Tag: Post-Acute Care
WellSky survey: Majority of physicians don’t have established post-acute relationships
December 6, 2023HME News Staff
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. – Seventy-five percent of physician leaders do not have established partnerships with post-acute care providers, according to a new survey from WellSky. For those who do, communication between the clinicians and other caregivers takes place primarily over the phone, leading to a lack of visibility into their patient care. “Ambulatory care providers need a technology-driven approach to efficiently and effectively manage patients and influence their care transitions,”...
WellSky buys Corridor
October 17, 2023HME News Staff
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. – WellSky has acquired Corridor, an end-to-end, tech-enabled services platform designed for the post-acute care industry, from HealthEdge Investment Partners, a private equity firm. By adding Corridor to its portfolio, WellSky will strengthen its medical coding and revenue cycle management (RCM) offerings for home health and allow it to move into the skilled nursing facility market. “Providers today must continually demonstrate higher quality performance and compliance,...
RestorixHealth expands team
June 5, 2023HME News Staff
METAIRIE, La. – RestorixHealth is expanding its Post-Acute Clinical Services Team to offer customized support solutions, in addition to the product support and cost savings programs. The expansion will include many new jobs involving sales, service, marketing, technology, training and education, the company says. “Today is a historic day for RestorixHealth,” said Jeff Bowman, division president, Post-Acute. “These jobs will allow us to better serve our current customers and...
WellSky’s CarePort sees ‘record growth’
June 15, 2022HME News Staff
BOSTON – Nearly 2,500 post-acute providers, including HME providers, and 13,000 home- and community-based services organizations joined the CarePort network in 2021, signifying record growth within the platform’s post-acute, home and community client base, the company says.
CarePort, a care coordination software company powered by WellSky, also launched CarePort Community, a new referral and care coordination platform for post-acute, home- and community-based providers, that...
Walgreens Boots Alliance to acquire majority stake in CareCentrix
October 14, 2021HME News Staff
HARTFORD, Conn. – Walgreens Boots Alliance is acquiring a majority share of CareCentrix, investing $330 million for a 55% stake.
The deal will boost Walgreens capabilities in post-acute and home care, in support of its launch of Walgreens Health, a customer-centric, technology-enabled care model powered by a nationally scaled, locally delivered health care platform.
“COVID-19 has made it clear that providing care in the home and community is the future of not only post-acute care,...
onehome ‘ahead of the game’ with value-based care
May 28, 2021Theresa Flaherty, Managing Editor
MIRAMAR, Fla. – The latest Medicare Advantage company to be drawn to onehome’s model of both managing benefits and providing care to patients: Devoted Health.
onehome partnered with Devoted Health in April to expand care to that plan’s members in Arizona, Ohio and San Antonio, Texas.
“Managed care plans are our target audience and we understand what they are about,” said CEO Ramon Falero. “As far as the future, based on language from CMS about bundled...
MHA kicks off Summit with Scott Gottlieb
March 23, 2021HME News Staff
FLORHAM PARK, N.J. – Managed Health Care Associates, which owns the MED Group, has secured Dr. Scott Gottlieb, a former commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, to deliver the keynote address at its 2021 MHA Business Summit. “We’re honored to host Dr. Gottlieb and excited to hear his update on the global COVID-19 pandemic, what we can expect in 2021 and what role the post-acute care pharmacy will play in helping eradicate COVID-19,” said Diane Koontz, MHA president....
Kno2 rides 'tail winds' of post-acute care
March 1, 2021Liz Beaulieu, Editor
Kno2 announced partnerships with Stratice Healthcare and DMEhub recently, allowing the HME providers who use those two platforms to access, effectively, any electronic health record system.
Here’s what Therasa Bell, co-founder, president and CTO of Kno2, had to say about how to “do interoperability right,” and how the company made a bet several years ago that information exchange needed to happen beyond the walls of hospitals and physician offices.
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WellSky extends REACH with collaboration
November 20, 2019HME News Staff
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. - WellSky has partnered with three leading post-acute providers, USA Healthcare, Concierge Home Care and Healthy Living Network, to offer WellSky REACH. The initiative seeks to help post-acute and personal care providers collaborate with payers and risk-bearing health systems using predictive analytics. WellSky REACH (Risk-Enabled, Analytical, and Coordinated Healthcare) is a comprehensive suite of EHR-agnostic capabilities that leverages WellSky's payer expertise and advanced...
Ascension forms post-acute care division
June 21, 2019HME News Staff
ST. LOUIS - Ascension has formed a new Post-Acute Services Division and named Daniel “Danny” Stricker as its president, according to McKnight's Senior Living. Stricker is COO of subsidiary Ascension Living. Effective July 1, he will provide strategic and operational leadership to the new division, which will include Ascension Living's post-acute services—independent living, assisted living, memory care, skilled nursing, short-term rehab—as well as home health, hospice, palliative...