HealthLeaders Media November 14, 2019
The joint venture will use telemedicine, in-home providers, and care management oversight to provide ‘all essential elements of inpatient care in the home.’
Highmark Health and Contessa are partnering to provide patients with “hospital-quality care in the comfort and convenience of their homes,” the two companies said in a joint press release.
The joint venture, Home Recovery Care LLC, will use telemedicine, in-home providers, and care management oversight that the two companies claim will provide “all essential elements of inpatient care in the home.”
The model is available now for some Highmark commercial plans in western Pennsylvania, and will be made available to all plan members and Medicare Advantage members in that region starting on January 1, 2020. The model...