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healthAlign is excited to announce our acquisition by The Helper Bees. Together, we will bring a wider range of solutions to our respective clients as well as a broader mix of opportunities to our in-home provider partners
Strategically, conveners give payers one go-to source instead of a slew of providers offering different services to their members, Andy Friedell, the CEO and founder of healthAlign, told Home Health Care News.
We are thrilled to announce a joint venture with The Helper Bees, the long-term care insurance leader in providing non-medical care in the home. Together we offer payers a more complete solution for solution for closing gaps-in-care in the home.
Long-Term Quality Alliance (LTQA) and ATI Advisory held the second part of a webinar series on advancing new, non-medical supplemental benefits in Medicare Advantage with support from The SCAN Foundation.
Research on the non-medical supplemental benefits offered by Medicare Advantage plans highlights healthAlign as an emerging marketplace solution that helps plans arrange a diverse network of services into the home.
“A couple health plans have contracted with healthAlign to essentially find all of the different home care providers and aggregate them in one platform to play the go-between role in terms of contracting and things like that. That’s my favorite kind of model” said Anne Tumlinson CEO, of ATI Advisory
“We’re essentially building a ‘secret decoder ring’ for healthcare, linking payers up with the diverse and fragmented universe of community-based providers. Our goal is to create an intelligent marketplace for community-based care that promotes adherence and independence at home,” said healthAlign founder and CEO, Andy Friedell.
“Investing in social determinants of health holds potential to provide ROI in the form of fewer readmissions-based penalties.”
“You get one picture of a patient when you see them in the hospital, but when you get into the home is really when you see several layers of other dynamics that are also in play,” Andy Friedell, SVP of strategic solutions for Maxim, told Home Health Care News. “A lot of time those are the nonclinical barriers that keep people from following their care plan, and that’s kind of what [this] community health program is focusing a lot of time on.”
A program that uses community health workers (CHWs) to help chronically ill patients access care following hospitalization has cut readmission rates in half and reduced hospital spending by 35 percent for high-risk patients, according to new data from the University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center (UMSJMC) and Maxim Healthcare Services.
“In May, about 10% of St Joseph’s high-risk patients were readmitted within 30 days, compared with 25% when the hospital launched the program in February 2015 in partnership with … Maxim Healthcare.”