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

HIT Consultant

The agreement is designed to improve the health of Highmark’s members by providing accessible, high quality, cost effective, patient centered care through member collaboration and innovation. The integration between inpatient and outpatient care teams will ensure seamless coordination of care. “We

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Palliative Care in Medicaid — Costing Out the Benefit: Actuarial Analysis of Medicaid Experience

NASHP

The absence of a comprehensive Medicaid benefit across state programs can partly be attributed to confusion about what palliative care entails, the combination of both medical and non-medical services in one service, and how they can be included as part of their Medicaid benefit package. Appendices.

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Long-Term Care Pharmacy Billing: An Ultimate Guide

Etactics

Such issues may include navigating billing models, payer requirements, and complicated Medicare guidelines. The financing of LTC services comes from a variety of public and private sources. State Medicaid and Medicare Part D plans make up the primary payers. Medicare Part D helps cover the cost of prescribed medications.

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Sick Profit: Investigating Private Equity’s Stealthy Takeover of Health Care Across Cities and Specialties

KHN

They argue that private equity’s playbook, while it may work in some industries, is ill suited for health care, when people’s lives are on the line. The firms have made inroads into ancillary services such as diagnostic and urine-testing and software for managing billing and other aspects of medical practice.

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Sick Profit: Investigating Private Equity’s Stealthy Takeover of Health Care Across Cities and Specialties

KHN

They argue that private equity’s playbook, while it may work in some industries, is ill suited for health care, when people’s lives are on the line. The firms have made inroads into ancillary services such as diagnostic and urine-testing and software for managing billing and other aspects of medical practice.

Doctors 52