Rethinking How Medicaid Patients Receive Care

How one organization is generating promising results.

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Sachin H. Jain

by

and

Sachin H. Jain

October 05, 2018

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Summary.

CareMore new model has generated promising results in Memphis and Des Moines, and it is now beginning to extend it to other places. Its elements include comprehensive, relationship-based primary care; collaborative behavioral health; community and patient engagement focused on social needs; and removing silos between inpatient care and the community.

In 2015, CareMore embarked on a journey to transform care delivery in Medicaid with the aim of leveraging its 20-year history in providing comprehensive care for seniors under Medicare. To many at the time, we were fools.

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Vivek Garg, MD, is chief medical officer at CareMore Health, a division of Anthem, Inc. He previously was director of medical operations at Oscar Health, clinical assistant professor at Weill Cornell Medicine, and medical director at One Medical Group.
Amberly Molosky is president of East Markets at CareMore Health, a division of Anthem, Inc. She previously was vice president of home-based solutions for a Iowa-based, comprehensive, senior living organization and has spent 15 years leading innovative programs for vulnerable patients and caregivers in hospital and primary care.
Sandeep Palakodeti, MD, is a regional medical officer at CareMore Health, a division of Anthem, Inc. He previously was a senior associate consultant at the Mayo Clinic, where he practiced as an academic hospitalist, and was cofounder and chief medical officer of Sherbit.io, an AI-based health analytics company acquired by Medopad.
Sachin H. Jain, MD, is president and CEO of SCAN Group and SCAN Health Plan and an adjunct professor of medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He previously served as president and CEO of CareMore and Aspire Health, the care delivery divisions of Anthem, Inc. Follow him on Twitter at @sacjai.

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