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- Socially Determined, the leading social risk analytics company, and Uber Health, the healthcare platform for seamless benefit coordination, have announced a partnership to empower individuals and families facing common healthcare challenges.
- The strategic joint effort focuses on connecting vulnerable Medicaid, Medicare Advantage, and commercially insured beneficiaries with critical supplemental benefits like transportation, food delivery, and medication
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Care Guidance: The Human-Enabled Tech Solution for Clinical Staff
Hospitals, health systems and group practices nationwide are finding value and effectiveness by partnering with an outsourced care guidance resource to extend clinical staff and strengthen care management support. The addition of a structured and highly scalable care guidance program that goes beyond mere navigation efforts provides a unique solution as a service proposition to comprehensively address many of the operational and financial challenges that directly affect the entire provider
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Pair Team Expands in California, Empowering Underserved Communities
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Pair Team, a virtual and community-based primary care solution connecting Medicaid’s highest-risk patients to high-quality care, today announced its expansion into seven new California markets: Fresno, Merced, Monterey, Los Angeles, Santa Cruz, San Joaquin, and Stanislaus counties.This move enables the company to further improve access to California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal (CalAIM) care benefits by reaching a larger number of patients, providers
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Embracing SDOH Data Monitoring for Transformative Healthcare
Understanding the multifaceted dimensions of patient wellness goes beyond the medical symptoms presented in a clinical setting. In order to maximize positive patient outcomes, healthcare providers must examine and monitor the social factors and life circumstances, or the Social Determinants of Health (SDOH), that significantly influence population health. These determinants – encompassing aspects of life such as access to care and technology, food or housing insecurity, core demographics and
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Pair Team Secures $9M to Connect Underserved Communities to Care
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Pair Team, a virtual and community-based primary care solution connecting Medicaid's highest-risk patients to high-quality care, today announced it has raised $9 million in Series A funding. The financing was led by NEXT VENTURES, with participation from PTX Capital, Kapor Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Y Combinator, and several notable healthcare angel investors including Jay Desai.The funding will be used to help Pair Team accelerate its
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Ounce Raises $5.2M to Bridge the Gap Between Housing and Health
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- Ounce, a company bridging the gap between health and housing has raised a $5.2M seed round co-led by Meridian Street Capital and Flare Capital Partners with participation from Chelsea Clinton’s Metrodora Ventures Wilshire Lane Capital, Chris Nassetta (Hilton CEO), Taylor Justice (Unite Us cofounder), and others.
- Ounce Community Health Workers (CHW) currently serve more than 2,000 D.C. residents, helping them enroll in Medicaid, apply for energy assistance,
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The SDOH Reality Check: Coding, Claims and Value-Based Care
While the need to address social determinants of health (SDOH) is definitely not new, 2023 marks the first year SDOH is codified into national and statewide value-based payment program mandates. These mandates are designed to hold Managed Care Organizations (MCOs) and Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) accountable. While the rollout of SDOH code sets across our healthcare ecosystem is one phase, alone it’s not enough. The next phases are even more critical: codes must be collected, used,
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Why Accurate Data is a Lifeline to Care in the Medicaid Redetermination Cycle
During the pandemic, Medicaid enrollment grew by nearly 30% to cover more than 93 million Americans, due in large part to COVID-19 provisions that included continuous Medicaid enrollment. With the unwinding of these pandemic emergency orders, annual cycles of Medicaid redetermination have returned. As a result, states have removed close to 4 million Americans from Medicaid to date. The ongoing redetermination process is likely to expand health inequities across the nation, including in
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ZeOmega Integrates SDOH Platform w/ Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare
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ZeOmega announced it has integrated its Jiva Population Health Enterprise Management Platform’s SDOH Social Care solution with Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare built for Microsoft Azure. The integration empowers healthcare organizations with Azure to achieve increased access, seamless compatibility, and unmatched administrative efficiency, enabling smoother processes and freeing healthcare professionals to prioritize exceptional patient care. SDOH takes center
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UnitedHealthcare Awards $11.1M in Grants to Expand Care Access
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UnitedHealthcare, today announced it is awarding $11.1 million in grants to 66 nonprofit organizations across 12 states through its Empowering Health program. These grants address social determinants of health (SDoH) and help uninsured individuals and underserved communities. Since launching its Empowering Health commitment in 2018, UnitedHealthcare has invested more than $62 million in Empowering Health grants reaching more than 11 million people through
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