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COVID-19 Didn’t Stop Health Care Disruptors from Moving Forward

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic turbulence last year, some of America’s largest companies were forced to reexamine their strategies to disrupt health care in an effort to reduce costs, increase access and forge stronger bonds with consumers. Some, like Amazon, CVS Health, Walgreens Boots Alliance and Walmart, added to the number of their early brick-and-mortar primary care locations to serve their customers or employees.

Let’s Work Together — A Framework for Public-Private Health Care Collaboration During Crises

A report issued by the group last month, the “National Dialogue for Healthcare Innovation,” provides a framework for how hospitals and health systems, public health, government leaders and others can work together during future crises. The wide-ranging report addresses three primary areas in which the pandemic highlighted challenges: innovative care delivery approaches, improving data and evidence generation, and strengthening innovation and supply chain readiness.

Patients to Pay More Out of Pocket for Virtual Care

Some health insurance reimbursement changes that helped fuel virtual care’s rapid rise during the early months of the pandemic are being eliminated. Health insurance giants UnitedHealthcare and Anthem are revising their telehealth reimbursement rules in ways that will increase patients’ out-of-pocket costs.