About 8% of Black adults and 7% of Hispanic adults skipped care because of transportation challenges in the last year, compared to 4% of White adults and 2% of Asian adults, according to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. In addition, 14% of adults with low family incomes passed on care.
Historically having worked with Medicaid and Medicare Advantage populations, Uber Health is now expanding its services to self-insured employers. The company made the announcement at the HLTH conference in Las Vegas.
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
Rideshare app Lyft is partnering with corporations and healthcare organizations to create an initiative that will help connect members of underserved communities to vaccination sites once the Covid-19 vaccine becomes widely available.
Radically improving health outcomes for vulnerable populations requires a multifaceted proactive, community-wide approach focused on better understanding social determinants of health and simultaneously addressing social and health inequalities.
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 so-called Destination: Health network will launch later this year with Aetna Medicaid members in Louisville, Kentucky and Aetna dual-eligible special needs plan members in Tampa, Florida and Southeastern Louisiana.
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
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.
Through the startup's collaboration with the rideshare service, Grand Rounds care coordinators are able to book an Uber to arrange transport for a member to meet their healthcare needs.
A McKinsey survey of 2,010 individuals found people reporting higher inpatient or ER utilization rates were more likely to report unmet social needs like food insecurity or transportation needs.
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.
We will highlight Build My Health's revenue practice management tools, which could help physician practices add up to $250,000 to their practices.
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.
The Danville, Pennsylvania-based system plans to work with rabbittransit to help patients get to their appointments on time. Additionally, researchers from Geisinger and Regeneron Genetics Center recently found a gene variant that's associated with a reduction in the risk for chronic liver disease.
Circulation, a Boston-based startup focused on the non-emergency medical transportation space, said it has raised $10.5 million from investors such as Boston Children's Hospital, Humana and Intermountain Healthcare Innovation Fund.