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CareMax Acquires Steward Health’s Medicare Value-Based Care Business for $25M

HIT Consultant

– The acquisition will expand CareMax’s comprehensive and coordinated healthcare delivery system designed to improve overall health outcomes for senior value-based care patients. In addition, CareMax will fund a Medicare receivable to Steward covering accounts receivable related to 2021 and the pre-close period of 2022.

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Integrated EHR enables shift to virtual post-discharge follow-up

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"Timely availability of clinical information during health care transitions, in a setting with robust telemedicine access, can shift the method of care delivery without adversely affecting patient health outcomes," wrote the researchers. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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Health Plans: Tackling Diabetes Disparities for All Americans

HIT Consultant

Health plans would be well-served to reassess how they are supporting some of their most at-risk populations, especially those living with complex diabetes. He co-founded Podimetrics in 2011 while a student at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and he’s served as CEO ever since.

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Aledade Secures $260 Million Series F Financing Round to Expand and Enhance Services for its Nationwide Network of Primary Care Practices

Healthcare IT Today

Aledade unlocks the unique power of independent primary care practices and health centers to improve health outcomes for patients and eliminate wasteful downstream costs – all while doing so at scale with tremendous growth ahead.” From 2011 to 2015, Paul served as Chief Marketing Officer at Booking.com.

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Health Equity Gets Boost from Biosimilars and Evidence-Based Treatment

HIT Consultant

This can be important for patients who rely on costly biologic drugs to manage chronic conditions, as the cost savings from biosimilars can help to reduce the financial burden and improve overall health outcomes.

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Health Care Portals: Looking Beyond the Patients’ Horizon

Healthcare IT Today

Azalea Health is building a platform where third-party vendors can offer patients a variety of services, which are called “niche web applications” by Nathan Shepard, VP of Product there. The idea is similar to the open source SMART Platform , which I have covered several times starting in 2011.

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The Cost to Cover Health Insurance for a Family in America Is $22,221

Health Populi

This report is our go-to encyclopedia of statistics on health insurance year-after-year, surveying companies’ annual health insurance strategies for coverage and tactics for managing spending and workers’ health outcomes. The premium cost-growth between 2011 and 2016 was 20%, and between 2016 and 2021, 22%.