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Florida Blue Medicare, Emcara Health Launch Home-Based Primary Care Program

Home Health Care

Florida Blue Medicare — the state’s Blue Cross and Blue Shield Medicare plan — is collaborating with Emcara Health to offer eligible members access to home-based primary care. The collaboration reflects how payers are increasingly turning to in-home care organizations of all shapes and sizes.

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Humana’s ‘Impact Report’ Highlights Home-Based Care Growth, Advocacy Goals

Home Health Care

“Expanding access to healthcare: Humana integrated CenterWell home health, pharmacy and primary care services throughout 2021 and 2022, which has allowed the company to lower care costs and increase the value of care,” the company wrote in its report. For Humana, that roughly means 1.3 million beneficiaries. “For

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Why Becoming ACO Improves Your Quality Payment Reporting?

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ACO or Accountable Care Organization is a group of doctors, hospitals, medical centers, and other healthcare providers. This unit works together to care for and look after a patient’s health. Their main goal is to improve the quality of care for patients. Primary care doctors and specialists.

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Why Becoming ACO Improves Your Quality Payment Reporting?

p3care

ACO or Accountable Care Organization is a group of doctors, hospitals, medical centers, and other healthcare providers. This unit works together to care for and look after a patient’s health. Their main goal is to improve the quality of care for patients. Primary care doctors and specialists.

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Telehealth Use Among Older Americans: Growing Interest, Remaining Concerns

Health Populi

In the Fear of Going Out Era spawned by the COVID-19 pandemic, many patients were loath to go to the doctor’s office for medical care, and even less keen on entering a hospital clinic’s doors. Quality of care not as good as in-person (among 67% of older people). 24% had privacy concerns.

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Magnolia Regional used price transparency IT to get more CHF patients to fill their prescriptions

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The hospitalists, care navigators and primary care providers worked together to roll out a three-step approach to better understand the impact of having drug costs available to physicians and patients at the point of care. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Three in Five People 50+ in the US Will Likely Use Telehealth In the Future – An Update from AARP

Health Populi

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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