What You Should Know: - Homethrive, a tech-enabled healthcare service company that’s disrupting and revolutionizing how employers, insurers, and affinity groups support unpaid family caregivers and their loved ones raises an additional $20M in Series B funding led by Human Capital. The round also included participation from Allianz and existing investors 7wireVentures and Pitango HealthTech. - The funding round fuel Homethrive’s aggressive expansion with self-insured employers and
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Olive Partners with Magenta to Revolutionize Risk Adjustment Process
What You Should Know: - Olive, the automation company creating the Internet of Healthcare, today announced its partnership with Magenta Care Continuum, a HIPAA-compliant health records vault that includes care gap analytics. - Through the Olive Library, payers and providers can access Magenta's solutions to help close care gaps, improve billing and claims occurrence and ensure compliance and revenue integrity for value-based population management. Automating the Risk
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Polygon to Partner with MSP on Healthcare Blockchain Initiative
What You Should Know: - Today, Polygon Networks, a leading blockchain and scaling solution, announced a partnership with Tokenology and MSP Recovery to deliver LifeChain - a new healthcare claims platform. - LifeChain will leverage blockchain technology to solve healthcare's biggest problems, including fraud, inefficiency in payments and antiquated processes. Tokenize Healthcare Claims On-Chain LifeChain will be developed by MSP Recovery and Tokenology as a fully tokenized Medicare,
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COVID-19 Fell Out of Top 5 Telehealth Diagnoses Nationwide in February 2022
What You Should Know: - After two months in the top five telehealth diagnoses nationally and in every US census region, COVID-19 fell out of that ranking nationally and in every region in February 2022, according to FAIR Health's Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker. - The change coincided with a sharp decline in new cases of COVID-19, as reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, following the January
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3 Senior Living Providers Merge to Form Curana Health
What You Should Know: - Three leading organizations that provide healthcare services to senior living communities – Elite Patient Care, Provider Health Services, and AllyAlign Health – have joined forces to form Curana Health. Curana Health’s mission is to improve the health, happiness, and dignity of senior living residents. The Curana Health ACO is a value-based care program for original Medicare beneficiaries. - The combined Curana Health organization spans 26 states and over 1000+
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Raising Clinical Outcomes and Engagement Through Healthcare Equity: What Health Plans Need to Know
Structural racism and poverty are correlated with a higher incidence of obesity among Black Americans (49%). Social drivers of health, which impact a disproportionate number of non-white Americans who live below the poverty line, account for as much as 90% of individuals’ health outcomes. These are just two examples of data that highlight the need for equity. Health plans are well-aware that shifting this dynamic and boosting clinical outcomes is possible through better,
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CareCloud Adds Chronic Care Management Service to its Digital Health Portfolio
What You Should Know: - CareCloud, Inc., a healthcare technology solutions provider for medical practices and health systems nationwide, has announced its new offering, CareCloud Wellness for chronic care management as part of its growing suite of digital health solutions that help providers enhance patient care and revenue streams. - CareCloud Wellness gives practices the means to easily participate in the government’s
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BCBS of Michigan Launches Joint Venture with Honest Medical Group
What You Should Know: - Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (BCBSM) today announced a joint venture with Nashville-based Honest Medical Group to offer physicians comprehensive operational, clinical, and financial support for shared accountability Medicare contracts. - The joint venture is the first of its kind for BCBSM and aligns with the organization's continued expansion of Blueprint for Affordability, its member-focused, value-based care and payment
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What the New CMS Staff Turnover Data Means for Nursing Homes
To make it easier for families and caregivers to evaluate the quality of nursing homes, the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) regularly publishes data on its “Care Compare” website. Anyone can go to the site and search for a facility to find COVID updates, quarterly quality scores, and information on inspections, penalties, ownership, and more. Last month, CMS added additional metrics to how it scores the quality of nursing homes. The information is now available
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Analysis: CMS Data Underestimates Hospital Labor Spending
What You Should Know: - Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) payment adjustments did not adequately address hospitals increased costs for FY 2021, according to new data from Premier. - The data reveals this discrepancy has resulted in hospitals receiving only a 2.4 percent rate increase, compared to a 6.5 percent increase in hospital labor rates, which account for 76 percent of hospital costs. - The data CMS uses to account for real
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