Money from the grant will help improve patient data collection and analysis. By partnering with Health Care for the Homeless, UnitedHealthcare will also obtain access to data for approximately 2,000 members who are patients of the Baltimore nonprofit. Gaining access to this information will help the payer design new insurance programs for Medicaid patients and better track patients’ progress, according to the report.
“This is really innovative from my perspective because we’re able to solve a housing problem and hopefully glean some really useful data that will help us generate the next generation of products,” Mike Jones, CEO of UnitedHealthcare Community Plan of Maryland, told the Baltimore Business Journal.
UnitedHealthcare’s involvement may also create more buy-in for Health Care for the Homeless among other healthcare organizations.
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