HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

What You Should Know: – Easyhealth raises $135M to redesign Medicare with its end-to-end Medicare experience to help 50 million Medicare members find the best plan and support them through their healthcare journey. Redesigning The Medicare Experience. Improved Medicare Plan Performance.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 12, 2020

Adrian Smith, R-Nebraska, and Ann Kuster, D-New Hampshire – would allow Medicare to enter into voluntary, value-based arrangements with medical groups to provide acute care to patients in skilled nursing facilities using a combination of telehealth and on-site staff. The RUSH Act – introduced in companion bills from Sens.

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Fierce Healthcare

JULY 26, 2023

Most Medicare Advantage (MA) enrollees use one or more supplemental benefits, with most health plan members using multiple benefits, according to a newly released report from the Elevance Health Pu | Extra benefits from Medicare Advantage plans are highly utilized by enrollees, which improves health outcomes among at-risk populations, new analysis (..)

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 2, 2022

What You Should Know: – CareMax , a tech-enabled provider of value-based care to seniors announced an agreement to acquire the Medicare value-based care business of Steward Health Care System for a combination of cash and stock. – CareMax will pay $25 million in cash and issue 23.5

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 31, 2022

"The ability to use and build from established standards in real-time and as part of screening practices that help identify specific needs related to insecurity is an important step in enabling more coordinated care and timely assistance or interventions needed to improve health outcomes," according to Argentieri, Meklir and Henry.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The Medicaid and CHIP Access to Prescription Digital Therapeutics Act seeks to expand care options that can help improve health outcomes and quality of life for those facing barriers to healthcare. The Digital Therapeutics Alliance this week encouraged legislators to support its efforts to broaden access to DTx. WHY IT MATTERS.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 24, 2022

health plan. We are proud to expand our partnership with Cigna to improve the overall quality of life, including pain reduction and a return to previous functionality for the Medicare Advantage population,” said Dustin Eggers, EVP and chief commercial officer of RecoveryOne. “We

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Healthcare It News

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.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 25, 2021

According to a press statement from Thompson's office, it would: Eliminate most geographic and originating site restrictions on the use of telehealth in Medicare and establishing the patient’s home as an eligible distant site. This is a common-sense step to make sure our policies keep pace with our technology," he added.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 5, 2024

(NYSE: HUM) and kidney care provider Strive Health announced today a new multi-state, value-based care agreement for kidney care to more Medicare Advantage members. – A dedicated interdisciplinary care team that collaborates with a member’s physician to provide whole-person care.

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Medicare Medicare Health Outcomes 98

Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Medicare Advantage (MA) beneficiaries have better quality of care and health outcomes than traditional fee-for-service counterparts, researchers from Harvard Medical School found.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 18, 2022

How do care management interventions to mitigate SDOH as a risk for undesired health outcomes work? Recently, population health management strategies have begun to incorporate evaluations for patients' social needs connected to SDOH, as well as interventions addressing these needs.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 29, 2024

"She has been a key contributor to the advancement of digital health in the nursing profession and played a pivotal role in the future of the Australian healthcare system as a member of the Strengthening Medicare Taskforce," ADHA CEO Amanda Cattermole said about Booth in a statement.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 7, 2025

Dr. Gupta Bio/Background Dr. Gupta is a trained family practice physician with over a decade of experience in Medicare Advantage leadership. He also has a proven record of improving clinical outcomes for senior populations.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 11, 2025

– The advocacy group is dedicated to promoting policies that integrate virtual care with food and nutritional support to improve health outcomes, prevent disease, and manage chronic conditions. This includes conditions such as obesity, prediabetes, and hypertension.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 1, 2021

She pointed to recent rulemaking in which the OIG recognized the promise that digital health technologies, including telemedicine, have for improving care coordination and health outcomes. Advocates applauded the statement, saying they are ready to work with the agency to ensure telehealth services continue safe care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 16, 2020

House of Representatives on Thursday aims to ensure telehealth is able to continue to build on its potential in the years ahead, by making permanent some policies enacted during the pandemic and protecting Medicare beneficiaries' ability to engage in virtual care. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 2, 2025

The impact of tech-enabled care on older adults Technology-driven healthcare solutions, such as in-home vitals monitoring, enable increased access to care for the Medicare population and support improved health outcomes by supplementing clinical care and helping to address acute and chronic conditions from the comfort of the patients home.

