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WellBe Senior Medical CEO On Demonstrating Value To Payers In The Home

Home Health Care

Kang: 40 years ago I was a geriatrician up in Boston, and actually did home visits before anyone ever knew what a home visit was. For about 10 years, I was running a group practice, doing that, caring for people in nursing homes, in the home etc. I think that was a big change for home health agencies.

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Contessa Health CEO: Managed Care Strategy Will Separate the ‘Haves and the Have Nots’

Home Health Care

In addition to the hospital-at-home waiver, Messina also addressed the growing demand for home-based palliative care and models that bring skilled-nursing-facility (SNF) care into the home. We all know that there are a lot of problems in health care related to the fragmentation of home care services.

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WelbeHealth’s Michael Le On The Future Of Innovative At-Home Care Models

Home Health Care

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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A closer look at the tech needed for new care-at-home and aging-in-place models

Healthcare It News

At Medicity, we were serving 1,300 hospitals, facilitating lots of data exchange across hospitals, primary care and labs, but nothing we were doing was ever going to touch the home and community. In a hospital, you hit the "nurse call button" if you're not feeling well or something isn't right.

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Recognizing the Role of Caregiver with Melissa Fisher | E. 79

Vie Healthcare

I’ve become a bit of a cynic because I see my father in a nursing home, and my mom is paying $12,000 a month for his care, and the person in the bed next to him is on Medicaid and paying nothing. The manner in which I have to communicate with my mom’s primary care provider is woefully behind.