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Value-based care startup Vytalize Health rakes in $53M
Vytalize Health raked in $53 million in funding led by Enhanced Healthcare Partners, the company tells Axios exclusively. Why it matters: The evolution towards value-based health care is slow but inevitable. Vytalize helps Medicare-focused primary care groups succeed under this model of reimbursement. Most value-based care startups in primary care focus on larger entities with …
Technology Aids Hospices With Value-Based Advance Care Planning Compliance
Hospices have contended with two agents of industry-wide change at the start of 2021: access to value-based payment models and a global pandemic. As hospices sought ways to balance the human touch with technology, they’ve refocused efforts around advance care planning, a key element of those value-based models. Those services are one more area in …
Value-Based Health Care Must Value Black Lives
Value-based health care emerged more than two decades ago to improve quality while containing costs. However, its impact on racial health disparities has been limited. Black Americans in particular are more likely than White Americans to suffer from cardiovascular disease, maternal mortality, and poor cancer outcomes. Moreover, Black patients are more likely than White patients …
Mark Crow: Value-based care can address social determinants of health
Editor’s note: This commentary is by Mark Crow, of Shelburne, who is a director of the Vermont Business Roundtable and the president of Tenth Crow Creative, a strategic creative agency that works with companies focusing on improving the social determinants of health within their communities. We are all struggling through this pandemic but, unfortunately, some …
Are Value-Based, Whole-Person Healthcare Reforms Working?
Source: Obama signing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act at the White House/Wikimedia Commons Signed by Barack Obama in March 2010, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) tasked the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) with improving the Medicare and Medicaid health …
Q&A:What is value-based health care?
We can improve outcomes and lower costs by getting patients the right care, at the right time, in the right place. That approach to health care requires a coordinated team effort: Doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other providers must be able to work in harmony, and patients must feel empowered to participate actively in their care. …
