HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 26, 2021

What You Should Know: – Brave Health , a Miami-based virtual behavioral health provider for Medicaid, today announced it has closed a $10M Series B round ($20.75M in total) led by City Light Capital, Union Square Ventures and Able Partners, bringing its total funding to $20.75M. Recent Traction/Milestones.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 16, 2024

These factors can significantly impact their ability to effectively manage their condition and achieve optimal health outcomes. As detailed in a recent brief from the Center for Health Care Strategies, HRSN are prevalent among Medicaid beneficiaries, particularly those living with chronic conditions like IRD.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 18, 2023

What You Should Know: – Michigan is taking a major step forward in improving maternal and infant health by expanding access to the Philips Avent Pregnancy+ mobile app for Medicaid-eligible families. This success has led to: Over 1,000 Medicaid-eligible individuals connecting with home visiting programs.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Brave Health , the largest virtual mental health provider and engagement platform focused on serving Medicaid populations, today announced a $40M Series C funding round led by Town Hall Ventures, with existing investors Union Square Ventures, City Light Capital and others joining as well.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The Medicaid and CHIP Access to Prescription Digital Therapeutics Act seeks to expand care options that can help improve health outcomes and quality of life for those facing barriers to healthcare. The act would also define "prescription digital therapeutic" in Medicaid and allow U.S. WHY IT MATTERS.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 15, 2023

The partnership brings yet another level of important care services into the home for health plans using MedArrive, especially those that serve Medicaid beneficiaries. spends more than $320 billion – or 15 percent of the total health expenditure – treating or managing cardiovascular disease (CVD).

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Health Care Law Brief

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

While still subject to legislative approval, the Executive Budget incorporates the recently approved amendment (“Waiver Amendment”) to New York’s Medicaid Section 1115 Demonstration that includes $7.5 billion in Medicaid investments over the next three years. Services will be delivered via a two-tiered system.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 26, 2023

The following is a guest article by Ashley Perry, MPH, Chief Strategy and Solutions Officer at Socially Determined When Congress passed the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 , it decoupled the Public Health Emergency (PHE) from the Medicaid program’s continuous enrollment provision, which was implemented as part of the PHE in March 2020.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

What You Should Know: – MDwise and Cityblock Health , the first tech-driven healthcare provider for communities with complex health and social needs announced that they will be collaborating to provide high-quality, comprehensive care to 10,000 Medicaid members at launch in select Indiana communities, including Indianapolis.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 29, 2023

This past week, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed Senate Bill 1196a/Assembly Bill 1673a into law directing all state-regulated health plans, including Medicaid, to cover comprehensive biomarker testing, clearing the path for more patients to access precision medicine treatments.

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Bill of Health

AUGUST 22, 2022

The additional steps needed for accessing lifesaving therapies by requiring prescribers to create and submit PAs are deterrents that can result in treatment delays, relapse, and worse health outcomes for patients who are already in a vulnerable state.

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C&M Health Law

JANUARY 18, 2023

On January 4, in its most recent effort to expand federal support for addressing health-related social needs (HRSNs), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued guidance to clarify an existing option for states to address HRSNs through the use of “in lieu of” services and settings policies in Medicaid managed care.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 26, 2024

million members through contracts with leading regional and national Medicaid Managed Care Organizations, Medicare Advantage plans, commercial insurers, and over one thousand employers. Notably, members continue to improve their health outcomes even three years later. Currently, Foodsmart serves over 2.2

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Fierce Healthcare

AUGUST 3, 2023

Such programs have been shown to provide significant cost savings and be a cost-effective way to improve health outcomes and reduce disparities in underserved populations—particularly as Medicaid redeterminations threaten many individuals' access to care.

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Health Populi

JUNE 23, 2023

adults rate of uninsurance are highest in the states where Governors did not expand Medicaid, which are states indicated by the orange bars. This 2023 Scorecard of health system performance added a new metric to the analysis — Reproductive Care and Women’s Health. This domain encompasses health outcomes and access.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Address Cardiometabolic Conditions and Maternal Health The three-year deal will leverage Walmart’s position as a retailer and provider of health and wellness services, and CareSource’s role in the administration and delivery of Medicaid, Medicare and other health plan benefits and services.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 5, 2024

Software that streamlines operations and enables agencies to achieve better health outcomes will play a key role in this projected growth, as home and community-based services (HCBS) providers increasingly turn to such tools to manage all aspects of their agency operations.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Expanding those successful screening practices across departments and practices, like family medicine, maternal and infant health, pediatrics and cardiology, etc. Gathering reliable data for research that can explore associations between positive screens and health outcomes, healthcare utilization and cost.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 20, 2024

Anish Sebastian, CEO and Co-founder, Babyscripts A health plan’s success rests on many factors: improving health outcomes, controlling costs, optimizing risk adjustment, and encouraging member adherence to a specific care plan. Health plans have struggled to close the loop on engagement for various reasons.

