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Transcarent launched a first-of-its-kind bundled payment model for bispecific T-cell engager (BiTE) and chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapies delivered through community oncology providers.Addresses the primary cost driver for self-insured employers: the Business Group on Health’s survey found that cancer is the No. 1 condition driving employer healthcare costs for the fifth consecutive year, with 70% of employers citing it as their top cost driver.Breakthrough
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WebMD Ignite, CCS Health, and Medicine for the Greater Good Partner to Launch Collaborative Care Network
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WebMD Ignite, CCS Health, and Medicine for the Greater Good (a Johns Hopkins Medicine initiative) launched the Collaborative Care Network™ (CCN), a clinical-community operating platform for rural health systems.Aligns with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Rural Health Transformation Program, which is distributing $50 billion between 2026 and 2030 to expand rural access, workforce, technology, and regional healthcare partnerships.Addresses major
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PatientPoint Releases 2026 Patient Confidence Index on Healthcare Anxiety, Provider Trust, and AI
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PatientPoint® released the findings of its fifth annual Patient Confidence Index, conducted in partnership with Talker Research among 2,000 U.S. adults who attended a medical appointment within the past year.Rising Systemic Anxiety vs. High Provider Trust: 43% of respondents reported increased healthcare anxiety over the past year—driven by care affordability (54%), inflation (41%), and policy changes (39%)—causing 47% of patients to delay preventive care.Despite broad
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Cityblock Acquires Homeward and Secures $116M to Unify Urban-Rural Care
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Cityblock Health entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Homeward Health in an all-stock transaction, paired with a $116M Series E financing round led by General Catalyst.The combined entity now serves nearly 200,000 members nationwide across Medicaid, Medicare Advantage, and dual-eligible programs, generating $2.2B in annualized revenue (up 77% year-over-year and more than 4x its 2021 fundraise level).Homeward Health brings a dedicated rural-first Medicare
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Impact Primary Care Network Deploys Innovaccer for Autonomous Population Health
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Impact Primary Care Network (IPCN), a physician-led, clinically integrated network in Western North Carolina, has partnered with Innovaccer to establish an operational foundation for its care management and population health initiatives.Over nearly two years of deployment, IPCN utilized Innovaccer’s care management solution and population health dashboards to automate patient prioritization, care gap identification, and protocol tracking.The deployment has strengthened
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Mass General Brigham Launches First Home Hospital Trials for Dementia and Behavioral Health
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Mass General Brigham announced the launch of two clinical trials to evaluate acute, hospital-level care delivered in the home for patients living with dementia and those experiencing primary psychiatric conditions.The dementia trial, funded by the National Institute on Aging (NIA), is a randomized controlled study enrolling 200 patients followed for one year; it evaluates whether proactive care planning, virtual urgent care, and mobile integrated health paramedics can
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JD Power Finds Medicare Advantage Satisfaction Drops as Members Demand Patient Advocacy
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Overall customer satisfaction with Medicare Advantage plans dropped 12 points in 2026 to 611 (on a 1,000-point scale), marking a 41-point cumulative decline since 2024 across all measured dimensions of the member experience, according to the JD Power 2026 U.S. Medicare Advantage Study.Fewer than half (43%) of plan members strongly agree that their Medicare Advantage insurer is a trusted partner in their health and wellness.The largest two-year satisfaction declines
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Papa Expands Multi-Year Medicare Advantage Partnership with eternalHealth Across Massachusetts and Arizona
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Papa announced the expansion of its multi-year partnership with eternalHealth, a women-owned Medicare Advantage plan operating in Massachusetts and Arizona.The expanded agreement integrates Papa Plus pathways into eternalHealth’s companion care benefit, specifically targeting HEDIS and Health Outcomes Survey (HOS) performance to lift CMS Star Ratings.The collaboration introduces three structured, outcomes-driven in-home pathways:Post-Discharge Support: Focuses on the
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Accompany Health Report: Transforming Dual-Eligible Outcomes, Star Ratings, and MLR at Scale
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New data from Accompany Health rejects industry norms that count passive phone calls or consent checkboxes as engagement (which typically yields only 20–30% reach), setting a standard defined by a completed in-home visit conducted jointly by an Advanced Practice Clinician (APC) and a dedicated Health Advocate.Accompany Health achieves a 55% engagement rate among attributed dual-eligible and complex Medicare Advantage members, with 99% of engaged patients in 2024 remaining
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The Rise of Silent Burnout in Senior Care Leadership
Every senior care organization is talking about caregiver burnout. Far fewer are asking a more uncomfortable question: what happens when the people leading the organization become exhausted too?
Executive burnout rarely announces itself through dramatic collapse. Leaders still show up, make choices, participate in meetings, and resolve issues. Operations seem stable from the outside. However, persistent weariness subtly alters leaders' perspectives behind that stability. Constant crisis
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