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2024 Outlook: 'Blurring of the lines' as providers, retailers and payers plotting primary care plays

Fierce Healthcare

Health systems, insurers, retailers like CVS and tech companies like Amazon are all scrambling for a bigger piece of the medical pie.

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How one FQHC uses telehealth for primary care, behavioral health and addiction treatment

Healthcare It News

Harbor Care Health and Wellness Center in Nashua, New Hampshire, provides primary care, behavioral health and dental services to a population that is either homeless or at risk of homelessness. Harbor Care Health is a Federally Qualified Community Center. THE PROBLEM. Those were the two largest stakeholder groups.

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What’s Causing Fewer Primary Care Visits in the US?

Health Populi

Americans who have commercial health insurance (say, through an employer or union) are rarely thought to face barriers to receiving health care — in particular, primary care, that front line provider and on-ramp to the health care system. So what is primary care, anyway? visits per 100 member-years.

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Primary Care in the U.S. – Still a Weak Backbone for the Health of Health Citizens

Health Populi

Thus, millions of Americans continue to lack access to primary care compared with peers in other nations, according to a report from The Commonwealth Fund. The 2022 Fund report, P rimary Care in High-Income Countries: How the U.S. primary care teams may be a function of underinvestment in certain types of social services.

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AI chatbot K Health picks up $59M in fresh funding, inks partnership with Cedars-Sinai

Fierce Healthcare

Digital primary care startup K Health picked up $59 million from its investors along with one of the largest academic medical centers in California, Cedars-Sinai, to build out its AI-powered medica | Digital primary care startup K Health picked up $59 million from its investors along with one of the largest academic medical centers in California, Cedars-Sinai, (..)

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Humana’s Plans For Value-Based Care, Home Health M&A

Home Health Care

On Wednesday, it released its annual “Value-Based Care Report,” which affirms why its been crucial to the company’s Medicare Advantage (MA) beneficiaries. Overall, MA members who are getting care through value-based arrangements received more time with their primary care physician. Plus, there was a 30.1%

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Increased number of rural counties do not have any local primary care physicians

Healthcare ECONOMIST

How did the number of pediatrician and family medicine physician (FMP) change between 2010 and 2020, particularly for rural areas?