Health Care Quality Digest

Walgreens to accept Medicare Advantage OTC benefits online

Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Walgreens will now accept a slew of Medicare Advantage supplemental benefits online, including the option for home delivery, the company announced this week. Walgreens will now accept a slew of Medicare Advantage supplemental benefits online, including the option for home delivery, the company announced this week.

Medicare

CMS finalizes network adequacy standards, expands dental benefits for ACA exchange

Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 2, 2024

States now can add routine adult dental services as an essential health benefit, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced in its 2025 Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters fina | In its annual Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters final rule, CMS prioritized dental and prescription drug benefits, network adequacy standardization (..)

Medicaid

Medicaid Medicare

Pick-and-choose employee benefits platform Beanstalk Benefits launches with $7.5M

Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 4, 2024

Pick-and-choose employee benefits platform Beanstalk Benefits launches with $7.5M agliadkovskaya Thu, 04/04/2024 - 15:24

Medefy Health lands $10M series A to help employees navigate complex health benefits

Fierce Healthcare

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Navigating healthcare benefits can be a frustrating and confusing experience for most health plan members and employees. Medefy Health developed a mobile-first healthcare benefits navigation platform that offers real-time guidance from actual people, not AI-based chatbots.

Healthcare

A Guide to Virtual Care Technology: 5 Steps to Creating Your Continuum of Care

This guide addresses the increased demand for and benefits of expanding your virtual care options to help retain patients, cut down on hospital readmissions, and expand revenue opportunities. 5 steps to create your complete care continuum. 5 ways a virtual care platform improves ROI.

Hospitals

5 ways to offer modern health benefits

Health Care Dive

APRIL 17, 2023

Benefits can be excellent incentives and tools for acquisition and retention — when they’re understood. Learn more about how to build better health benefits.

Mercer survey: Employer benefits costs set to rise 5.4% next year

Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Employers' health benefits costs are set to rise 5.4% next year, but this spike isn't as high as may have been feared given inflationary pressures in the broader economy, according to

JPM24: Amazon rolls out service to connect customers with digital health benefits, taps Omada Health as launch partner

Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 6, 2024

SAN FRANCISCO—Amazon plans to collaborate with digital health companies to connect customers with virtual care benefits for managing conditions like diabetes and hypertension. Amazon plans to collaborate with digital health companies to connect customers with virtual care benefits for managing conditions like diabetes and hypertension.

FTC adds a third GPO to its investigation into pharmacy benefit managers

Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 9, 2023

The Federal Trade Commission is building out its deep dive into the pharmacy benefit management industry yet again. | The Federal Trade Commission is building out its deep dive into the pharmacy benefit management industry yet again.

Top 12 Telehealth KPIs Every Health Tech Leader Should Know

Speaker: Matt McBride, CEO and Co-Founder of Mend

As a result, stakeholders, patients, providers, and executives all benefit. In this webinar Matt will discuss: Patient engagement, stakeholder benefits, and industry trends. Accessible patient engagement technology can help you improve your relationships with your patients while also improving your KPIs.

Uber adds Optum-enabled benefits cards to health platform

Health Care Dive

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The new deal has made Uber a “patient entry point” into the health benefits system, according to Uber Health global lead Caitlin Donovan.

Medicare Advantage report shows enrollees capitalize on supplemental benefits

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 (..)

Medicare

Employers seek guidance on mental health benefits: survey

Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 26, 2023

Employers give themselves poor marks in terms of providing mental health services to their employees but high scores for supporting initiatives to improve diversity, equity and inclusion among thei | Employers recognize the importance of mental health benefits but feel that they might be falling short in providing them, according to a new survey.

Benefits administrator Enthea makes ketamine-assisted therapy available nationwide

Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Enthea, an administrator of benefits focused on medication-assisted therapies, has made ketamine-assisted therapy available nationwide as an employee benefit. Employers interested in the benefit can add it as an ancillary benefit, similar to dental and vision offerings.

Kroger’s new benefits program expands access to affordable food

Health Care Dive

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The tie-up with a healthcare technology company lets Medicare Advantage, Medicaid and other employer benefits program recipients use services at the grocer’s pharmacies as well as buy eligible food and over-the-counter items.

Medicaid

Medicaid Medicare Healthcare

Alignment Health CEO offers look at its medical benefits ratio strategy

Fierce Healthcare

AUGUST 7, 2023

Medicare Advantage plan Alignment Healthcare is targeting significant improvements to its medical benefits ratio heading into 2024, and the company's top brass offered investors a look at its strat | Medicare Advantage plan Alignment Healthcare is targeting significant improvements to its medical benefits ratio heading into 2024.

Medicare

Medicare Healthcare

Patients benefit from post-acute care

Healthcare It News

APRIL 24, 2024

New data shows how post-acute facilities understand patients' needs and can provide services that both improve outcomes and meet CMS' value-based care standards. Heidi Wold, chief population health officer at Longevity Health Plan, explains.

