Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. (Nasdaq: WBA) announced the appointment of former Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Dr. William H. Shrank to its board of directors as the company continues its strategic turn toward health care services. Currently, Dr. Shrank is a venture partner with the Bio + Health team of Andreesen Horowitz, […]
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Elevance Health Inc. (NYSE: ELV) has raised red flags surrounding its Medicaid business this year, while also signaling its commitment to home-based care ventures. On its second-quarter earnings call, company leaders touted Carelon, Elevance’s health care services division. “In our health services businesses, we are making progress on our key strategic priority to scale our […]
The senior care company Lifespark has been building out its value-based care model for years. Now, it has added in-home urgent care, a key service line for a company taking on upside and downside risk. Ultimately, the goal is to reduce unnecessary emergency room visits or hospitalizations. The urgent care service line will be added […]
The home-based kidney care provider Monogram Health has formed a partnership with Memorial Hermann Health System. The focus of the collaboration is to improve outcomes for patients with polychronic conditions. “Memorial Hermann Health is a well-known, well-established, leading system of population health and hospital-based care,” Dr. Aash Shah, chief growth officer of Monogram Health, told […]
The transition between hospital discharge and home health care is often fraught with issues. Unfortunately, it also happens to be one of the most crucial parts of a patient’s care journey. With more sick and complex patients coming into home health care than ever, a swift start of home health care is also arguably more […]
In April, the U.S Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the launch of a new initiative, Home as a Health Care Hub. The agency views the home as a key care setting that has the potential to drive health care equity forward. That’s why it is seizing the moment, and creating room for experimentation with […]
Hospital-at-home care has a chance to become a mainstay in the larger home-based care ecosystem. As its stakeholders aim to get it there, there are a few factors that need to be considered. Firstly, without payment, there is no hospital-at-home model. Early pioneers of the model in the U.S. know that all too well. But […]
Traditional home-based care companies aren’t the only ones serving seniors, while helping shift care away from brick-and-mortar settings. Adult day, PACE and continuing care retirement communities (CCRCs) without walls are a few of the care models working to meet the needs of seniors that want to age in place. In many ways, these care models […]
Health care is hard – an idea reinforced this week when Walmart (NYSE: WMT) announced the abandonment of its previously grand health care ambitions. There may be a day when the country’s largest retailers, including Walmart, become major players in home-based care delivery, but today is not that day. And other recent developments suggest tomorrow […]
Signify Health was purchased by CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) for $8 billion in March 2023. Now, it’s one of the core tenants of CVS Healthspire, the health care services segment that CVS executives are banking on to drive future growth for the company. The Dallas-based Signify is a health care platform that combines technology, analytics […]
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