value-based care
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Healthcare M&A Activity Reaches 3-Year Low, But It Might Pick Up in the Back Half of ‘23
M&A activity in the healthcare sector continued to decline in the second quarter of 2023, with the number of deals reaching its lowest point in three years. However, a new report predicted that M&A activity could increase in the second half of this year due to healthcare companies’ continually shrinking valuations and their divestitures of non-core assets.
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Prescribing Change for the Impact Pharmacists Can Make in Healthcare
Even as value-based care finds its footing and expands further, team-based approaches to care delivery incorporating pharmacists as crucial connections are already bearing results—helping provider organizations achieve 5-star CMS ratings for medication adherence, driving down costs, and driving up the quality of life for patients.
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Payer’s Place: Dawn Maroney
Dawn Maroney, President, Markets of Alignment Health and CEO of Alignment Health Plan, to discuss how they are using technology to provide better service and care to consumers.
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A New Approach to Value-Based Care: Diagnostically Connecting Data and Diagnoses
The traditional transactional approach to the coding of diagnoses to support billing in a fee-for-service environment is not adequate to meet the care requirements of VBC programs.
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Aledade Rakes in $260M for Primary Care Network
Aledade’s $260 million financing round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, a new investor of the company. It also included participation from Venrock, Avidity Partners, OMERS Growth Equity and Fidelity Management and Research Company.
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CMS Tests New Primary Care Model in 8 States
The Making Care Primary Model will be tested by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation from July 1, 2024, to December 31, 2034, in Colorado, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina and Washington.
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Syntax Health Launches Solution To Streamline Value-based Care Contracts
Syntax Health’s new two-sided software-as-a-service solution allows payers and providers (as well as actuaries, network managers and analysts) to collaborate in creating a value-based contract.
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Upperline Health Snags $58M for Its Network of Value-Based Specialty Care Clinics
Upperline Health, a provider network focused on value-based specialty care, recently raised $58 million. The startup identifies patients who are seeing specialists four or more times a year and provides them with an interdisciplinary care team that treats them at a clinic, in their home or via phone.
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Yuvo Health Rakes In $20.2M to Help FQHCs Thrive in Value-Based Care Models
Yuvo Health — a startup focused on enabling value-based care at FQHCs — recently raised $20.2 million in Series A funding. The company is using the money to expand its reach from New York to Ohio.
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Why One Analyst Is Encouraged by Healthcare IT’s Fundraising Rebound
Healthcare IT companies experienced a bounceback in venture capital deal activity during Q1 of 2023. Rebecca Springer, PitchBook ’s lead healthcare analyst, said she is optimistic that healthcare IT startups will be able to keep this momentum going, especially those focused on staffing and value-based care enablement.
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Applying Remote Patient Monitoring to Surgery Prep and Recovery, Oncology and Women’s Health
Join us to learn about the latest trends in remote monitoring and how to extend its benefits beyond chronic conditions to more patients – all while using fewer staff resources.
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Strive Health Rakes In $166M for Value-based Kidney Care
Strive Health’s $166 million funding round was led by NEA and included participation from CVS Health Ventures, CapitalG, Echo Health Ventures, Town Hall Ventures, Ascension Ventures and Redpoint. In total, the company has raised more than $400 million.
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Providers Need to Commit to VBC Sooner Rather Than Later, Experts Agree
Experts argued that value-based care is here to stay and will play a major role in the future of healthcare during MedCity’s Invest conference in Chicago. A panel of four agreed that the success of value-based care depends on organizational commitment — it’s a quixotic mistake to think these alternative payment models can gain traction overnight.
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As Workforce Shortages Intensify, CMS’ Value-based Care Ambitions Hang in the Balance
Absent the ability to bolster their ranks with more clinicians, what rural health centers need first and foremost to shift to value are technologies that amplify their clinical capacity without further burdening and burning out their core staff.
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Kaiser Permanente to Acquire Geisinger, Along with 5-6 More Health Systems in the Near Future
Kaiser Permanente announced that it expects to acquire Pennsylvania-based Geisinger Health. Kaiser’s move is part of a larger plan — Geisinger will be the first health system to join Risant Health, a new company Kaiser launched to operate nonprofit health systems under value-based care models. Kaiser said it expects to invest $5 billion in Risant and fold five or six health systems into the company over the next five years.
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Leverage Analytics and Technologies to Improve Quality of Care
MedCity News connected with Global Health Leader at EY, Aloha McBride, to share details on the company’s upcoming survey on what consumers are looking for in value-based care.
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VBC Won’t Save Safety Net Hospitals, Experts Say
A shift from fee-for-service payment models to value-based models is not an effective way to address the severe financial pressures that safety net hospitals are facing, experts argued at the HIMSS conference in Chicago. One called for a paradigmatic shift “away from cost savings and toward understanding where investments are needed.”
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Payer’s Place: Dr. Anil Singh
Dr. Anil Singh shares his insights into the strategies employed by the organization to identify the most effective digital solutions for their members.
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Discover the Next-Gen Platform for Integrated Collaborative Care
Beyond EHRs and digital front doors, reducing the gaps in patient care journeys.
