AndHealth Partners with PrimaryOne Health to Address Health Inequities by Offering In-House Specialty Care
2024年4月24日 - 4:15AM
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AndHealth announced today its partnership with PrimaryOne Health
to bring in-house whole-person specialty care to the communities
they serve. PrimaryOne Health supports Franklin County and Pickaway
County as the oldest and largest Community Health Center (CHC) in
central Ohio. Through this partnership, PrimaryOne Health will now
add high-quality and affordable in-house specialty care for
dermatology (including psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis),
rheumatology (including rheumatoid arthritis), and neurology
(including headache and migraine) to its services.
Since 1997, PrimaryOne Health has delivered whole-person care to
the medically underserved communities of central Ohio including
primary care, OB/GYN, dental, vision, behavioral health, and
pediatrics. By partnering with AndHealth, they have added access to
an integrated care model that provides convenient, affordable, and
high-quality specialty care alongside support for root causes and
Social Drivers of Health (SDoH), such as medically tailored meal
delivery, support for behavioral health, sleep, movement, remote
monitoring, and continuous access to providers and health coaching.
This comprehensive, whole-person approach to specialty care enables
patients to have better health outcomes and receive care directly
within their medical home.
Charleta B. Tavares, PrimaryOne Health CEO said, “I am extremely
proud that we have established this critical partnership to expand
our clinical capabilities and remove the barriers that prevent
patients from accessing specialty care. We recognize that better
health outcomes happen when you treat the whole person, including
addressing Social Drivers of Health. By layering specialty care
into our services, we can now support even more facets of our
patients’ health in an accessible, culturally appropriate, and
convenient manner.”
Addressing Health Inequities in Specialty Care
Specialty services are critically important to patients, but
budget constraints typically prevent them from being offered at
Community Health Centers. Most commonly, patients are referred
outside of the CHC where they face numerous cost and logistical
barriers such as lengthy wait lists due to specialist shortages and
specialty care deserts. Nationwide, patients can wait up to a year
to be seen by an outside specialist and roughly half of CHC
referrals are never completed at all. Collectively, these
challenges have led to a specialty care access crisis for medically
underserved people.
AndHealth partners with CHCs to solve this access crisis through
a fully integrated, in-house specialty care and pharmacy solution
that enables CHCs to treat patients in-house under their existing
affordable fee schedule, while providing convenient access to both
virtual and on-premises options for patients. The model is
economically sustainable for CHCs, and results in better outcomes,
lower costs, and new patient growth. AndHealth’s rapidly growing
network of CHC partners now spans Ohio, Indiana, and Massachusetts
and has to-date resulted in all patients initiating treatment
within 7 days.
This model also helps CHCs close care gaps by expanding their
reach in the communities they serve. In aggregate across
AndHealth’s partners, 66% of specialty care patients are new to the
CHC and had previously been lacking adequate access to care for
their chronic conditions.
Matt Scantland, Founder + CEO of AndHealth said, “We are proud
to stand alongside PrimaryOne Health to support patients with
access to high quality, affordable, and accessible specialty care.
Like them, we believe that health is a human right we must provide
to all people, and that everyone deserves access to the care they
need to be well. For more than 40 years, PrimaryOne Health has been
a leader in creating better health outcomes and advancing health
equity in our community, and we are so excited to work together to
build on this great legacy by providing whole-person specialty care
to their patients.”
About PrimaryOne Health
In operation since 1997, PrimaryOne Health offers comprehensive
primary care, OB-GYN, pediatric, vision, dental, behavioral health,
nutrition, pharmacy, physical therapy, and specialty care services
to over 41,000 patients. The organization provides services to
UN/underinsured and insured residents throughout Franklin and
Pickaway Counties at thirteen (13) health center locations and four
Mobile Health Centers. It is the oldest and largest Federally
Qualified Health Center (FQHC) in Central Ohio. For more
information about PrimaryOne Health and its programs, go to
www.primaryonehealth.org. PrimaryOne Health is a proud member of
the Ohio Association of Community Health Centers (OACHC) and the
National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC).
About AndHealth
AndHealth helps Community Health Centers (CHCs) radically
improve access and outcomes for patients in specialty care and
specialty pharmacy, while becoming an even larger and more
clinically integrated part of our healthcare system. This
Whole-Person Community Care Model provides everything CHCs need to
deliver in-house specialty care and specialty pharmacies, built for
the unique needs of our medically underserved populations.
The model provides CHCs with more patients, more clinical
capabilities, alignment with health systems, and sustainable
reimbursement and funding that restores the integrity of the
patient’s medical home and their critical reimbursement model—both
having shifted away from CHCs through external specialty referrals
and contract pharmacies. In restoring this integrity, CHCs can tear
down barriers to care and stretch scarce federal resources to reach
more patients with comprehensive services that weren’t possible
before and that are desperately needed by patients.
Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, AndHealth is led by former
CoverMyMeds co-founder and CEO Matt Scantland and the team that
built Ohio’s first healthcare technology unicorn, who have
dedicated their lives to transformative innovation that improves
access for patients. AndHealth is supported by key investors
including the American Medical Association’s innovation subsidiary,
Francisco Partners, and the state of Ohio’s economic development
organization.
To learn more, visit AndHealth.com.
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