Cedar Gate Technologies
(Cedar Gate), a Greenwich, CT-based value-based care
performance management company, today announced its acquisition
of Citra Health Solutions (Citra), a
provider of capitation management software solutions.
Expands Value-Based Care Technology Suite with Citra's Capitation
Management Solutions
By acquiring Citra, Cedar Gate expands its software and
services capabilities across the full spectrum of value-based care. By
combining Cedar Gate's existing capabilities in
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UnitedHealthcare Dental Rolls Out New Teledentistry Option
What You Should Know:
- New offering is part of UnitedHealthcare Dental’s
comprehensive response to COVID-19, which also includes financial support for
customers and enhanced payments for network providers.
- Dental care ranks among the most frequently avoidable
ER visits, with the emergence of teledentistry providing a key resource to help
people make more informed decisions about where to go for care and avoid
potential exposure risks with in-person care facilities.
With
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DispatchHealth Raises $135.8M to Expand On-Demand In-Home Care Model
What You Should Know
- Today DispatchHealth announced the closing of $135.8 million growth capital financing led by Optum Ventures and included participation from existing and new strategic investors.
- The additional funding enables DispatchHealth to
continue to provide in-home medical care to even more vulnerable, high-needs
patients by growing its existing 19 markets, expanding to new markets, and
launching additional services.
- Many health systems, including Renown Health and
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How Social Determinants of Health Will Impact the Future of Benefit Coverages
Do you have access to healthy foods, transportation to a doctor, high-speed internet for telemed appointments, or a roof over your head? These are assumptions that most of us take for granted, and are not the questions that insurers usually take into consideration. But, as they look to increase member outcomes and foster long-term customer loyalty, considering the changing needs of many consumers in the face of today’s current affairs, it’s time they did.
In fact, forward-looking health plans
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What Therapists Need to Know about Telehealth Technology
Thousands of therapists who never intended to engage in telehealth are now doing exactly that – they are providing services to clients in lockdown using video-enabled platforms. While the technological landscape for psychotherapy is dramatically improved from even a few years ago, therapists rapidly transitioning to online services need to hold a few things in mind.
It’s not the same as in-person therapy
While online psychotherapy has been shown to be just as effective as in-person care,
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The New Normal: Rethinking Healthcare Delivery in a Post-COVID World
It’s becoming clearer that, while we are all hoping that things are going to go back to the way things were at the beginning of the year, the COVID-19 crisis will result in a new normal. That’s especially true in healthcare, due to four issues that are being wildly amplified by the COVID-19 crisis. Namely:
1. The US government has huge deficits, and healthcare is a major driver of the unsustainable increase in these deficits.
2. Addressing the demand for healthcare as a right (not a
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Care Coordination Network PatientPing Raises $60M to Fuel Expansion
What You Should Know:
- PatientPing raises $60M in Series C funding to fuel expansion to new geographies and extends the capabilities of their care coordination network solutions.
- As the nation’s leading care collaboration and
patient event notifications (e-notifications) platform, PatientPing’s
comprehensive suite of solutions leverage real-time patient data and are used
by provider organizations, hospitals, health plans, governments, individuals
and the organizations supporting
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Colorado Health Plan Deploys Texting for COVID-19 Medicaid Outreach for Its Members
What You Should Know:
- Colorado
Access has deployed a text message program to its Medicaid members to quickly
distribute basic facts on COVID-19 and health risk information, as well as
resources for people who might be struggling with their mental health during
the pandemic and information on where to get food and unemployment support.
- Through
its partnership with Welltok, the health plan sent more than 700,000 texts over
three weeks in English and Spanish. Using Welltok’s data
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Telehealth Claim Lines Increase 4,347% Nationally from March 2019 to March 2020
What You Should Know:
- Telehealth claim lines increased 4,347 percent
nationally from 0.17 percent of medical claim lines in March 2019 to 7.52
percent in March 2020, according to new data from FAIR Health's Monthly
Telehealth Regional Tracker.
- The data represent the privately insured population,
excluding Medicare and Medicaid. In an indication that the growth was related
to the COVID-19 pandemic, the increase was even greater in the Northeast, where
the pandemic hit
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Telehealth Could Be The Solution for a Pandemic, But Are We Too Late?
In the past several months, Novel Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) has risen from humble beginnings in a Wuhan farmer’s market to international status: dominating the news cycle, exhausting the world’s hand sanitizer resources, and generally monopolizing the mental real estate of the developed world.
As new cases continue to be identified in the U.S., politicians are giving coronavirus the attention it deserves, responding to initial accusations of inadequacy with proposals for funding and
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