personal health trackers belong in the doctor’s office?” ” Software Advice wondered.

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DECEMBER 28, 2020

" "Coupled with seamless EHR integration and clarity on reimbursement methodology, our new telemedicine infrastructure will push Sun River to thoughtfully consider patient experience in the development of a resilient yet flexible model of care." " James Sinkoff, Sun River Health. " MARKETPLACE.

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AUGUST 26, 2022

in primary care, and 14.7% Value-Based Care. When VBC programs were expanded as part of the Affordable Care Act in 2010 and the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) in 2015, there was hope that the existing fee-for-service model would begin to decline. An increase in patient portal usage.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The technique involves finding data from public sources such as Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Medicare launched a payment system for in-home treatment during the pandemic, and now more than 200 hospitals have been approved by Medicare for the service. offering in-home treatment.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 17, 2023

The deal builds on an existing partnership between the organizations dating back to 2020 and accelerates Vytalize’s expansion into Medicare Advantage, commercial plans, and Medicaid, as well as multi-specialty care.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 20, 2025

My career spans over three decades in health information technology, health policy and public health, including roles at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation and in state government. My name is Vatsala Kapur, and I’m the Vice President of External Affairs at Bamboo Health.

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Iris Telehealth

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Integrated care acknowledges that mental health and physical health don’t exist in silos and makes high-quality care a reality for patients across the country. There are also impactful benefits for patients and providers. For patients. The integrated care model also saves providers time and money.

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Iris Telehealth

JULY 3, 2023

Integrated mental health services acknowledge that mental health and physical health don’t exist in silos and make high-quality care a reality for patients across the country. Additionally, it can also increase patient satisfaction in various primary care settings, including rural and urban communities.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Although 90% of health systems face turnover rates of greater than 10% for roles in RCM and patient experience, only 25% of executives are looking at AI or workflow improvements to improve efficiency , an Experian Health survey found. That’s down from 34% last year.

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OCTOBER 8, 2023

PEP Health’s AI-powered Patient Experience Platform releases its first report offering quantitative and qualitative insights on the patient experience. Meanwhile, primary care physicians prescribed these same medications 3.5%

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Health Populi

JULY 29, 2022

Zocdoc launched a data ecosystem enabled through application programming interfaces to streamline care coordination and referrals between primary care providers and specialists, aiming to provide consumers with a better experience and more convenient care access. For the second year in a row, H-E-B received J.D.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Another study published in 2021 analyzed the geographic distribution of neurologists actively billing in Medicare and compared this to the geographic distribution of Medicare beneficiaries with neurologic disease. As a result, this program directly addresses access issues that these patients experience.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 14, 2024

The American Telehealth Association announced its policy priorities for 2024 ; they include making Medicare telehealth flexibilities permanent before the end of the year and removing the in-person requirement for the remote prescribing of controlled substances.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

As the patient is increasingly the payor, some of those savings accrue to her, especially if she uses a health savings account where OTC meds are claimable with a tax advantage. Note the new alliance between Walmart and Anthem to channel OTC meds to Medicare Advantage members).

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MAY 11, 2023

This can help reduce costs and im prove the overall patient experience. For example, if these organizations are incentivized to provide less care to patients in order to save money on insurance costs, this could compromise the quality of care that patients receive.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 12, 2023

Research shows that 38% of consumers want more personalized and inclusive healthcare options, and organizations are beginning to invest in technology and infrastructure that will enhance the patient experience and empower them to make educated care decisions. Health consumers demand better care experiences.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2024

Brad Younggren, President & Chief Medical Officer, Care Innovation at 98point6 Technologies Telehealth and virtual care more broadly hold great promise and will continue to increase in breadth and depth in the healthcare system. Medicaid is the single largest payer for mental health services in the U.S.,

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 19, 2022

Canvas Medical, the EMR that enables clinicians and developers to power the future of care delivery, has raised $24MM in Series B funding led by M13 with participation from Haystack and previous investors Inspired Capital, IA Ventures, Upfront Ventures, and Irongrey. Founded in 2015, Canvas is reimagining the EMR for the future of healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 19, 2023

According to Karl Ulfers, co-founder and vice president of growth at DUOS , governments offer excellent listings of resources with which care managers and clinicians can address housing, food, transportation, and other SDoH. Like many other vendors, Equality Health is used by primary care providers and others to make value-based care work.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Andrew Eye, CEO of the healthcare data science company ClosedLoop , estimates that about 15% of physicians collect SDoH-related data from patients and use it to assess their needs. Data can be spotty, according to Eye, who says for instance that data from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) often lacks racial identifications.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 3, 2023

"In our ambulatory virtual programs, we manage complex chronically ill patients," said Annie Bannister, RN, executive director of vEngagement at Mercy. "For the first time, these patients with complex, chronic illnesses had real-time access to providers ─ something unheard of in their world. '" she continued.

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