New virtual primary care platform available to Aetna clients
By
Diane Eastabrook
Aug 13, 2021
Private insurer Aetna, a division of CVS Health, is launching nationwide virtual primary care to customers. Aetna Virtual Primary Care will offer health services to customers anytime and anywhere they...
Home-based primary care demonstration project scores another win
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Diane Eastabrook
Aug 02, 2021
Home-based primary care proved to reduce healthcare costs and hospital admissions for the sixth year in a row, according to a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) demonstration project.
Home care workers to march in 20 cities on behalf of $400B care economy proposal
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Diane Eastabrook
Jul 09, 2021
Care workers, care consumers and advocates will march on 20 U.S. cities next Tuesday, demanding the White House and Congress invest in the nation’s care economy as a matter of racial and gender justice.
Home care workers press their case for higher wages before Labor Secretary Marty Walsh
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Diane Eastabrook
Jun 24, 2021
Nevada home care workers bent the ear of U.S. Labor Secretary Marty Walsh Wednesday over higher wages and benefits for care economy workers.
Pendulum for primary care is swinging back to the home, VillageMD co-founder says
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Diane Eastabrook
Jun 23, 2021
VillageMD co-founder Paul Martino predicts the U.S. healthcare system is returning to its roots whereby primary care physicians — not big hospital systems — drive patient care, along with better, more...
Home care agencies are losing a third of their business to the ‘gray market,’ new study finds
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Diane Eastabrook
Jun 22, 2021
Nearly a third of Americans who paid for care for an older adult or a dementia patient recently did not hire workers through a regulated agency, a new study from policy think tank RAND Corporation found.
Simple smart technology is ‘game-changing’ for home care, tech CEO says
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Diane Eastabrook
Jun 03, 2021
Inexpensive smart home technology can mean the difference between aging in place or aging in a senior care facility.
Retail giant Best Buy pounces on telehealth trend, offering smartphone for seniors
By
Diane Eastabrook
May 25, 2021
The retailer known for selling television sets and refrigerators is jumping headlong into telehealth.
Peer-to-Peer: It takes financial preparation to thrive in the highly competitive home care market, franchise...
By
Diane Eastabrook
May 10, 2021
Twenty-four years ago, Stephen Rymal, attorney, became Stephen Rymal, franchisee. Rymal operates Griswold Home Care in Burlington County, New Jersey.
CMS’ Primary Care First model could benefit home care providers, doctor says
By
Diane Eastabrook
Apr 09, 2021
Home care and home health care workers could play a greater role in their patients’ care if more physicians sign up for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid’s (CMS) Primary Care First (PCF) model,...