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Bridges Health Partners Highmark BCBS Form Commercial Value-Based Care Agreement

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What You Should Know: Bridges Health Partners LLC (Bridges) , a Clinically Integrated Network, and Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield (Highmark) entered into a multi-year Value-Based Agreement for Highmark’s Commercial membership in Western Pennsylvania. Established in 2017 through a collaboration between Independence Health System, St.

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VCU Health Brings Hospital-At-Home Program To Central Virginia

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VCU Health at Home’s service lines includes home-based primary care, primary and specialty telehealth appointments, remote patient monitoring as well as skilled home health and hospice care. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Acute Hospital Care At Home waiver program.

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How States Can Embed Palliative Care in Health Care Reform Initiatives

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State policymakers have a number of different opportunities to integrate palliative care into current health care initiatives. Palliative care can be an important component of these strategies. Ensure palliative care specialists are included in Medicaid MCO networks.

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Seven Steps for Building a Community-Based Palliative Care Benefit Within Medicaid

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High-quality palliative care can both improve quality of life and avoid unnecessary and often unwanted treatments for Medicaid enrollees with serious illness. States can support palliative care in a number of ways and across a range of settings (e.g., in hospitals, embedded within enhanced primary care, via home health).

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Roundups: 17 Recent Strategic Digital Health Partnerships

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care.ai, an advanced Smart Care Facility Platform partners with Samsung to bring the highest quality graphics and display to care settings, elevating the patient experience by transforming hospitals, nursing homes and care facilities with smarter, more responsive care environments. devices paired with Samsung displays.

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Sustainability and Value: State Palliative Care Reimbursement Strategies

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It is increasingly clear that any program’s ability to improve care value is critically reliant on targeting the right patients — not too many, not too few, but the right ones.” — Diane E. The state began implementation of palliative care legislation with an analysis of state Medicaid claims and encounter data.

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

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This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership In the broader at-home care space, Dr. Michael Le is considered an innovator. As the co-founder and former chief medical officer of Landmark Health, he was integral in helping build a company that would eventually catch the eye of UnitedHealth Group’s (NYSE: UNH) Optum.

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