Lighthouse Health Plan, a physician-led Medicaid health plan in Pensacola, Fla., will begin serving 24,000 patients Feb. 1, according to the Pensacola News Journal.
Three things to know:
1. Lighthouse CEO Christie Spencer told the publication being a provider-sponsored network offers advantages that members of other health plans — including three other national, commercial Medicaid plans serving the Florida Panhandle — don't have.
2. "One of the big resources we can give [providers and members] is from our predictive modeling. ... It takes data from lots of different sources — claims data, population demographics, food deserts — all of this data and really can predict which of our physicians' patients are the ones most likely to have an adverse effect in the next two months," Ms. Spencer told the Pensacola News Journal.
3. Lighthouse currently has contracts with Pensacola-based Baptist Health Care hospitals and Sacred Heart Health System, also in Pensacola.