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15 Jul Health Payers Ramping Up COVID-19 Testing

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With the COVID-19 pandemic increasing in many regions around the United States, health payers continue to ramp up new and more convenient ways for testing their members. Recently, Humana announced a pilot home-testing program that enables at-home COVID-19 test collection for members – making Humana the first insurer to offer at-home test-collection kits. The payer also launched a collaboration with Walmart and Quest Diagnostics to offer drive-thru testing at hundreds of Walmart Neighborhood Market drive-thru pharmacy locations...

13 Jul Health Data News Roundup: Payers Improving Quality Measures; New COVID-19 Dataset Codes; and Humana Ramps Up Testing

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Welcome to the Health Data Weekly News Roundup from IMAT Solutions. As the power of data continues to grow in the healthcare arena, today’s care organizations need to be on the forefront of all news and trends to help ensure that their data analytics efforts deliver accountable and informed care. Each week, we will provide you with the actionable news you need to meet these goals. 5 Ways Payers Can Improve Quality Measures for Chronic Members Nearly...

08 Jul AHIP: Payers Are Addressing Socioeconomic Needs During COVID-19 and Beyond

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As new challenges continue to emerge around the COVID-19 pandemic, health payers are looking for new ways to address Social Determinants of Health (SDOH), according to America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP). “With Americans isolated in their homes and over 40 million recently unemployed, the need to address food insecurity, housing instability, and social isolation is greater than ever,” stated AHIP in this new innovation brief. The innovation brief discusses how health insurance providers, local healthcare and social...

06 Jul Health Data News Roundup: Value-Based Contracting and COVID-19; EHR Adoption and HITECH; and AI for Payers

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Welcome to the Health Data Weekly News Roundup from IMAT Solutions. As the power of data continues to grow in the healthcare arena, today’s care organizations need to be on the forefront of all news and trends to help ensure that their data analytics efforts deliver accountable and informed care. Each week, we will provide you with the actionable news you need to meet these goals. Payers Continue to Expand Value-Based Contracting Despite COVID-19 Blue Cross and...

01 Jul Payers: How to Scale SDOH Across Lines of Business and Demographics

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Over the past several years, health payers have been launching new Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) strategies to best address population health and drive down long-term costs. In addition to bridging the gap between payers and providers, there have been some new efforts to further scale SDOH efforts, which is the foundation of the Humana Bold Gold effort. In 2015, Humana announced its Bold Goal, a population health strategy to improve the health of the communities the...

29 Jun Health Data News Roundup: Payers and SDOH Goals; Improving Member Engagement; and Better EHR Usability

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Welcome to the Health Data Weekly News Roundup from IMAT Solutions. As the power of data continues to grow in the healthcare arena, today’s care organizations need to be on the forefront of all news and trends to help ensure that their data analytics efforts deliver accountable and informed care. Each week, we will provide you with the actionable news you need to meet these goals. How Payers Scale Social Determinants of Health Goals Humana’s Bold Goal...

24 Jun Health Payers Ramp Up Telehealth Strategies

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In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth has undoubtedly become the top 2020 health IT story. For providers, it offers a path to expand care coverage for both patients impacted by the pandemic, as well as for those who need routine care. For payers, telehealth actually rose 50 times in usage over the past several months. Though challenges with determining coverage for new and different sites of care and technologies, as well as state and...

22 Jun Health Data News Roundup: Payers and Telehealth Expansion; BCBRI and Population Health; and NEHII and SDOH

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Welcome to the Health Data Weekly News Roundup from IMAT Solutions. As the power of data continues to grow in the healthcare arena, today’s care organizations need to be on the forefront of all news and trends to help ensure that their data analytics efforts deliver accountable and informed care. Each week, we will provide you with the actionable news you need to meet these goals. COVID-19 Spotlights 3 Payer Telehealth Expansion Challenges Payer telehealth strategies face...

17 Jun Bridging the Social Determinants of Health Gap Between Payers and Providers

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One of the challenges of embracing Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) is that patients don’t often like to disclose information about their housing, access to healthy foods, or transportation challenges. Conversely, for providers, it is often difficult to ask patients SDOH-related questions, which are important to providing the best quality of care possible. To address this, the Community Health Plan of Washington is embracing both training providers and population health management tools to bridge the SDOH gap...

15 Jun Health Data News Roundup: Payers, SDOH and Population-Based Data; HHS COVID-19 Data Reporting; and Payer Spending

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Welcome to the Health Data Weekly News Roundup from IMAT Solutions. As the power of data continues to grow in the healthcare arena, today’s care organizations need to be on the forefront of all news and trends to help ensure that their data analytics efforts deliver accountable and informed care. Each week, we will provide you with the actionable news you need to meet these goals. Addressing Social Determinants of Health Requires Population-Based Data Community Health Plan...