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NY Health Law

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

On January 9, 2024, the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) finally approved New York State’s 1115 waiver amendment to establish the New York Health Equity Reform (NYHER) Program. Workforce: Workforce investments with a goal of equitable and sustainable access to care in Medicaid.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 25, 2024

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services just released data on its Acute Hospital Care at Home initiative , which thus far has admitted 11,159 patients suffering from respiratory infections, heart failure and severe sepsis. Where is this data going to come from and what must hospital and health system IT executives do here?

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 31, 2022

"The ability to use and build from established standards in real-time and as part of screening practices that help identify specific needs related to insecurity is an important step in enabling more coordinated care and timely assistance or interventions needed to improve health outcomes," according to Argentieri, Meklir and Henry.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 12, 2024

We’ve heard firsthand from payers, providers and pharmaceutical companies that their business goals are to elevate the patient experience, facilitate better health outcomes and improve access to care for all, especially those with health disparities,” said Emma Cartmell, co-founder and managing partner of Create Health Ventures. “We

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NEJM

APRIL 7, 2023

People who are dually enrolled in Medicare and Medicaid face issues related to fragmented care and poor health outcomes associated with inadequate coordination of benefits and services.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 18, 2022

Social determinants of health are major contributors to health inequity and rising healthcare costs in vulnerable populations such as Medicaid beneficiaries. How do care management interventions to mitigate SDOH as a risk for undesired health outcomes work?

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Tom Wriggins, Principal Industry Advisor at SAS John Maynard, CPA, CFE, AHFI Principal Solutions Architect at SAS In 2022, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) established health equity as a pillar of its future work. Health outcomes and Medicaid program integrity Health outcomes are a function of the quality of care.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

– Using Gainwell’s advanced research platform and de-identified Medicaid claims data from select clients, Stanford concluded that 30 percent of patients prescribed opioids for the first time developed a dependency. Stanford used 180,000 de-identified Medicaid claims from six states.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 1, 2024

Joining Forces to Deliver Demonstrably Improved Health Outcomes and Meaningful Cost Savings to Patients, U.S. million eligible patients through more than 680 health centers across 41 U.S. Employer, and Union-Sponsored Clients Extends Reach to Serve 2.5 Million Eligible Patients and Over 630 U.S.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 10, 2023

The virtual care services will be delivered without copays, out-of-pocket costs or deductibles for families with active insurance or Medicaid coverage. WHY IT MATTERS. "As pediatric primary care providers, we know the short- and long-term medical and neurodevelopmental advantages of breastfeeding," said Dr.

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Jane Sarashon

JANUARY 19, 2024

Elevance Health, the health plan organization comprising XXX plans serving 117 million members, launched a program to channel mobile phones and data plans into the hands of some Medicaid plan enrollees, explained in the organization’s press release on the program.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 16, 2024

Pear Suite’s customizable care navigation platform enables CHWs, promotores, health representatives, doulas and others to better assess and address SDOH in a cost-effective, person-centered, and culturally and linguistically sensitive way. Pear Suite currently contracts with 15 health plans with access to support over 10 million lives.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 6, 2024

What You Should Know: – Ochsner Digital Medicine , a leader in remote patient management, has partnered with Humana Healthy Horizons, Louisiana’s Medicaid plan, to offer digital health programs for members diagnosed with hypertension and type 2 diabetes.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

America is the only wealthy nation to lack universal health coverage. Under-investment in social determinants of health are major drivers of inequitable health outcomes in the United States. health system continue to exacerbate poor health and disparities. Uninsured people in the U.S. COVID-19 and the U.S.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 21, 2024

While these tools promise better health outcomes and cost savings, the research paints a different picture: Small, Unsustained Improvements: HbA1c reductions, a key diabetes measure, were minimal (0.23 Payers: Health plans and employers should require evidence of tool benefits and tie financial coverage to clinical outcomes.

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CMS.gov

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Better Data Will Serve as the Foundation in Modernizing the Medicaid Program. Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Medicaid & CHIP. Better Data Will Serve as the Foundation in Modernizing the Medicaid Program. Between 2013 and 2016, Federal spending on Medicaid grew by over $100 billion.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The newest value-based payment program purposely designed to address SDOH is the ACO Realizing Equity, Access, and Community Health (ACO REACH) model, launched by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 10, 2022

What You Should Know: mPulse Mobile , a leader in conversational AI and digital engagement solutions for the healthcare industry, released 2 major announcements: – acquired HealthCrowd , a leading communications platform-as-a-service innovator focused primarily on the Medicaid market. Acquisition Impact for mPulse.

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