What You Should Know:
- The Helper Bees (THB), a full-service insurtech company that creates innovative aging-in-place solutions for both payers and insureds, announced a provider partnership with Roundtrip, the leading technology solution for non-emergency medical transportation (NEMT). This agreement will bring better transportation options to Medicare Advantage (MA), Long Term Care Insurance (LTCI), health systems, and patients nationwide.
- By adding Roundtrip to this network, The
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Lyft Offers Free or Discounted Rides to COVID-19 Vaccination Sites
What You Should Know:
- Starting today, anyone going to get their COVID-19 vaccine can get access to a free or discounted Lyft ride.
- The Lyft initiative in partnership with the White House supports Biden Administration’s goal of getting at least one shot in the arms of 70% of U.S. adults by July 4.
- By May 24, riders will be able to get their ride code directly through the Lyft app or website. After providing a few details, users will receive a code they can apply to
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Clover Health Taps Roundtrip to Provide Non-Emergency Transportation Services for Medicare Advantage Members
What You Should Know:
- Roundtrip, the leading digital healthcare transportation marketplace, announces it is working with Clover Health, an innovative technology company improving health outcomes for America’s seniors, to offer non-emergency medical transportation to Clover’s Medicare Advantage members. The goal of the collaboration is to combat one of the most significant barriers to care for seniors in America: transportation.
- Clover members whose plans include
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Lyft Launches Enhanced Concierge In-App Experience for Healthcare
What You Should Know:
- Lyft launches enhanced Lyft Concierge experience within the rider app like streamlined, multi-language support and advanced security — through their Lyft app account, if they have one.
Lyft Business, today announced the launch of enhanced Lyft Concierge experience with advanced safety features and an enhanced experience when they open their rides in the Lyft app. Lyft Concierge enables organizations to schedule and cover the cost of a ride on behalf of a
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Lyft Launches 60M Ride COVID-19 Vaccine Access Campaign with Anthem, Chase, Epic, United Way, Others
What You Should Know:
- In partnership with JP Morgan Chase; United Way; top
healthcare organizations including Anthem, Centene, One Medical and Epic; and
other non-profit and community partners, Lyft’s goal is to facilitate 60M safe
rides to vaccination sites.
- Lyft’s vaccine access campaign will help the communities who need it most safely travel to receive the vaccine. These rides will be facilitated through its business segment, Lyft Healthcare, and social impact initiative LyftUp.
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Lyft Integrates with Epic EHR to Enable Hospitals to Schedule Rides for Patients
What You Should Know:
- Lyft is continuing to expand rideshare for
non-emergency medical transportation (NEMT) through a first of market direct
integration with Epic, the largest electronic health record (EHR) in the U.S.
- This will have an immediate impact on hospital operations and patients, with currently committed customers including Tampa General and Ochsner Health.
Today, ridesharing leader Lyft announced an integration with EHR provider Epic to enable
health system staff to
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Roundtrip Nabs $4M to Scale Non-Emergency Medical Transportation Marketplace
What You Should Know:
- Digital transportation marketplace startup Roundtrip
raises $4M led by Motley Fool ventures, bringing its total funding to $10.5M.
- The company plans to use the funding to geographically scale and specialize its sales, implementation, and account management model, expand its health plan portfolio and technology integration capabilities.
Roundtrip,
a Philadelphia, PA-based digital transportation marketplace for better health
outcomes, announced the completion
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Ride Health Lands $6.2M to Deliver Real-Time Ride Coordination Platform
- Ride Health, an NYC-based real-time ride coordination platform that improves access to care and patient’s ride experience has raised $6.2M in seed funding. - Penn Medicine is already using Ride Health’s ride coordination platform to reduce costs, no-shows, and length-of-stay. - Ride Health now supports transportation benefit management for health plans in 10 states, optimizing utilization across all transportation modes including mileage reimbursement, public transit, ride-hailing,
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Uber Integrates With Cerner EHR To Enable Clinicians to Order Ride Requests for Patients
- Uber and Cerner announce a partnership that will integrate Uber’s non-emergency transportation solution with Cerner’s EHR system. - The new integration will enable providers to order ride requests for patients to help reduce transportation barriers.Today, Uber Health and Cerner announced that the two companies will work together to help reduce transportation barriers that can lead to delayed care, poor management of chronic conditions and declining health outcomes for patients. With this
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Blue Shield of California, Lyft Launches Pilot Program to Provide Rides to Members in Sacramento
- Blue Shield of California and Lyft launches a pilot program to provide convenient rides to its eligible members in the Sacramento area at no additional cost. - To participate in the program, eligible Blue Shield members need an SMS capable mobile phone. Once they call to self-enroll online and agree to the program's terms and conditions, they can receive rideQSM rides to and from pre-approved healthcare appointments as patients of Associated Family Physicians, Inc.Blue Shield of California, in
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