Patina Medical Group, a major care supplier primarily based in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, is partnering with Independence Blue Cross of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to supply its major care to pick out Independence Medicare Benefit Plus members. Members who’ve Keystone 65 HMO or Private Alternative 65sm PPO plans can make the most of Patina’s program, which focuses on look after individuals 65 and older.
“Patina is completely centered on bettering the healthcare and growing older expertise of adults 65+. We have now experience within the modifications the physique goes by means of through the regular course of growing older (e.g., physique composition, imaginative and prescient, listening to, sleep, cardiac operate, fatigue, [and other maladies],” stated Jack Stoddard, CEO of Patina in an electronic mail.
He added that the Patina can present look after individuals managing a number of persistent circumstances resembling arthritis, CHF, diabetes, falls, melancholy, dementia and different wants that always emerge as individuals age.
“The necessity for care tailor-made to values is magnified for adults 65+ who typically have distinctive bodily, cognitive, or social wants. Patina addresses this by constructing a major care expertise from scratch, with clinicians who’re consultants within the growing older course of, and tuning care to the precise strengths and desires of adults 65+,” Stoddard stated.
Along with its concentrate on the aged inhabitants, Patina gives each digital and in-home care, somewhat than workplace visits, as the primary sources of look after sufferers, based on the information launch. Stoddard likens this mannequin to leveraging expertise to deliver care again to the house because it was circa 70 years in the past.
The corporate creates a custom-made care workforce for every affected person to grasp the distinctive wants of every affected person within the hope of providing preventive, not simply reactive care.
Particularly, the care workforce consists of each a well being champion and a major care doctor, with others added primarily based on particular person affected person wants and objectives, based on the corporate. For instance, the workforce might embody a nurse practitioner, behavioral well being specialist, pharmacist, geriatrician, persistent situation specialist, logistics specialist, amongst others, relying on the person wants of every affected person.
Patina envisions this care workforce because the “go to” useful resource for something a affected person wants, from scheduling appointments to arranging care from a number of suppliers to tapping into group assets, based on its press launch.
“Patina offers each affected person his or her personal multidisciplinary care workforce who take the time to get to know the affected person, construct a trusted relationship, and to create a customized care plan primarily based on the affected person’s values, objectives, context, and preferences,” Stoddard stated. “All too typically, the standard healthcare system defines sufferers by their medical issues and related remedies rendered in discrete, reactive episodes. This mannequin misses what issues most: our objectives and values in life, and our preferences in how we’d prefer to handle our well being.”
With this partnership, Independence members can make the most of Patina as their major care supplier (PCP) at no extra prices past the member’s normal cost-sharing. Additional, members who select Patina as their PCP will nonetheless have entry to the identical advantages from their Independence plan. Greater than 100,000 Medicare Benefit members may have the choice to make the most of Patina on account of the partnership.
Patina hopes its distant and in-home choices will create equitable entry to look after IBC members, whether or not they dwell in rural communities or in Philadelphia neighborhoods, based on Stoddard. Patina will go the place clinics might by no means be constructed, he added.
Subsequent steps for Patina embody increasing to extra markets all through the nation in partnership with nationwide Medicare Benefit plans. Additional, it plans to develop to the Philadelphia metro space come 2023, with providing Patina to different well being plan member, based on Stoddard.
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