Investing in care delivery. by RaeAnn Grossman
To date in 2019, we have seen a great deal of health plans investing further into care delivery. Some many be a surprised to you, as we researched this blog, we found new ones that we missed in the press releases.
UnitedHealth Group (and/ or OptumCare) bought:
- PeopleHealth in LA
- DaVita Medical Group in CA, CO, FL, NM and WA
- Polyclinic in WA (Everest Clinic)
Humana partners with:
- Iora Health
- ChenMed in PA
- Oak Street in IL
- Doctors on Demand
CIGNA partners with:
- CareMore Health in AZ
- MD Live
Blue Cross Blue Shields partner with:
- Aledad in CA
- Caremore, Cityblock Health and Iora Health in NC
- Vera Whole Health in MO
- Oak Street in RI
- Cityblock Health in NY
This means the health plans may be starting to understand the provider workflows better, administrative burden, and impact to care that referrals, authorizations, non- linear quality programs, and data aggregation strategy have on the providers’ routes. It will be interesting to see in care gets more efficient or workflows become simplified.