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

Home Health Care

For about 10 years, I was running a group practice, doing that, caring for people in nursing homes, in the home etc. The big difference, probably, in the last maybe 10 to 15 years is that Medicaid, state agencies, have actually started paying for it, as part of an effort to keep people out of nursing homes and in the home.

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

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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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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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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.

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

Home Health Care

Now, it’s very robust, and obviously, an expensive model with fully employed docs, nurse practitioners, psychiatrists, social workers, nurses, pharmacists, dieticians and navigators. They don’t want to be treated in a nursing home. As for nursing homes, the outcomes just are not as good in many instances.

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Optimizing Healthcare for Heart Disease with HeartFlow | E. 62

Vie Healthcare

So medication and health compliance, discussing care plans, and certainly even follow up to the primary care provider or that referring physician is impactful. For hospitals, it’s probably a little different as far as what ultimately persuades them. And some people may ask, “Why did you choose York Hospital?

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Taking Back The Business of Healthcare with Preston Alexander| E. 67

Vie Healthcare

Episode Introduction Preston explains that the principal issue with US healthcare is its profit-driven approach, why healthcare must be a forward-thinking Netflix, rather than an obsolete Blockbuster, and why the nursing shortage is the result of a broken system. Today, we’re 300,000 nurses short. What goes into all that?”