Innovations Shaping the Future of Kidney Care
To improve outcomes further, healthcare providers will need to take bold action to diagnose and manage this kidney disease before it becomes chronic or fatal.
Private Equity Buys Another Piece of Baxter as Carlyle Scoops Up Kidney Care Biz for $3.8B
Baxter International is selling its kidney care business for less than it was able to fetch for its much smaller biopharma solutions segment last year. A unit within kidney care took a goodwill impairment charge, Baxter’s financial reports show.
Using Data to Help Healthcare Practices Succeed
A new report from Relatient, A Data-Driven Guide to Patient Access Succes, highlights how focusing on data accuracy and relevance can enhance the performance of healthcare practices.
How Rising Value-Based Care Tides Can (But Don’t Necessarily) Lift All Patients
As providers look to find more stability as they pivot into VBC waters, they need to be conscious of the partnerships they forge on this journey. Done correctly, the right collaborative approach can have significant positive downstream impacts for all of a practice’s patients – even the ones not currently in a VBC plan.
Signify Health Unveils Chronic Kidney Disease Evaluation
Home care company Signify Health announced Tuesday that it added an in-home kidney health evaluation to its platform. Based on the results of the evaluation, the company can refer patients to their primary care physician or a specialist if they’re in need of further treatment.
Prominence Health Plan Taps Strive Health for Kidney Care
Prominence Health Medicare Advantage enrollees will have 24/7 access to Strive Health’s specialized care team through a new partnership. Strive Health is also teaming up with Sierra Nevada Specialty Care, a local nephrology clinic in Nevada.
Strive Health Rakes In $166M for Value-based Kidney Care
Strive Health's $166 million funding round was led by NEA and included participation from CVS Health Ventures, CapitalG, Echo Health Ventures, Town Hall Ventures, Ascension Ventures and Redpoint. In total, the company has raised more than $400 million.
Improving the Healthcare Financial Experience to Help Care Flow
Zelis CEO Amanda Eisel shares her perspective on how the company is solving the problems of a fragmented health financial system to benefit all.
Growing Nephrology Nursing Workforce Crisis Demands Policy Attention
It is critical for policymakers to work with nephology RNs to increase federal resources that will enable us to address burnout, decrease turnover rates, and build and support a stronger healthcare workforce nationwide.
Humana, Monogram’s value-based arrangement aims to improve kidney care
The value-based partnership is for Humana Medicare Advantage HMO and PPO plan members with chronic kidney disease, who are living in Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. These members can access Monogram’s specialized care resources, such as in-home primary and specialty care visits, medication management, dialysis and social services.
Executives at new InterWell Health, formed by 3-way merger, want to turn kidney care on its head
The new organization combining InterWell, Fresenius Health Partners and Cricket Health is valued at $2.4 billion with a total addressable market of $170 billion, more than $6 billion of medical costs under management, and over 100,000 covered lives, according to the combined company.
How to ensure Medicare’s kidney care contracting model succeeds — and transform treatment
Medicare's Comprehensive Kidney Care Contracting model spotlights the importance of proactive, coordinated kidney care. It’s critical for nephrology practices to start incorporating this patient-centric approach and consider more than just immediate kidney concerns.
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New unicorn on the block: Somatus hauls in $325M+ to grow its value-based kidney care model
The funding round was led by Wellington Management. The company sees its approach as a break from the industry's "disproportionate" focus on dialysis, which is used to treat people with kidney failure.
Regence, Strive Health partnership aims to upgrade kidney care, cut spiraling costs
Regence is partnering with Strive Health to deliver comprehensive kidney care to 16,000 Regence Medicare Advantage and commercially insured plan members in several Western states.
President Trump aims to upend existing kidney care models through executive order
The executive order is focused on increasing the supply of kidneys available for transplants, improving prevention and treatment of chronic kidney disease and pushing the majority of dialysis patients to get their treatment through less-costly and more convenient home care.