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There was a time when insurers were accused (often rightly) of using wellness to lure healthier beneficiaries into MA. Now, the issue is whether wellness can help health plans manage medical spending. "To the degree they do minimize medical spending, the beneficiaries will presumptively be better off healthwise," says Joseph Newhouse of Harvard.
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Aseguradoras , Medicare Part C , Estados UnidosRESUMEN
CMS and insurers talked about what needed to be done to better address the social determinants of health (SDOH) for beneficiaries. That led to a policy, implemented last year by CMS, that allows for the provision of daily maintenance care using nonskilled in-home providers, the kind of services usually given in assisted-living facilities.
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Medicare , Determinantes Sociales de la Salud , Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S. , Estados UnidosRESUMEN
"The private sector will play an important role in the 10-year time frame. Patients are downloading their data from patient portals and sharing their information between their specialists. Provider groups and clinical societies will become more adept at using data to inform care pathways."
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Sector Privado , Industria FarmacéuticaRESUMEN
Robin Caruso, the chief togetherness officer at CareMore, knows that acute loneliness results in poor outcomes, increasing the risk of someone's mortality by 45%. Her team engages in "organic" conversations with CareMore's elderly beneficiaries to make them more engaged in their care, more socially connected, and more likely to exercise.
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Soledad , Aislamiento Social , Apoyo Social , Femenino , Humanos , Masculino , Medicaid , Medicare Part C , Innovación Organizacional , Factores de Riesgo , Estados Unidos , Comunicación por VideoconferenciaRESUMEN
Harvard Pilgrim Health Plan offers some beneficiaries an app that allows them to stay in contact with the health plan's nurse practitioners. It seems tailored-made for patients with chronic conditions, but it can be applied to almost everything a person might need to go to the hospital for.
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Continuidad de la Atención al Paciente , Aplicaciones Móviles , Humanos , New England , Innovación OrganizacionalRESUMEN
Deaths of women from opioid addiction spiked 400%, according to CDC data. Alison Colbert of Duquesne University argues for a gender-specific approach.
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Trastornos Relacionados con Opioides/mortalidad , Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. , Femenino , Humanos , Mortalidad/tendencias , Trastornos Relacionados con Opioides/rehabilitación , Estados Unidos/epidemiologíaRESUMEN
The CMO of Molina Healthcare of Utah grew up, let's say, not rich. He says that and a varied background-including a stint in the Air Force-helps him deal with changing policies involving a challenging population.
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Personal Administrativo , Programas Controlados de Atención en Salud , Medicaid , Historia del Siglo XX , Historia del Siglo XXI , Humanos , Masculino , Estados UnidosRESUMEN
The 40-year-old vice president of regional markets for eastern Massachusetts wants enrollees and, especially, employers to know that there will continue to be a lot of public policy change as the ACA evolves. His course? Keep strengthening ties with providers.
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Sistemas Prepagos de Salud/organización & administración , Administración Financiera , Humanos , Massachusetts , Modelos Organizacionales , Estudios de Casos Organizacionales , Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act , Prorrateo de Riesgo FinancieroRESUMEN
The 37-year-old has a title: executive vice president of Optum. But she wears many hats, including running a division that sells affordable hearing aids.
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Emprendimiento , Aseguradoras , Control de Costos , Humanos , Objetivos Organizacionales , Estados UnidosRESUMEN
Death rates from HIV/AIDS plummeted in the United States from 41,699 in 1995 to 6,456 in 2015. Today, people newly diagnosed with HIV who take their medicine can survive for decades, not just months or years. It's one of medicine's great achievements.
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Infecciones por VIH/mortalidad , VIH , Infecciones por VIH/terapia , Infecciones por VIH/transmisión , Humanos , Medicina , Estados UnidosRESUMEN
Not that plans won't be taking a close look at some innovative approaches such as addiction recovery medical homes. One model includes bundled payments and performance bonuses, nationally recognized quality metrics, and the placement of treatment and recovery providers close to where patients with substance use disorder live.
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Política de Salud , Aseguradoras , Legislación de Medicamentos , Trastornos Relacionados con Opioides/epidemiología , Analgésicos Opioides , Humanos , Estados UnidosRESUMEN
The insurer's general manager of behavioral and EAP services wants to make mental health care more mainstream. Only 17% of American adults function with optimal mental health. "We talk about it as if it's them over there, but 83% of us have a need."
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Aseguradoras , Programas Controlados de Atención en Salud/organización & administración , Servicios de Salud Mental/organización & administración , Humanos , Estados UnidosRESUMEN
For instance, say something a patient needs is not covered by Medicaid or an ACA plan. Blanco helps members find what they need by working with Molina's Community Connectors (community health workers) who help connect members to local community and not-for-profit organizations.
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Programas Controlados de Atención en Salud/organización & administración , Medicaid/economía , Ejecutivos Médicos , Relaciones Comunidad-Institución , Florida , Humanos , Organizaciones sin Fines de Lucro , Estados UnidosRESUMEN
The 35-year-old medical director of the plan's office of medical policy and technology assessment has broad interests, but he's particularly keen on wellness because it "ties into the evidentiary component of my position-evaluating the scientific literature to support evidence-based medicine." His take: Rely less on active patient participation.
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Promoción de la Salud , Informática Médica , Medicina Basada en la Evidencia , Historia del Siglo XX , Historia del Siglo XXI , Humanos , Medicina Preventiva , Estados UnidosRESUMEN
A lot hinges on this question: Do you feel comfortable getting a diagnosis or being treated for a condition by someone on a screen?
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Aceptación de la Atención de Salud , Telemedicina , Estados UnidosRESUMEN
But most insurers are taking a wait-and-see attitude even though in some clinical areas, such as diabetes, real-world evidence (RWE) has been a true game-changer. Payers have a pessimistic view that RWE can help them. It doesn't help that respected voices in health care agree.