DispatchHealth Raises $330M for Hospital-at-Home Care DispatchHealth, a provider of in-home medical care raises $330M led by Optum Ventures with support from current investors such as Humana (NYSE: HUM), Oak HC/FT, Echo Health Ventures and Questa Capital. New investors included Adams Street Partners, the Olayan Group, Silicon Valley Bank, Pegasus Tech Ventures and Blue Shield of California. Patients and their care partners can request DispatchHealth medical care via phone, mobile app, or
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Resilience Lab Joins Aetna In-Network for Mental Health
What You Should Know: - Resilience Lab, a mental health provider enabling communities of clinicians to improve outcomes and access announced that it has joined Aetna as an in-network mental healthcare provider. - Resilience now has in-network partnerships with three of the nation’s largest health insurance carriers, including Aetnea, United Healthcare and Humana, allowing them to serve more than 50 million Americans across five northeast states. - This expansion is a key part of
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Humana Taps Cohere Health to Streamline Prior Authorizations for Cardiovascular & Surgical Specialties
What You Should Know: - Health insurer Humana has expanded its partnership with Cohere Health to streamline the prior authorization process for cardiovascular care and surgical specialties. Both these care pathways are clinically complex, involving multiple exchanges between primary care physicians and specialists, which can contribute to costly and unnecessary variations in care. - For surgical services, Humana staff will use the Cohere Unify™
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Is It Finally Time for Hospital-at-Home or is Time Up?
All the signs point to a bright and expansive future for hospital-at-home programs, which have been growing steadily since the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) created the Acute Hospital at Home waiver program in November 2020. As of March, nearly 100 health systems and more than 200 hospitals in 34 states had been approved for the program. Meanwhile, Forrester predicts the number of hospitals delivering acute care at home will triple in 2022. The reasons why are compelling: a study
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Komodo Health Appoints COO, Transcarent, Vytalize Health, RxBenefits, Other Digital Health Appointments
Komodo Health has named Dr. Aswin Chandrakantan as its Chief Operating Officer. Dr. Chandrakantan will also continue to serve as the firm’s Chief Medical Officer, a role he has held since 2016. Dr. Chandrakantan was one of Komodo Health’s earliest employees – following leadership roles at McKinsey and Google – and has played a central role in the company’s rapid-fire growth. RxBenefits appoints Wendy Barnes as its new Chief Executive Officer. Barnes succeeds Bryan Statham, who served as the
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HealthQuest Capital Closes $675M for Fund IV to Invest in Transformational Healthcare Companies
What You Should Know: - HealthQuest Capital, a sector specialist capital firm focused on companies optimizing value in healthcare, today announced the close of HealthQuest Partners IV, L.P., at its hard cap of $675M . - The oversubscribed fund will enable HealthQuest to continue to invest in growth-stage companies that are revolutionizing the healthcare industry. Providing Growth Capital to Companies Transforming Healthcare Founded in 2013 by Garheng Kong, a physician, scientist, and
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League Partners with Google Cloud to Accelerate Healthcare Consumer Experiences
What You Should Know: - League today announced a strategic partnership with Google Cloud that aims to accelerate and enable successful digital transformation for healthcare providers, payers, pharmacy retailers and employers. - By leveraging Google Cloud's Healthcare API, League is able to deliver a comprehensive healthcare consumer experience platform and enable the most personalized omnichannel experiences on the market. The partnership will also include the addition of the League
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Elizabeth Dole Foundation & Cerner Launch Clinical Council
What You Should Know: - In partnership with Cerner Corporation, the Elizabeth Dole Foundation, today announced the launch of the Inclusive Care Clinical Council, a group of healthcare experts, leaders and stakeholders who will assess the impact of the Foundation’s Inclusive Care efforts and guide how it can be expanded to healthcare systems. - The goals of the Clinical Council are to generate a dialogue around assessing the system-wide impact of inclusive care, identify how
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Cohere Health, Humana Expand Partnership to Transform Prior Authorization Process
What You Should Know: - Cohere Health announced that Humana Inc. is embarking on a nationwide expansion of Cohere's digital prior authorization platform for musculoskeletal (MSK) services, based on the success of its initial implementation. - After rolling out the platform across 12 states in January 2021, Humana has made significant progress toward achieving its vision to reimagine and modernize processes for prior authorization by reducing approval times, increasing provider
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Humana Acquires Integrated Post-Acute Care Provider onehome – M&A
What You Should Know: - Humana Inc. announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire integrated post-acute care provider One Homecare Solutions (“onehome”) from WayPoint Capital Partners (WayPoint), the private equity affiliate of a New York-based family investment office. - The acquisition will further advance Humana’s strategy to build a value-based home health offering. - Founded in 2013, onehome is a provider of a variety of home-based services, as well as a convener
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