As Fresenius Health Partners, Cricket Health, and Interwell Health merge to curb kidney care costs, we detail how interoperability will be a physician barrier.

What’s next: Biofourmis is eyeing the value-based care (VBC) market, and we predict it will strike an M&A deal with a major payer to get there. Value-based reimbursements have been slowly increasing since 2015, per The Healthcare Association of New York State’s analysis of national data from Health Care Payment Learning & Action.

The $300 billion primary care market is being disrupted by nontraditional players. This report examines how the primary care landscape has changed, who these disruptors are, and why their business models are shaking up the status quo.

On today's episode, we discuss who is shaking up primary care, how it is being disrupted, why now, and how technology is playing a heightened role in how primary care is delivered. Tune in to the discussion with eMarketer digital health analyst at Insider Intelligence Rajiv Leventhal.

The Biden administration is calling to improve social services infrastructure to move the needle toward more equitable, value-based care. Most recently, the HHS announced a new Equity Action Plan to advance health equity. The plan will hold payers accountable for providing social services and driving health equity forward.

Value-based care (VBC). Advocate Aurora has been a champion of VBC ever since it joined Medicare’s Shared Savings Program back in 2012. It has been one of few health systems in federal ACO programs that generate savings for Medicare (based on ability to cut costs and improve quality).

The new JV will shell out up to $1.2 billion to open 100 value-based primary care clinics by 2025. This expands on Humana-WCAS’s existing JV that invested around $800 million to open 67 clinics by early 2023. WCAS will have a majority ownership, and Humana will hold a minority stake. The end goal is for the new clinics to reach profitability by 2025.

Investors and corporations are pouring billions of dollars into digital health companies with the goal of using solutions like telehealth, remote patient monitoring tools, and retail health clinics to reach consumers and deliver the care they need.

Christiana Care Health System is joining forces with Highmark Health to launch a tech-driven VBC-focused JV—giving a glimpse into where healthcare is headed

Consumers care about companies’ values, but they have varying expectations of how brands reflect these values. To navigate the polarized political and social landscape, companies need to begin with a clear understanding of their brand values, communicate with authenticity, and strike a balance between engagement, action, and restraint.

Values are important, but just one of many drivers. Consumer behavior is also influenced by factors such as price, convenience, and availability of products.

Over the past five years, neobanks have advanced on two fronts: user growth and richness of mobile functionality. But they’re still chasing profitability, launching new financial services offerings and reserving some of their most innovative features for paying customers. This second annual study stacks up the top four UK neobanks against one another, scoring their mobile app capabilities based on consumer demand for 48 emerging features.

The news: California-based Medicaid-provider enablement company Waymark emerged from stealth mode with a $45 million Series A funding round. It plans to scale its startup that provides primary care practices with trained community health workers and workflow management software—both of which should move the needle on value-based care for Medicaid patients, per Forbes.

Digital health companies like Sharecare are offering health systems all-in-one healthcare models that span value-based care, telehealth, digital therapeutics, and AI-powered analytics that connect all of the aforementioned.

Established stakeholders will need to invest even more in SDOH collaborations, particularly as new-age primary care disruptors emerge with business models tailored around value-based care and addressing social needs. The Medicare-focused Oak Street Health offers patients social activities and physical classes in community rooms to keep them from being inactive and isolated.

This third annual study ranks the 10 largest UK banks and building societies by assets according to their mobile banking capabilities and how highly consumers value their offerings. We present detailed benchmarking data on the availability of 41 mobile features, selected based on their propensity to set financial institutions apart.

New-age primary care startups are catering to today’s consumer—who wants their entire healthcare experience to be hyper-convenient and personalized—and to burned-out physicians facing unprecedented levels of pressure from the pandemic.

With up-to-date health data on hand, NYCIG’s provider customers bolstered their care coordination efforts, lowered readmission rates, and increased reimbursement rates under a value-based care (VBC) model, according to Don Woodlock, then vice president of HealthShare at InterSystems, in an April 2019 interview with Healthcare IT News.