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

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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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SCAN Group Launches Home-Based Primary Care Arm ‘Welcome Health’

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SCAN Group has entered into the in-home senior primary care space with the launch of Welcome Health. Dr. Scott Weingarten will serve as CEO of the independent primary care medical group moving forward. Welcome Health will care for predominantly Medicare Advantage patients,” Weingarten told Home Health Care News.

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Inside 2 Emerging Risk-Based Home Care Models

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In order to become less dependent on fee-for-service business, home health providers have begun to take on more risk. That has led to an emergence of risk-based home care models, many of which have given providers room to partake in upside and downside risk. These areas are chronic care management and preventative care.

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CMMI’s Proposed TEAM Model Offers Another Risk-Based Opportunity For Home Health Providers

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Last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Innovation Center announced a new proposed model that will undoubtedly affect home health providers, and also allow them the opportunity to get more involved in value-based care initiatives. TEAM would be yet another model furthering that goal, if enacted.

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Devoted Health Raises $175M, Plans To Expand Home-Based Care Offerings

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Devoted Health, a next-generation Medicare Advantage plan and tech-enabled startup , made a financial splash to end 2023 – announcing $175 million in new funding. The Massachusetts-based Devoted Health is an all-in-one health care company that delivers virtual-first care and insurance to primarily Medicare Advantage patients.

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The Public Health Emergency Proved Certain Regulatory Red Tape Was Unnecessary

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This is because most of the biggest issues have already been addressed by Congress and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). There’s a lot of pieces that are still missing related to home infusion, home dialysis, home-based primary care, home-based imaging, home-based labs and even Medicare personal care services.

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ConcertoCare CEO Dr. Julian Harris Projects Continued Investment Interest In Hospital-At-Home, PACE Models

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Home Health Care News recently caught up with Harris to learn more about trends he is seeing in the investment space, his goals for ConcertoCare and his predictions for the future of home-based care delivery. Harris: I’m a primary care physician — I did the med school, business school combo.