HIMSSCast
HIMSSCast is a podcast produced by the HIMSS Media editorial team behind Healthcare IT News, MobiHealthNews, and Healthcare Finance News. In each episode, our editors are joined by special guests from around the health tech industry to discuss major news stories or trends in the space. The aim of the show is to add depth, analysis and color to our ongoing coverage of the digital health, health tech and healthcare finance realms, as well as to facilitate lively conversations about hot health tech topics.
HIMSSCast
What is direct primary care, and how can it help patients?
The fee-for-service model of healthcare has been reexamined over the past few years, with alternative models increasingly gaining traction. Zak Holdsworth, CEO and co-founder of Hint Health, tells Healthcare Finance News Executive Editor Susan Morse he believes the status quo payment models are on their way out – and the question isn't "if," but "when."
Talking points:
-How Hint Health got started
-How the direct primary care model works
-The benefit for health systems
-What about specialty care?
-Employers are starting to explore new options
-Should insurers be scared?
-The difference between this model and the ACO REACH model
-The future for Hint Health
More about this episode:
Employees want direct primary care from their employer plans
Flat-fee primary care model helping fill a niche in Texas, but it isn't insurance
Fueled by health law, 'Concierge Medicine' reaches new markets
Hint Health rolls out value-based primary care direct contracting network
How a direct primary care model provider benefits from an easy-to-use EHR