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. “There’s an advantage in being able to go into a […]
Category: Home-based primary care
Nice Healthcare’s model is not a traditional one, but it does rely heavily on at-home care. It also just landed $30 million in Series A funding. The home-based primary care company sells itself directly to businesses. Those businesses pay a fixed fee on behalf of their employees, and then those employees can access Nice Healthcare’s […]
In December, Patina Health announced that it raised $57 million in Series A. Two months later, the at-home primary care provider has announced its first partnership, with Independence Blue Cross, to serve Medicare Advantage (MA) beneficiaries in Pennsylvania. Patina will gain access to over 100,000 plan members in Southeastern Pennsylvania overall, including those located in […]
Los Angeles-based Heal is among the in-home primary care providers working to “bring back the house call” in modern medicine. It’s doing so in 2022 with a pretty major overhaul to its business strategy. Launched in 2014 by husband-and-wife team Dr. Renee Dua and Nick Desai, Heal started out as an on-demand primary care company […]
ConcertoCare, a value-based care provider that offers an array of home-based care services, announced Thursday that it has raised $105 million in Series B funding. The round was led by Wells Fargo Strategic Capital, and included contributions from Obvious Ventures, Vast Ventures and SteekSky Ventures, among others. In tandem, Concerto also announced that it has […]
Visiting Nurse Association Health Group (VNAHG) and Parker Health Group recently formed a partnership to launch the “Parker Advanced Care Institute at VNAHG,” a home-based primary care joint venture. The partnership stems from a previous relationship between the two organizations, as Parker has awarded grants to VNAHG over the past three years. The grant funding […]
Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. (Nasdaq: WBA) is full-speed ahead on “Walgreens Health,” its recently unveiled health care strategy driven by investments in VillageMD, CareCentrix and Shields Health Solutions. And to accelerate its health care push even more and refocus on long-term growth priorities, the holdings firm for pharmacy store giant Walgreens has initiated a strategic […]
Home-focused primary care providers have proven to be the next emerging faction of an ever-expanding home-based care ecosystem in the U.S. Unlike other emerging trends such as hospital-at-home and SNF-at-home models, which have largely been driven by traditional home health players or health systems, these providers are emerging on their own. But that doesn’t mean […]
The COVID-19 pandemic continued to dominate headlines in 2021, despite the collective desire for it to be gone by this past summer. But it didn’t stop massive dealmaking, which made M&A just as big of a story in home-based care as the virus. Thus, those two topics took up a lot of Home Health Care […]
The public health emergency continued to have an impact on home-based care providers in 2021. It didn’t define the year, however. As the top Home Health Care News stories of 2021 suggest, this year was about so much more than the COVID-19 crisis. Even more than the pandemic, the past 12 months have been about […]
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