Technology-enabled Transportation Puts Health Plans in the Driver’s Seat To Improve Outcomes
When members have access to reliable, technology-first NEMT solutions, they are three times more likely to show up to appointments.
When members have access to reliable, technology-first NEMT solutions, they are three times more likely to show up to appointments.
About 5.8 million Americans miss or delay their healthcare because they don’t have a ride. It’s time to turn patient transportation from an organizational burden to an asset.
A partnership between ride-ordering platform Roundtrip and software company Redox is helping Contra Costa Health Services collect data that can help to learn whether offering rides improves outcomes and lowers cost.
The health system has seen double-digit savings so far and its leaders are also hoping to figure out new ways to incorporate ridesharing.
Uber and Cerner jointly announced on Monday that Uber's app will now directly integrate into Cerner's electronic health record so that care teams will be able to schedule patients for pick-up and drop-off for their non-emergency medical appointments.
The deal builds on an collaboration with Lyft announced earlier this year which opened up the company's Care.Wallet application to the rideshare company's healthcare customers.
The San Francisco company received approval to register as a non-emergency medical transportation (NEMT) provider, following the state's decision to allow rideshare companies to qualify for the designation.
Specialty risk transfer care coordination company Carisk Partners has selected Uber Health to provide medical transportation to injured workers.
GoRide's 2019 expansion plans include Ohio and Florida, and in 2020, it intends to move into markets in California, Louisiana, North Carolina and Texas.
The Philadelphia-based startup plans to use the funding to boost its software capabilities and add employees to its sales, engineering and account management teams.
A specialty drug is a class of prescription medications used to treat complex, chronic or rare medical conditions. Although this classification was originally intended to define the treatment of rare, also termed “orphan” diseases, affecting fewer than 200,000 people in the US, more recently, specialty drugs have emerged as the cornerstone of treatment for chronic and complex diseases such as cancer, autoimmune conditions, diabetes, hepatitis C, and HIV/AIDS.
Users of Solve.Care's Care.Wallet can schedule Lyft rides to medical appointments and pharmacies and then can pay for the ride using their Care.Wallet.
The move was driven in part by a CMS decision to open reimbursement channels for Medicare Advantage plans looking to innovate with supplemental benefits that can promote health outside of the clinical care setting.
Megan Callahan, who previously held roles with Change Healthcare and McKesson, joins the rideshare company as its first vice president of healthcare.
Call9 physicians and on-site first responders can schedule Lyft rides for family members of patients who are in the nursing homes where Call9 operates.
After an initial two-month pilot in 2016 with Lyft garnered promising results, the partnership grew throughout 2017 to 7,000 rides per month, accounting for 91 percent of CareMore's curb-to-curb NEMT rides.