Current Health Joins Moving Health Home Coalition; FirstLight Partners with Dina

Current Health joins Moving Health Home

Boston-based Current Health, a company that offers a remote care management platform to help health care providers conduct home-based care, has joined the Moving Health Home (MHH) coalition.

MHH was created in March to influence lawmakers and advocate for legislation favorable to all sorts of home-based care. Its member organizations are from a diverse set of home-based care backgrounds. They include Amazon Care (Nasdaq: AMZN), Intermountain Healthcare, Amwell (NYSE: AMWL), Home Instead Senior Care and more.

“We must learn from the lessons of COVID-19 to shape the future of health care,” Krista Drobac, the founder of MHH, said in a statement. “The pandemic taught us that care in the home is not only possible, but extremely valuable when it comes to delivering more accessible, holistic and preventive care. Current Health’s first-hand experience enabling care in the home will be beneficial as we design and champion a new paradigm for care delivery.”

Based in Washington, D.C, MHH now has 26 member organizations, according to a coalition spokesperson.

Other companies that are a part of the coalition include Landmark Health, Signify Health (NYSE: SGFY), DispatchHealth and Elara Caring.

On its end, Current Health has generated significant momentum over the last year, especially as hospitals attempt to provide hospital-level care in the home through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) “Acute Hospital Care at Home” waiver.

Most recently, the company was selected by UMass Memorial Health to help spearhead its new hospital-at-home program.

FirstLight Home Care joins Dina’s Network

FirstLight Home Care has joined Dina’s digital home care coordination network.

The Cincinnati-based home care provider, which has more than 200 locations across the country, is partnering with Dina in order to enhance coordination with its hospital and health plan partners.

On Dina’s end, its clients include home health care and non-medical home care providers. Its AI-powered care-at-home platform helps agencies engage with patients more directly and unlock “timely home-based insights” that can increase a senior’s “healthy days at home,” according to the company.

“Dina helps us position ourselves to partner with payers in the new world of expanded home-based care,” Kerri Pendley, VP of strategy at FirstLight Home Care, said in a statement. “The tools allow us to facilitate seamless referrals and integration of our home care services. Once activated, we can use outcome-based data to advocate on behalf of our clients for expanded services where needed.”

The partnership will be particularly beneficial to FirstLight, as its Medicare Advantage (MA) strategy has become an important part of its business initiatives over the last couple of years.

Minnesota selects HHAeXchange for EVV

The Minnesota Department of Human Services has chosen HHAeXchange — a provider of home care management solutions for payers and agencies — as its state-provided electronic visit verification (EVV) system.

The 21st Century Cures Act, which became law in 2016, came with an EVV mandate for all states. Thus, there are different EVV requirements for home-based care providers in different states.

The goal of the Cures Act was to decrease frause, waste and abuse within the home health industry.

“We are proud to have been chosen by the State of Minnesota to aggregate EVV data on its behalf,”HHAeXchange CEO Greg Strobel said in a statement. “We’re looking forward to providing a seamless offering for home care and self-direction providers that will help meet Minnesota’s goal of ensuring all people and communities can achieve optimal physical, mental and social well-being with access to quality care.”

The contract was officially awarded to the New York-based HHAeXchange in late May.

Minnesota is utilizing a hybrid EVV set-up, meaning that HHAeXchange will be consolidating all visit data, no matter which specific EVV tools are being used on the front end. Its platform will be used by around 112,000 workers serving over 80,000 patients, according to the company.

Axxess forms strategic partnership with Forcura

Dallas-based Axxess, a home health technology company, announced Monday that it had formed a strategic partnership with Jacksonville, Florida-based Forcura.

Forcura — also a frequent home-based care company partner — is a health care technology company that specifically helps enhance agencies’ electronic health record (EHR) technology. Its platform combines workflow and collaboration tools, third-party engagement capabilities and analytics to support providers across the continuum.

Thanks to the partnership, Axxess EHR clients will be able to process referrals and onboard patients up to 50% faster, according to a press release.

“Technology integrations like this partnership with Forcura are the key to transforming the delivery of care in the home,” John Olajide, founder and CEO of Axxess, said in a statement. “This enhanced experience will empower our clients to provide the best patient care, while lowering their administrative expenses and optimizing their revenue cycles.”