Becker's Healthcare January 5, 2022
A new startup is looking to empower community health workers and provide primary care practices with workflow software to alleviate the lack of coordination sometimes present in Medicaid programs, Forbes reported Jan. 4.
Around 70 percent of Medicaid is managed by private health insurers, which theoretically are incentivized to lower costs and treat patients’ conditions before they spiral into more expensive and serious ones. However, the dominance of the fee-for-service model can hinder this, and there is insufficient infrastructure and resources to make other cost-effective interventions, the report said.
San Francisco-based startup Waymark suggests that by implementing community health workers and workflow management software for...
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