How Enabled Health Plans to Use Virtual Care to Help Seniors Age in Place Enabled Health, a hybrid care company that launched last week, aims to leverage telehealth and remote patient monitoring to reduce hospitalizations and improve chronic care management among seniors. Continue Reading By Anuja...
The company has big plans for growth. While only open to patients in Washington at the moment, the company's services will open to assisted living facility patients in Hawaii in June. The company also eventually plans to work directly with patients rather than through assi...
Japan’s ageing population and declining birth rates have left seniors and young singles alone at home, needing someone or something to talk to, according to Kataoka. The country is already bolstering its workforce with robots, with 314 machines per 100,000 workers, second only to South Korea...
For instance, in April, Walmartannouncedplans to close its 51 health centers and Walmart Health Virtual Care. The company cited the "challenging reimbursement environment and escalating operating costs" as the primary reasons for the decision. Further, earlier this year,Business Insiderreport...
The program, which the payer launched in May 2021, includes both virtual and in-person classes and activities. Seniors can also join a program that connects them with the payers’ employees and peer advocates to enjoy a phone conversation. Lastly, seniors can access technical s...
the federal level,a bill introduced in March and now before Congresswould ensure permanent coverage for audio-only telehealth services for Medicare Advantage and PACE programs, giving providers like WelbeHealth the freedom to incorporate phone calls and non-video telehealth platforms...
Ricardi noted that if health plans are allowed to incorporate telehealth providers to meet network adequacy, it could inadvertently corrode seniors' care access. PAYMENT PERMANENCY AND CROSS-STATE LICENSURE ARE CRITICAL BUT MUST BE CAREFULLY CALIBRATED ...
How Enabled Health Plans to Use Virtual Care to Help Seniors Age in Place Enabled Health, a hybrid care company that launched last week, aims to leverage telehealth and remote patient monitoring to reduce hospitalizations and improve chronic care management among seniors. Continue Reading How One...
Loneliness can be a life-or-death situation, with seniors who report feeling lonely having a 45 percent increased risk of mortality. SCAN, one of the biggest nonprofit Medicare Advantage plans, based their program on the foundation of peer interactions whether it be virtually or i...
A CMS program that provides long-term care for seniors in need of support services used telehealth to keep those connections going during the coronavirus pandemic. The success was chartedin a recent studythat could serve as a blueprint for new programs that use connected ...