
Lantern Teams Up with Pelago to Expand Access to Substance Use Disorder Treatment
Through its partnership with Pelago, Lantern’s clients can access Pelago’s substance use disorder treatment through Lantern’s specialty care platform.
Through its partnership with Pelago, Lantern’s clients can access Pelago’s substance use disorder treatment through Lantern’s specialty care platform.
While expanding access to VBC in primary care is indeed an important goal, we must keep in mind that the vast majority of healthcare expenses are in specialty care areas like oncology, where costs continue to rise without improved patient outcomes.
This new approach is helping payors and providers unlock new value from their VBC initiatives while offering more effective and condition-specific treatment for patients.
As poor experiences and high costs drive many to walk away from their doctors, the right additional support can keep patients from switching providers. Here are three suggestions to consider that could make a difference for patient experience while improving access to care and reducing costs.
Virtual first models can address a brutal trifecta of challenges - access, cost, and quality.
We’re in for a bumpy ride near term, but value-based specialty care (VBSC) is coming and – if done right – has the potential to transform how we care for millions of patients.
Zelis CEO Amanda Eisel shares her perspective on how the company is solving the problems of a fragmented health financial system to benefit all.
Included Health's new specialty care clinic, which will become available in 2025, is starting by offering three centers: the Cancer Center, the Center for Women’s Health and the Center for Metabolic Health.
As the healthcare evolves toward service-based models, providers increasingly look to balance service delivery demands while keeping their core medical values without yielding to an overburdened system's pressures.
There is a huge opportunity for specialties to play a critical role in complementing primary care and tertiary care by transforming into a sustainable model that is preventive, boundaryless, and one that empowers patients and caregivers.
Upperline Health, a provider network focused on value-based specialty care, recently raised $58 million. The startup identifies patients who are seeing specialists four or more times a year and provides them with an interdisciplinary care team that treats them at a clinic, in their home or via phone.
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.
MedCity News connected with Integra Connect's COO, Cory Wiegert at ViVE 2023 to discuss how their new platform will go beyond the "one size fits all" approach to data curation.
Tim Barry, CEO of VillageMD, is encouraged by the shift he's seeing to value-based care, but is worried that new technologies could create a fragmented system. He made these comments after the value-based company announced Thursday that it completed its $8.9 billion acquisition of Summit Health-City MD.
The intentional use of specialty care coordination inside value-based, accountable primary care structures are necessary tools in the march to reward value and positive health outcomes over the volume of services rendered.
How can specialty practices most effectively engage undertreated and underserved patients while navigating rising rates of workforce shortages, burnout and the financial pressures that come with operating a practice during a pandemic?
The ViVE conference last week was a refreshing collection of discussions exploring how much progress has been made in healthcare transformation and the enormous amount of work yet to be done.