Clover Health to Provide In-Home COVID-19 Vaccinations to Medicare Advantage Members
September 16 2021 - 9:00AM
Today, Clover Health (NASDAQ: CLOV) (“Clover”), a technology
company committed to improving health equity for America’s seniors,
announced that it will provide in-home COVID-19 vaccinations, which
is especially critical to support Clover’s medically-complex and
homebound members. Clover has partnered with MedArrive, a
healthcare logistics and services platform, to kick off the
vaccination program in New Jersey.
COVID-19 vaccines that are currently available in the US are
clinically shown to be safe and highly effective at preventing
severe COVID-19 illness and death, including against the Delta
variant. The vaccine is particularly important for older adults and
those with complex chronic conditions, as these populations are at
higher risk for hospitalization or death. However, these
populations, especially those who are homebound, often face
significant challenges to accessing vaccination services, such as
transportation barriers, mobility issues, and lack of social
support.
“Many Clover members have disabilities or face other challenges
that can make it difficult for them to leave their homes, even to
obtain life-saving medical care like the COVID-19 vaccine,” said
Kumar Dharmarajan, Associate Chief Medical Officer of Clover
Health. “This service allows our most vulnerable members to get
essential care in the most timely and convenient way possible,
which we believe will ultimately improve their quality of life,
reduce hospital admissions and drive down healthcare costs.”
MedArrive's platform enables payers and providers to leverage a
network of EMTs, paramedics and other types of skilled healthcare
workers to extend care services into the home to improve patient
outcomes while empowering an underutilized segment of the
healthcare workforce.
“We strive to help as many Medicare eligibles across the country
as possible overcome healthcare barriers by meeting them where they
are and coordinating care with the care teams they already know and
trust,” said Dan Trigub, CEO and co-founder of MedArrive. “We are
excited to partner with Clover because we believe in their approach
to addressing health equity and the way they leverage coordinated
primary care to drive health outcomes improvement and medical
expense reduction for their members.”
For Clover members who have questions or need help scheduling or
getting to a COVID-19 vaccine appointment, visit
www.cloverhealth.com/vaccine or call 1-888-778-1478 (TTY/TDD 711) 8
am–8 pm local time, 7 days a week,* to get help from a live
representative.
*From April 1st through September 30th, alternate technologies
(for example, voicemail) will be used on the weekends and
holidays.
About Clover HealthClover Health (Nasdaq: CLOV)
is a next-generation insurance company aiming to achieve health
equity for all Americans. While our mission is to improve every
life, we particularly focus on seniors who have historically lacked
access to affordable high quality healthcare.
We aim to provide great care, in a sustainable way, by having a
business model built around improving medical outcomes while
lowering avoidable costs. We do this while taking a holistic
approach to understanding the health needs and social risk factors
of those under our care. This strategy is underpinned by the
company’s proprietary software platform, the Clover Assistant,
which is designed to aggregate patient data from across the health
ecosystem to support clinical decision-making by providing
physicians with real-time, personalized recommendations at the
point of care.
Making care more accessible is at the heart of our business, and
we believe patients should have the freedom to choose their
doctors. We offer two models of care: affordable Medicare Advantage
plans with extensive benefits; and care coordination for Original
Medicare beneficiaries through Direct Contracting. For both
programs, we provide primary care physicians with the Clover
Assistant and also make comprehensive home-based care available via
the Clover Home Care program.
With its corporate headquarters in Nashville, Clover’s workforce
is distributed around the U.S. and also includes a team of
world-class technologists based in Hong Kong. The company manages
care for Medicare beneficiaries in eleven states, including
Arizona, Georgia, Kansas, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York,
Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Vermont.
About MedArriveMedArrive enables healthcare
payers and providers to seamlessly extend care services into the
home, unlocking access to high-quality healthcare for more people
at a fraction of the cost.
MedArrive’s healthcare logistics and services platform allows
providers and payers to bridge the virtual care gap, integrating
physician-led telemedicine with in-person care from EMS
professionals, Nurses, Community Health Workers, Phlebotomists, and
more. As a result, patients can access trusted medical expertise
from their homes' comfort and safety without interruption to the
continuity of care, ultimately resulting in better patient
outcomes, a better-utilized healthcare workforce, and significant
cost savings for patients and providers alike.
MedArrive has more than 50k highly-skilled "Field Providers''
including EMS professionals in its national network, and services
span dozens of clinical use cases, including complex condition
monitoring, transitional care and readmission prevention,
vaccinations and immunizations, medication administration and much
more. To learn more, visit medarrive.com or follow us on Twitter
@medarrive or LinkedIn.
Media ContactAndrew
Still-Baxterpress@cloverhealth.com
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