Healthcare It News

AUGUST 29, 2022

Employees using Galileo avoid more expensive visits to in-person specialty, urgent or ER care 80% of the time. More than 85% of patients report improved health after receiving care from Galileo. From there, we established partnerships with both regional and national health plans to offer virtual-first care to their members.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 20, 2023

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership In the broader at-home care space, Dr. Michael Le is considered an innovator. His impressive resume — which also includes time at Optum Home & Community Care and CareMore Health Plan — places him at the forefront of the movement bringing more care to the home and the community.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The Medicare stars program actually outlines a number of those, and we want to hold ourselves to the same level of accountability in the home. Can you give us a general update first on how hospital at home is going at Kaiser – what the census looks like and any other details? Are they involved at all?

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Hospitals Urgent Care Prevention Accountability 112

Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

One of the things that’s very interesting is that it’s really, really hard to look at 2022 and compare it to 2021, which was a breakout year in mergers and acquisitions across the board, forget just health care services. That was for all industries including the aggregate of Medicare, Medicaid, and private duty transactions.

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Health Dialog

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

In fact, according to our internal data, nearly 12% of patients who call our nurse line with a pre-intent of visiting an urgent care facility were appropriately redirected to visit an emergency room instead. Data has been normalized across Medicare, Medicaid, and Commercial populations. Who typically calls a nurse line and why?

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Hannah Patterson: I’m the vice president of our workforce management solutions at Netsmart, a Healthcare IT vendor that provides services and solutions technologies for home care, post-acute providers and our human services clients. It has great reporting so we can see how many urgent and non-urgent care requests have come in.

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Nursing Medicaid Accountability Home Care 90

NASHP

MARCH 22, 2024

North Carolina’s comprehensive behavioral health approach included efforts to increase uptake of CoCM through additional training and practice supports and Medicaid rate increases to 120% of Medicare rates for behavioral health providers. An action plan dashboard tracks targets. CMS’s Birth to 5: Watch Me Thrive!

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