HealthTeam Advantage integrates Bamboo Health’s Pings solution to strengthen provider collaboration and improve patient outcomes

Real-time electronic notifications reduce costs and unnecessary usage while improving coordinated and quality care

LOUISVILLE, Ky.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–
Bamboo Health™, a healthcare technology solutions company focused on advancing collaborative care and delivering actionable insights and insights across the continuum of care, announced today that HealthTeam Advantage (HTA), the trade name of Care N’ Care Insurance Company of North Carolina, Inc., has integrated Bamboo Health’s Pings™ solution. The Pings deployment provides real-time electronic admission, discharge, and transfer (ADT) notifications for the 15,000 members of HTA’s PPO and HMO Medicare Advantage plan in North Carolina.

HTA is a subsidiary of Cone Health, a nonprofit healthcare network that first used Pings to better manage patient care journeys and improve health outcomes in 2017. With this implementation, the Medicare Advantage plan will build on its mission to improve the health and well-being of its members. through a commitment to personalized service, quality and health care. Through the use of Pings, HTA receives real-time electronic notifications whenever patients experience care events, allowing the company to adapt how it manages its PPO and HMO patient populations. Whether a patient is in a hospital, post-acute care facility, or presenting to the emergency department, the solution alerts payers and providers of their patient’s status in real time. This allows them to intervene and communicate with members of the care team before a patient receives treatment or schedule follow-up appointments in a timely manner.

“Bamboo Health provides HealthTeam Advantage with real-time health status information for all of our members, whether they are receiving care in Greensboro or in any of the seven surrounding counties we serve,” said Nancy Truver, vice president of care and utilization management services. “By integrating Pings, we’re raising healthcare providers’ awareness of patient health status, resulting in more informed and comprehensive patient care.” Additionally, we support our organization’s vision to be the leading Medicare Advantage plan dedicated to exceptional, personalized, and caring experiences.

In addition to real-time data insights provided by Pings, the solution will also drive the automation of Key Usage Management (UM) functions. For example, Pings will be integrated with HTA’s Unified Messaging tool to automatically enable pre-authorizations. This, in turn, will streamline processes for ETS staff and members receiving care. Other use cases for Pings include enabling more informed care encounters, increasing member engagement, and providing real-time visibility into care transitions. These capabilities help HTA ensure the best possible outcome for all members.

“The ADT electronic notifications offered by Bamboo Health’s Pings solution help coordinate care and services, especially for patients with increasingly complex healthcare needs, by empowering all healthcare providers with a patient with real-time knowledge of high-value healthcare moments, such as admission and discharge from the emergency department, hospitals, post-acute care facilities, and more,” explained Rob Cohengeneral manager of Bamboo Health.

To learn more about how Bamboo Health’s Pings solution provides advanced real-time alerts that improve patient outcomes, please visit www.bamboohealth.com/solutions/pings.

About Bamboo Health

Bamboo Health is a health technology solutions company, focused on advancing collaborative care and delivering actionable insights and insights across the continuum of care. As one of the largest and most diverse care collaboration networks in the country, Bamboo Health’s technology solutions provide healthcare providers and payers with software, information and insights to facilitate care. person in all areas of physical and behavioral health. By serving 2,500 hospitals, 8,000 post-acute care facilities, more than 25,000 pharmacies, 32 health plans, 50 state governments, and more than 1 million acute and outpatient care providers through more than 500 healthcare systems. electronic clinical information, Bamboo Health impacts more than a billion patient encounters each year in provider workflows. Healthcare systems, payers, providers, pharmacies, governments, individuals and other organizations rely on Bamboo Health to improve care and reduce costs. Login with Bamboo Health on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook. Visit www.bamboohealth.com to learn more.

About HealthTeam Advantage

Care Don’t Care Insurance Company of North Carolina, Inc. (CNC-NC) dba HealthTeam Advantage (HTA) is a health insurance plan founded in 2016 in Greensboro, North Carolina HTA offers Medicare Advantage plans to eligible Medicare beneficiaries in select counties in North Carolina and is committed to the health and well-being of its members and communities. HTA offers medical and pharmaceutical, dental, vision and hearing services, as well as personalized customer service. Learn more at HealthTeamAdvantage.com.

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