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 9, 2019

Verma also discussed the new AI Health Outcomes Challenge to speed up innovations.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The payer mix of health insurance is typical, with 35% of patients representing government insurance such as Medicare or Medicaid, 60% commercial insurance, and 6% self-pay patients. Virtual-first primary care has been shown to improve health outcomes by increasing access, he reported.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 21, 2019

There are over 60 million enrollees in Medicare in 2019, and fully one-third are in Medicare Advantage plans. Medicare is adding 10,000 new beneficiaries every day in the U.S. Medicare Advantage enrollment is fast-growing, shown in the first chart where over 22 million people were in MA plans in January 2019.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 20, 2025

What You Should Know: – Aledade has announced an expanded collaboration with Humana , designed to bolster the ability of Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) and rural health clinics to succeed in value-based care. Medicare Advantage serves as a private health insurance alternative to traditional Medicare.

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Healthcare Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Proper healthcare staff training and education contributes to better health outcomes, greater confidence and morale among staff, significant cost savings, and more efficient operations. Maintain Regulatory Compliance Non-compliance with just one regulation can put patients’ health and organizational operations at risk.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 31, 2025

The Fundraise Will Enable Soda Health to Broaden its Offering of Data Products and Services, and Expand its Support to New Benefit Categories Soda Health , a health tech company enhancing the use of benefit dollars to improve health outcomes and reduce inequities, today announced a $50M Series B financing.

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 9, 2019

Verma also discussed the new AI Health Outcomes Challenge to speed up innovations.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 20, 2019

American seniors are already comfortable with video call technology, the survey found, revealing 45% have used FaceTime, Skype or Google Hangout, and a quarter are already using a mobile phone health app. THE LARGER TREND.

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HealthIT Answers

JULY 6, 2023

From the CMS Blog - CMS is committed to fostering innovation while ensuring that people with Medicare have faster and more consistent access to emerging technologies that will improve health outcomes. The post Transforming Medicare Coverage appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

. – This partnership expands Blue Cross’s existing suite of virtual care options for diabetes management, which also includes Virta Health, Teladoc, and Omada. Blue Cross has also launched a pilot program with Curant Health to address medication adherence challenges among members with diabetes, hypertension, and high cholesterol.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 23, 2024

What You Should Know: – Vitalic announced the launch of its innovative geriatric behavioral health platform, designed specifically to address the often overlooked mental health needs of older adults. Vitalic aims to change this by offering a comprehensive, team-based approach to geriatric behavioral health.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Expanding those successful screening practices across departments and practices, like family medicine, maternal and infant health, pediatrics and cardiology, etc. Gathering reliable data for research that can explore associations between positive screens and health outcomes, healthcare utilization and cost.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 7, 2025

The company partners with major insurers and Medicare, making its digital platform available to 70 percent of the U.S. To date, Culina Health maintains more than 1,000 referring providers and has served more than 10,000 patients through the Culina Health Method. population. billion annual cost savings at scale.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 25, 2024

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services just released data on its Acute Hospital Care at Home initiative , which thus far has admitted 11,159 patients suffering from respiratory infections, heart failure and severe sepsis. Where is this data going to come from and what must hospital and health system IT executives do here?

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 3, 2024

– The Series B round of funding will fuel Soda Health’s mission to improve health outcomes and reduce inequities by optimizing benefit spending.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

The funding for this coordination of these social determinants of health aims to break down siloed efforts and better align care and social service providers – ideally enabling better health outcomes, reducing costs and protecting vulnerable populations.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 21, 2025

The acquisition brings Humbi AI’s deep actuarial expertise and robust Medicare and Medicaid data, covering over 200 million lives, to Innovaccer’s Healthcare Intelligence Cloud. Improve patient outcomes: Leverage data-driven insights to enhance care delivery and achieve better health outcomes.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 27, 2025

These improvements span internal and customer-facing operations at payers, care delivery organizations, and government entities such as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and public hospitals. According to McKinsey , advancements in AI, GenAI, could transform the healthcare industry by boosting operational efficiencies.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The acquisition combines Humbi AIs expertise in Medicare and Medicaid data, spanning over 200 million lives, with Innovaccers Intelligence Cloud. This integration will enhance Innovaccers ability to help healthcare organizations improve health outcomes and manage risk and performance more effectively.

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