Optum, the health services arm of UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH), has agreed to buy home health giant LHC Group (Nasdaq: LHCG) for a reported $5.4 billion. The blockbuster deal is the latest indication that the nation’s largest health care payers are driving a shift toward value-based care models that prioritize more services delivered in people’s […]
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It’s 4 p.m. on a Friday evening, and a patient at an acute care hospital needs a referral to a skilled nursing facility. Even if the hospital has a phone-book-sized list of all the different providers in the area who accept a specific managed care health plan, the reality is much narrower. “Our care management […]
With managed plans gobbling up an increasing share of Medicare enrollees, skilled nursing executives need to gain fluency in the language of insurance providers — or risk being left behind. That was the message from a recent panel discussion at the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care (NIC) Spring Investment Forum in Dallas, […]
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