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HealthPartners Exec: The 5 Rules To Scale Value-Based Care in the Commercial Market

Marissa Plescia — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 21:02:10 +0000

The commercial market has struggled to adopt value-based care, but HealthPartners has had some success, according to Mark Hansberry, senior vice president and chief marketing officer of the company. During a conference, he shared five rules for scaling value-based care, including creating trust and providing real-time data.

The Healthcare System Isn’t a System, Health Exec Says

Marissa Plescia — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 22:28:10 +0000

Patients are struggling to find the right care, and that’s because the healthcare system is fragmented, according to Andrea Walsh, president and CEO of HealthPartners, an integrated healthcare provider and insurance company. Walsh made these comments Wednesday at the HIMSS 2023 conference in Chicago.

HealthPartners adds same-day prescription delivery to telehealth platform

Elise Reuter — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 20:39:38 +0000

The nonprofit health system, which operates a telehealth platform in 13 states, struck a partnership with Capsule to offer same-day prescription delivery.

Cancer benefits startup Oncology Analytics nabs $21M Series B

Kevin Truong — Tue, 06 Nov 2018 00:07:12 +0000

The financing news comes on the heels of the company moving its headquarters to Atlanta from Plantation, Florida as a way to accommodate its rapid growth and tap into the technical and clinical talent in the region.

HealthPartners inks deal with Welltok to add personalized care tools for members

Nancy Crotti — Thu, 13 Apr 2017 20:37:22 +0000

The deal will give Welltok access to the 1.5 million people insured by HealthPartners, which operates in Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, and Wisconsin.

Iowa + Nebraska co-op brings more competition to insurance market with few options

Scott Wooldridge — Sat, 07 Dec 2013 12:20:44 +0000

CoOportunity Health, a nonprofit health insurance cooperative based in Des Moines, Iowa, has had a […]

HealthPartners opens temporary retail store to provide insurance for seniors, individual buyers

Arundhati Parmar — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 20:32:53 +0000

In a growing trend of retail strategies being employed in healthcare, HealthPartners, a Minnesota nonprofit […]

Minnesota healthcare provider reduces preventable hospital visits by 65%

Arundhati Parmar — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 12:04:40 +0000

Unnecessary hospital admissions are a huge drain on the nation’s healthcare system with one study […]

Minnesota health provider creates wellness Web portal for businesses

Arundhati Parmar — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 20:12:56 +0000

A Minnesota nonprofit health provider and insurer is launching a Web portal for businesses who […]

Minnesota healthcare provider partnership to target childhood obesity

Arundhati Parmar — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 18:27:46 +0000

Two Minnesota health providers are teaming up to fight childhood obesity and provide improved patient […]

Medica ad campaign shows attitude, other health insurers could follow

Chris Newmarker — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 18:53:42 +0000

Medica, one of the largest healthcare insurers operating in Minnesota, is showing some attitude with a new marketing campaign in the Twin Cities. Billboards, bus stop and skyway signs show a lesbian couple holding hands, an ear with a huge stud earring, a baby holding a toy block, and a woman with a little girl lying on a blanket. The message is that Medica has “plans that fit your life.”

Are insurers becoming a pain in the neck for spine surgery device makers?

Dan Haugen — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 17:19:13 +0000

Are spinal fusion procedures on the way out? Health plans and a growing number of doctors think too many patients are getting lumbar fusions without first exhausting less expensive non-surgical options such as exercise, physical therapy and epidural steroid injections.

Healthcare reform: The more I know, the less I understand

Thomas Lee — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 21:29:35 +0000

The healthcare reform law is indisputably an emotionally charged, complicated piece of legislation that can thwart even the best intellects and intentions.

Just take LifeScience Alley’s seminar on how the law will impact Minnesota’s healthcare industry. By my last count, I witnessed an unfortunate analogy, two Freudian slips, and an ill conceived attempt at humor…I think.

HealthPartners CEO: Nurses’ demand for patient ratios misguided

Thomas Lee — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 18:55:37 +0000

Count HealthPartners CEO Mary Brainerd as another healthcare official who neither buys the logic behind […]

Night Read (Minnesota): Mayo Clinic partners with GE, Intel on chronic diseases study

Thomas Lee — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 02:11:47 +0000

Patients will measure their vital signs such as blood pressure, pulse and weight, and respond to questions related to their diseases on a daily basis. A clinical care team will review the data, and will be able to use videoconferencing to further evaluate the patients.

Minnesota legislative season opens: Saving health care insurance for poor, drug companies on the hot seat

Thomas Lee — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 18:29:36 +0000

Drug companies face bills that require disclosure of industry payments to doctors and funding for medication waste disposal.

HealthPartners paid out a lot less incentive cash to docs in 2009

Thomas Lee — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 01:44:54 +0000

Judging from HealthPartners’ annual pay-for-performance figures, Americans seem to have received considerably less quality care in 2009. While the company’s overall pool of incentive pay rose nearly 19 percent to $24.9 million, its Partners in Excellence program, performance bonuses given to primary care and specialty groups, doled out 45 percent less money this year than 2008, when it paid out $670,000.