This month’s Portfolio Spotlight highlights Evolent Health providing its health plan services platform and capabilities to Maryland Physicians Care, RxAnte announcing its patent issuance for Value of Future Adherence (VFA®), and Vivify Health being acquired by UnitedHealth’s Optum. Xealth ends this month’s news with a solution to consolidate and simplify digital health.
Evolent Health announced that it will provide health plan operations services and the IdentifiSM technology platform to Maryland Care, Inc. d/b/a/ Maryland Physicians Care MCO (MPC), a locally-based Managed Care Organization (MCO) that administers health care services to more than 200,000 Medicaid beneficiaries enrolled in the Maryland HealthChoice program.
RxAnte, Inc. announced the issuance of US Patent No. 10,318,897 for the development of its technology to calculate the Value of Future Adherence®(VFA®). Applied at the individual patient-level, the score calculates expected cost savings to health plans associated with members’ adherence to medication therapy.
UnitedHealth subsidiary Optum acquired Texas-based remote patient monitoring (RPM) startup Vivify Health. Through this acquisition, Optum has an opportunity to significantly reduce costs from hospital readmission rates and better manage care for patients with chronic diseases.
Xealth is working to integrate silos into electronic health records (EHRs), giving providers new tools to offer digital solutions, manage payer authorizations and track results.
