Health Blawg

APRIL 8, 2018

The Humana-Kindred deal, the existing United Health Care conglomerate with insurer and provider services, and other providers under the payor umbrella, are further exemplars of this approach — becoming “ payviders ,” to cite the neologism favored by one of my recent podcast guests.

Primary Care 60

Primary Care Integration Urgent Care Pharmaceuticals 60

Health Blawg

APRIL 8, 2018

The Humana-Kindred deal, the existing United Health Care conglomerate with insurer and provider services, and other providers under the payor umbrella, are further exemplars of this approach — becoming “ payviders ,” to cite the neologism favored by one of my recent podcast guests.

Primary Care 60

Primary Care Integration Urgent Care Pharmaceuticals 60

Health Blawg

APRIL 8, 2018

The Humana-Kindred deal, the existing United Health Care conglomerate with insurer and provider services, and other providers under the payor umbrella, are further exemplars of this approach — becoming “ payviders ,” to cite the neologism favored by one of my recent podcast guests.

Primary Care 60

Primary Care Integration Urgent Care Pharmaceuticals 60

Health Blawg

APRIL 8, 2018

The Humana-Kindred deal, the existing United Health Care conglomerate with insurer and provider services, and other providers under the payor umbrella, are further exemplars of this approach — becoming “ payviders ,” to cite the neologism favored by one of my recent podcast guests.

Primary Care 60

Primary Care Integration Urgent Care Pharmaceuticals 60

Patient Safety Movement

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The patient is the most important member of their own healthcare team, as diabetes treatment involves a lot of self-care and preventative lifestyle choices. It considers patient safety integral to all these priorities. Among the 1,018 pregnancy-related deaths, a preventability determination was made for 996 deaths.

Patient Safety 52

Patient Safety Prevention Hospitals Pharmaceuticals 52

Sheppard Health Law

JANUARY 11, 2024

John Kao, CEO of Alignment Healthcare, shared today that only 12% percent of their Medicare Advantage membership accounts for approximately 74% percent of their institutional cost (hospital and facility costs), while conversely their “healthy” membership of 74% accounted for only 5% of their institutional costs.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Primary Care Accountability Ambulatory Care 52

Accountable Care Doctors

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The 31 multi-specialty medical groups and integrated health systems that are part of the Council of Accountable Physician Practices (CAPP), their 85,000 physicians, and hundreds of thousands of staff are at the forefront of the battle for their patients’ lives.

Primary Care 59

Primary Care Integration Remote Care Population Health 59

Sheppard Health Law

JANUARY 11, 2022

While Sinovac primarily addresses the Chinese market, Sinovac has expanded globally and produces the most widely utilized COVID vaccine, accounting for approximately 40% of all COVID vaccine doses administered worldwide. As Humana’s Bruce Broussard shared, the market is early on Medicare Advantage primary care on a risk basis.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Medicare Primary Care Nursing 52

NCQA

MARCH 22, 2023

Sources and Inspiration We developed the Roadmap in partnership with Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals, Inc. DaVita Integrated Kidney Care. The Roadmap highlights recommendations from seven diverse organizations that generously gave time to our interviewers: Accordant Health Services. Fresenius Health Partners—InterWell Health.

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Population Health Pharmaceuticals Accountable Care 52

Health Populi

JULY 1, 2019

And PLM did business deals with large pharmaceutical companies who wanted the data to advance their research and development efforts – that’s how the PLM business was primarily funded. Additionally, many provider organizations are now merged with payer/insurance organizations and may even be integrated with retail companies or tech companies.

Pharmaceuticals 86

Pharmaceuticals Integration Health Data Patient Experience 86

NASHP

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Significant funding has been awarded to states and localities through settlements of lawsuits against pharmaceutical companies and others involved in distribution and sale of prescription opioids. The settlement will also include provisions that will prevent future civil litigation against the family that owns the pharmaceutical company.

Medicaid 52

Medicaid Prevention Pharmaceuticals Primary Care 52

Health Populi

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Financial stress is integral to overall health and well-being based on consumers’ own definition of “health.” These forced 3 in 5 workers to reduce contributions to savings accounts, especially among Millennials. nearly all employees have faced financial issues in their personal life – including challenges in reducing debt and savings.

Medicaid 77

Medicaid Primary Care Medicare Integration 77

Health Populi

DECEMBER 25, 2018

Expect health care costs and access to be at least as important to U.S. A key health care cost focus of Congress will target prescription drug costs. Employers will endeavor to artfully design consumer-directed benefit plans (CDHPs) that nudge insured workers toward healthier habits, while integrating a broader definition of wellness.

Primary Care 107

Primary Care Pharmaceuticals Hospitals Urgent Care 107