What You Should Know: Pair Team, a virtual and community-based primary care solution connecting Medicaid’s highest-risk patients to high-quality care, today announced its expansion into seven new California markets: Fresno, Merced, Monterey, Los Angeles, Santa Cruz, San Joaquin, and Stanislaus counties.This move enables the company to further improve access to California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal (CalAIM) care benefits by reaching a larger number of patients, providers
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Arcadia Partners with WellSpan Health to Supercharge Value-Based Care Journey
What You Should Know: - Arcadia (arcadia.io), a data platform for healthcare, today announced a partnership with WellSpan Health to improve the Pennsylvania health system's performance in Medicare's Shared Savings Program. - This strategic partnership aims to leverage Arcadia's data analytics platform to connect WellSpan Health's 220 patient care locations and provide actionable insights that support the healthcare network's value-based care journey. Improving WellSpan Health’s
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Health Plans: Tackling Diabetes Disparities for All Americans
During Diabetes Awareness month (November) - and every month - someone is having a limb amputated due to diabetes every three-to-four minutes here in the United States. These patients often come from traditionally underserved populations, including Black and Latinx communities, that disproportionately experience the clinical and economic burdens of diabetes. Getting ahead of rising patient risks can greatly improve quality of life and reduce the incidence of complications from
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Anthem Expands Access to Primary Care in Virginia Through Collaboration with Aledade
What You Should Know: - Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Virginia and Aledade, the nation’s largest network of independent primary care, today announced an expansion of their collaboration to provide more Virginians with access to high-quality primary care. - The expanded strategic partnership will impact more than 80 practices, 15 health centers, and 25 rural health clinics across Virginia and covers Medicare Advantage, commercially insured, or Medicaid members. - Aledade is
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Embracing SDOH Data Monitoring for Transformative Healthcare
Understanding the multifaceted dimensions of patient wellness goes beyond the medical symptoms presented in a clinical setting. In order to maximize positive patient outcomes, healthcare providers must examine and monitor the social factors and life circumstances, or the Social Determinants of Health (SDOH), that significantly influence population health. These determinants – encompassing aspects of life such as access to care and technology, food or housing insecurity, core demographics and
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NextGen’s Value-Based Care Solutions Unlocks $82M in Medicare Savings
What You Should Know: NextGen Healthcare, Inc. a leading provider of innovative, cloud-based healthcare technology solutions, today announced that its clients participating in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) leveraged NextGen® Population Health to achieve a cumulative $82 million in total Medicare savings last year.The MSSP incentivizes hospitals, associations of physicians, and other healthcare facilities to form accountable care organizations (ACOs) that
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Cone Health, Helix Launches 5-Year Population Genomics Testing Initiative
What You Should Know: - Cone Health, a non-profit healthcare network in North Carolina, and Helix, a population genomics company, have partnered to launch a five-year research study that will enroll and track 100,000 healthy people. - The study will use Helix's population genomics platform to provide medical insights for Cone Health patients and help identify people at risk for certain diseases and conditions. Study Enrollment & Benefits Enrollment in the program is optional and
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CareAbout Health Selects Innovaccer to Scale VBC for Expanding Provider Network
What You Should Know: - CareAbout, a healthcare management services company, has selected Innovaccer's data platform and analytics solutions to help its providers achieve their clinical and financial goals. - The partnership between CareAbout and Innovaccer will help CareAbout's providers achieve their clinical and financial goals in a value-based care environment. - Innovaccer's platform will provide CareAbout's providers with actionable insights into quality, performance, and cost
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Alarming Wait Times and Persistent Inequities Obstructing Early Autism Diagnosis, Study Exposes
What You Should Know: Cognoa, a leading child development and behavioral health company, today published a new report, The State of Pediatric Autism Diagnosis in the U.S.: Gridlocks, Inequities and Missed Opportunities Persist, that underscores the longstanding waitlist crisis for children and their families seeking a diagnosis of developmental delays and autism evaluation. The report assesses results from 111 specialty centers across the U.S.On average, children and their families are
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ApolloMed & Wider Circle Partner to Deliver Patient-Centered Care in California
What You Should Know: - Wider Circle and Apollo Medical Holdings, Inc. (ApolloMed) are partnering to provide Enhanced Care Management (ECM) to high-need Medicaid members in California as part of the California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal (CalAIM) initiative. - The collaboration aims to deliver patient-centered care and ECM by combining Wider Circle's community-based engagement model with ApolloMed's clinical care management expertise and technology platform. ApolloMed
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