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WellBe Senior Medical CEO On Demonstrating Value To Payers In The Home

Home Health Care

Kang is the former CMO of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). The Chicago-based WellBe offers home-based medical care services to patients who are facing multiple complex health challenges. When I look at home care, or personal care, that largely hasn’t changed. It’s completely flipped.

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Recognizing the Role of Caregiver with Melissa Fisher | E. 79

Vie Healthcare

Episode Introduction Melissa shares the four challenges faced by caregivers today, calls on doctors to recognize family and patients as a ‘’unit’’, and highlights the ‘’unpaid, untrained, overwhelmed, burned-out’’ reality of caregiving. The manner in which I have to communicate with my mom’s primary care provider is woefully behind.

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WelbeHealth’s Michael Le On The Future Of Innovative At-Home Care Models

Home Health Care

His impressive resume — which also includes time at Optum Home & Community Care and CareMore Health Plan — places him at the forefront of the movement bringing more care to the home and the community. It all started with, in Le’s words, the image of “the revered small-town doc with his black doctor’s bag doing house calls.”

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Exposing Healthcare Fraud with Jonathan Tycko| E. 68

Vie Healthcare

And as you know, obviously a huge percentage of healthcare spending is funded through Medicare, Medicaid, Tricare, the VA system, and these are all programs that are covered by the False Claims Act. Not one of those people who comes from a family of doctors or anything like that either. What goes into all that?”

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Taking Back The Business of Healthcare with Preston Alexander| E. 67

Vie Healthcare

Not for a hospital, it wouldn’t be that much, but whatever it is. $14 So, I launched myself into understanding more about healthcare from a business perspective, because I’m not a clinician, not a nurse or doctor, don’t have any training. Not for a hospital, it wouldn’t be that much, but whatever it is.