Care Coordination

Here are nine payers that broadened their businesses through recent expansions and partnerships:

As part of an effort to expand renal care coordination, tech company Clover Health is entering a value-based agreement with San Francisco, Calif.-based specialty kidney care provider Cricket Health.

A Dec. 9 CMS update showed that 4.6 million Americans so far have signed up for health insurance coverage through ACA marketplaces, with 95 percent of beneficiaries receiving some sort of tax credit.  

Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger health system was running at 110 percent capacity across its nine hospitals in Pennsylvania as of Dec. 8, officials with the health system said during a Dec. 8 news conference.

As U.S. COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations tick up, some hospitals and health systems have again postponed nonemergency procedures to free up hospital space and ensure they can adequately care for urgent healthcare needs. 

Amid a COVID-19 surge, health systems in Maine and Michigan are adjusting their surgical volumes as they grapple with a rise in hospitalizations.

Dayton, Ohio-based managed care organization CareSource announced a partnership with TrueCare, a Mississippi provider-sponsored health plan, that would allow the parties to better support Mississippi Medicaid beneficiaries. 

Oscar Health is bringing Philadelphia-based Temple Health into its provider network, the payer announced Dec. 8. 

Bright HealthCare is partnering with human resources company Mineral to offer human resource and compliance tools to employers alongside health coverage, the companies announced Dec. 8. 

About eight months after announcing an IT and revenue cycle partnership, Optum and Cooperstown, N.Y.-based Bassett Healthcare Network's relationship has blossomed to shine a light on how rural hospitals are withstanding consolidation, Forbes reported Dec. 7.