Population Health

FTC expands probe into pharmacy benefit managers to GPOs

Fierce Healthcare

MAY 17, 2023

FTC expands probe into pharmacy benefit managers to GPOs pminemyer Wed, 05/17/2023 - 16:36

Medicare patients could benefit from expanded dental coverage but lawmakers clash over adding benefits

Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Medicare patients could benefit from expanded dental coverage but lawmakers clash over adding benefits. agliadkovskaya. Tue, 09/14/2021 - 17:33.

Medicare

Blue Shield of California drops CVS Caremark in pharmacy benefit overhaul

Health Care Dive

AUGUST 17, 2023

BSCA has kicked CVS Caremark, the largest pharmacy benefit manager in the country, to the curb and is electing to carve out various pharmacy functions with companies like Amazon instead.

Carrot Fertility expands benefits with hormone replacement therapy coverage

Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 28, 2023

Carrot Fertility expands benefits with hormone replacement therapy coverage agliadkovskaya Tue, 03/28/2023 - 14:43

How behavioral healthcare can benefit from patient portals

Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Studies show patients want user-friendly, personalized patient portals with easy-to-use communication features, which benefits both patients and clinicians. What should behavioral health practices know before implementing a patient portal?

Healthcare

Healthcare Primary Care Patient Experience Integration

Point32Health: What Inclusive Health Benefits Really Mean

Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Point32Health, a leading New England health services company, is seeking answers on what employees need from their health benefits. . | Addressing health inequities starts with an inclusive health plan.

Women get less value out of their benefits than men do: Deloitte study

Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Women face greater medical costs than men and, as such, are getting significantly less value out of their benefits, according to a new analysis from Deloitte. Women face greater medical costs than men and, as such, are getting significantly less value out of their benefits, according to a new analysis from Deloitte.

How RPM can benefit from radar technology

Healthcare It News

MARCH 6, 2024

Radar offers new opportunities to track patients in the home without using wearables, says Sumit Nagpal, CEO of Cherish Health – who recalls some sage advice he received from Steve Jobs when pitching the idea years ago.

Home care industry touts bipartisan bill to expand Medicare in-home benefits, reimbursement

Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 24, 2023

Home care industry touts bipartisan bill to expand Medicare in-home benefits, reimbursement dmuoio Mon, 04/24/2023 - 14:08

Home Care

Home Care Medicare

Seniors believe Medicare needs overhaul but still feel entitled to current benefits

Fierce Healthcare

AUGUST 17, 2023

A recent survey from eHealth, an independent Medicare insurance adviser, released new data that shows 84% of respondents believe Medicare needs reform, but just 12% think changes should impact thei | A new survey shows that while seniors acknowledge Medicare reform is critical to the program's future, they expect to receive benefits at the cost (..)

Medicare

Hispanic-focused health benefits company VITAL launches

Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 4, 2023

VITAL, a new health benefits company that will offer low deductible plans, will begin accepting applications in November to jumpstart efforts in providing | VITAL will offer no deductibles and low or no co-pays for most of its plans, designed to reach low-income, uninsured Hispanic patients.

MultiPlan shells out $160M for analytics AI company Benefits Science

Fierce Healthcare

MAY 11, 2023

MultiPlan shells out $160M for analytics AI company Benefits Science aburky Thu, 05/11/2023 - 19:26

Employers should carefully weigh benefits of high-deductible health plans: study

Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 20, 2023

Employers should carefully weigh benefits of high-deductible health plans: study fdiamond Fri, 01/20/2023 - 07:19

'Sobering' study finds nearly no benefits from medical debt relief efforts

Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 8, 2024

A nonprofit organization’s work buying out and forgiving billions of dollars of medical debt may not be helping patients as much as it or its benefactors had hoped, economists say. |

Spring forward: Mental health benefits company nabs $71M, propels to $2.5B valuation

Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 14, 2023

Spring forward: Mental health benefits company nabs $71M, propels to $2.5B valuation hlandi Fri, 04/14/2023 - 15:01

Blue Shield of California, Salesforce team to ease benefits administration

Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

A recent partnership between Blue Shield of California and Salesforce has helped the health plan reduce processing time for benefits administration from 24 hours to five minutes. | The nonprofit health plan said creating a clinical care management system using Salesforce tools has helped them provide holistic care to its members.

Employers face soaring demand for obesity care benefits. Virtual care players are jumping in with a slew of offerings

Fierce Healthcare

MAY 25, 2023

Employers face soaring demand for obesity care benefits. Virtual care players are jumping in with a slew of offerings hlandi Thu, 05/25/2023 - 12:01

Employers estimate health benefits costs will rise 5.4% next year: Mercer

Fierce Healthcare

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Employers estimate health benefits costs will rise 5.4% next year: Mercer. Thu, 12/08/2022 - 15:20.

How Pharmacy Benefits Can Benefit More People

Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 3, 2023

How Pharmacy Benefits Can Benefit More People. Tue, 01/03/2023 - 14:46.

