Movers & Shakers: Signify Hires Former OptumInsight CPO; Always Best Care Creates New Exec Position

Signify Health hires former Optum executive Signify Health (NYSE: SGFY) has named Paymon Farazi – the former chief product officer at UnitedHealth Group’s (NYSE: UNH) OptumInsight – as its own chief product officer. Farazi has over 15 years of experience in similar roles at OptumInsight, Cargill and Dell. In his role at Signify Health, he […]

How AccentCare, VNA Health Group Are Acting on Their Value-Based Care Strategies

As more home health providers move into the value-based care space, these organizations are engaging on multiple fronts in order to ensure success. Providers such as VNA Health Group and AccentCare Inc., in particular, exemplify the moves companies are making to support their value-based care strategies. In its broadest definition, value-based care means outcomes over […]

Home Health Providers Believe Value-Based Contracts Will Represent Over Half of Business Soon

Value-based care remains a loaded term in the home health care industry. But nonetheless, its prevalence is growing by the day. Industry insiders have recently told Home Health Care News that likely less than 5% of industry business is conducted through value-based contracts. Contrasted with that is what 42% of providers say, which is that […]

Humana, WCAS Throw $1.2 Billion into CenterWell Senior Primary Care Expansion

Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) and Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe (WCAS) are pumping $1.2 billion into a joint venture to further expand senior-focused, value-based primary care clinics. Specifically, Humana’s CenterWell Senior Primary Care arm will be the partner in the expanded WCAS relationship. The success and expansion of senior-focused value-based primary care could potentially lead […]