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As Healthcare Organizations Get Bigger, Healthcare Workers Feel Small

Posted on by Betty W. McBryde

There are two trends hitting healthcare right now, and they’re not unrelated. One is consolidation; big healthcare organizations are getting even bigger. The other is burnout. And the sooner we realize the connection between them, the better off the industry will be.

To review the latest headlines:

Elevance is acquiring Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Vermont are combining.

Amazon has acquired One Medical.

CVS Health has acquired Oak Street Health and Signify.

And of course, just a few weeks ago we learned that Kaiser Permanente plans to acquire Geisinger Health and form Risant Health. That deal will bring more than 13 million lives under Kaiser’s management. This all comes after years of consolidation and the creation of many

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Presbyterian Health Plan partners with New Mexico-based fitness company to offer members access to TruFit app

Posted on by Betty W. McBryde
TruFit, a New Mexico-based fitness company, has partnered with Presbyterian Health Plan to offer members access to its app aimed at adaptive athletes. (Lexi Boese/For TruFit)

Members of Presbyterian Health Plan who have intellectual, developmental and physical disabilities now have access to an app that allows them to receive customized fitness regimens, a move leadership at Presbyterian says allows them to address health care inequities in the state.

The health insurer, an arm of Presbyterian Healthcare Services, partnered with New Mexico-based TruFit to offer the app to enrollees with self-directed benefits, said PHP Chief Medical Officer Gray Clarke. Soon, the health insurer hopes to open access to the app for the larger Medicaid population enrolled in PHP.

“It came out of our acknowledgement of the need to address inequities in individuals with disabilities, and our recognition that individuals with disabilities have even higher rates of all chronic conditions than others

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