New Blues network spinout Lucet aims to simplify mental health benefits for payers

Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 20, 2023

New Blues network spinout Lucet aims to simplify mental health benefits for payers pminemyer Fri, 01/20/2023 - 15:28

Are fertility benefits becoming the latest work perk?

Health Care Dive

MAY 1, 2023

In today’s job market, health and retirement benefits are vital tools for competing for employees. Fertility benefits. The latest tool?

Solera Health launches integrated platform for one-stop employer benefit management

Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Solera Health, a benefits network that connects patients, payers and physicians with a curated network of programs, has launched a new one-stop condition management platform. |

Integration

The benefits of Apple Vision Pro for mental health

Healthcare It News

APRIL 8, 2024

Medical XR use in psychotherapy and its validity in mental healthcare offerings discussed by Dr. Kim Bullock, a psychiatrist, neuropsychiatrist and founder of the Virtual Reality and Immersive Technology Clinic at Stanford University.

Healthcare

Study: Cuts to Medicare Advantage payments may have modest impact on seniors' benefits

Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 5, 2023

Study: Cuts to Medicare Advantage payments may have modest impact on seniors' benefits rking Wed, 04/05/2023 - 16:35

Medicare

Establishing Effective Payer Benefits Strategies for Health Equity

HIT Consultant

APRIL 9, 2024

To address the benefit needs of underrepresented population groups, payers can develop “more equitable approaches to healthcare benefits design that recognize and meaningfully address access and affordability concerns,” according to a 2022 article in the American Journal of Health Promotion.

Population Health

Population Health Healthcare Analytics Health Data Primary Care

How the Part D out-of-pocket cap could benefit people switching from commercial insurance

Fierce Healthcare

MAY 25, 2023

How the Part D out-of-pocket cap could benefit people switching from commercial insurance fdiamond Thu, 05/25/2023 - 16:44

Milliman: Home benefits surge in popularity among Medicare Advantage plans

Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Milliman: Home benefits surge in popularity among Medicare Advantage plans. Thu, 11/17/2022 - 15:17.

Medicare

Walgreens to accept Medicare Advantage OTC benefits online

CMS finalizes network adequacy standards, expands dental benefits for ACA exchange

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Pick-and-choose employee benefits platform Beanstalk Benefits launches with $7.5M

Medefy Health lands $10M series A to help employees navigate complex health benefits

A Guide to Virtual Care Technology: 5 Steps to Creating Your Continuum of Care

5 ways to offer modern health benefits

Mercer survey: Employer benefits costs set to rise 5.4% next year

JPM24: Amazon rolls out service to connect customers with digital health benefits, taps Omada Health as launch partner

FTC adds a third GPO to its investigation into pharmacy benefit managers

Top 12 Telehealth KPIs Every Health Tech Leader Should Know

Uber adds Optum-enabled benefits cards to health platform

Medicare Advantage report shows enrollees capitalize on supplemental benefits

Employers seek guidance on mental health benefits: survey

Benefits administrator Enthea makes ketamine-assisted therapy available nationwide

Kroger’s new benefits program expands access to affordable food

Alignment Health CEO offers look at its medical benefits ratio strategy

Patients benefit from post-acute care

FTC expands probe into pharmacy benefit managers to GPOs

Medicare patients could benefit from expanded dental coverage but lawmakers clash over adding benefits

Blue Shield of California drops CVS Caremark in pharmacy benefit overhaul

Carrot Fertility expands benefits with hormone replacement therapy coverage

How behavioral healthcare can benefit from patient portals

Point32Health: What Inclusive Health Benefits Really Mean

Women get less value out of their benefits than men do: Deloitte study

How RPM can benefit from radar technology

Home care industry touts bipartisan bill to expand Medicare in-home benefits, reimbursement

Seniors believe Medicare needs overhaul but still feel entitled to current benefits

Hispanic-focused health benefits company VITAL launches

MultiPlan shells out $160M for analytics AI company Benefits Science

Employers should carefully weigh benefits of high-deductible health plans: study

'Sobering' study finds nearly no benefits from medical debt relief efforts

Spring forward: Mental health benefits company nabs $71M, propels to $2.5B valuation

Blue Shield of California, Salesforce team to ease benefits administration

Employers face soaring demand for obesity care benefits. Virtual care players are jumping in with a slew of offerings

Employers estimate health benefits costs will rise 5.4% next year: Mercer

How Pharmacy Benefits Can Benefit More People

New Blues network spinout Lucet aims to simplify mental health benefits for payers

Are fertility benefits becoming the latest work perk?

Solera Health launches integrated platform for one-stop employer benefit management

The benefits of Apple Vision Pro for mental health

Study: Cuts to Medicare Advantage payments may have modest impact on seniors' benefits

Establishing Effective Payer Benefits Strategies for Health Equity

How the Part D out-of-pocket cap could benefit people switching from commercial insurance

Milliman: Home benefits surge in popularity among Medicare Advantage plans

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