Anthem Inc. (NYSE: ANTM) continues to tout its positioning when it comes to home-based care. The Indianapolis-based insurer acquired myNEXUS — a convener that manages home-based care for payers — earlier this year. Anthem’s focus on how that acquisition improves its overall network since then reflects its home-based commitments. “We closed on the acquisition of […]
Category: Innovation
The Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) concept has gained significant business and policy momentum over the past several months, with recent research also highlighting just how successful programs were at avoiding COVID-19 deaths compared to other care settings. Despite that traction and the model’s clear benefits, PACE still faces a long list […]
Signify Health (NYSE: SGFY) — a value-based care platform with a home-based focus — announced Tuesday that it has activated its “Transition to Home” program for over 50 hospitals in 12 states. The program allows Medicare patients to receive clinical and social care support as they transition from the hospital to the home, and is […]
Compassus has long solidified its spot in the increasingly crowded hospice field. But as the company continues to move forward, it’s positioning itself as an all-around post-acute care provider, with the core of its model being home-based care. “Historically, we’ve been primarily a hospice company, but I think what we’ve learned in hospice care is […]
UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) leaders highlighted key growth drivers for the company during a Thursday morning conference call on Q2 2021 financial results. Execs honed in on three main investment areas, with one being a continued bet on Optum, its in-home care provider. UnitedHealth Group has been one of the more active payers as far […]
The past year has been a busy one for VillageMD. In 2020, Walgreens Boots Alliance (Nasdaq: WBA) entered into a partnership with the startup and announced that it would be investing $1 billion in the value-based primary care provider over the following three years. Since then, VillageMD — through its subsidiary Village Medical — has […]
Similar to many other home-based care pioneers, Jaky Samuel founded her company — Resilient Healthcare — after a deeply personal experience. Samuel, a physical therapist by training, lost her father a little over three years ago. Before he passed away, recurrent strokes forced him in and out of the hospital and skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), […]
Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) has approached CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) in order to expand the coverage of its Amazon Care services, according to a report from Business Insider. CVS Health is the parent company of the health insurer Aetna, which Amazon has reportedly reached out to, among other insurers. The move suggests that Amazon is moving […]
LHC Group Inc. (Nasdaq: LHCG) and SCP Health on Wednesday announced a new strategic partnership aimed at providing higher-acuity care in the home. By joining forces, LHC Group and SCP Health — two very familiar companies with deep Louisiana roots — hope to build the framework for a range of plug-and-play home-based care solutions that […]
Signify Health’s (NYSE: SGFY) leaders are as cautiously optimistic and encouraged by the prospects of direct-contracting models as almost anyone. For now, Signify works with the government to give the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) insight on how the models could work in the future. The company also works with adjacent organizations that […]
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