Uber Health Delivers Groceries & OTC to Patient Homes Nationwide 2023
Value-based care and population health can transform healthcare. The industry’s main difficulty is the administrative complexity of this treatment, especially additional benefits. Medicare and Medicaid lack visibility and infrastructure to successfully administer these programs.
Patients—many of whom are underserved or vulnerable—are sometimes assigned “homework.” They must arrange their own transportation to and from appointments and obtain necessary medications and nutritious meals.
Uber Health addresses these issues. Uber Health is supporting the industry-wide shift to value-based care to enhance patient outcomes and save costs by allowing seamless connection throughout the continuum of care.
Enabling Transportation to Reimagine Healthcare Logistics
“Value-based care is the future of healthcare, but it’s complicated and laborious to deliver and scale. “Uber Health addresses this challenge head-on,” said Caitlin Donovan, Uber Health Global Head.
“Our platform streamlines coordination across multiple benefits—non-emergency medical transportation, prescription delivery, and food and over-the-counter medication delivery—empowering payers and providers to support patients beyond a medical office.
Because our platform is built on the world’s greatest mobility network, we can uniquely satisfy these demands and unlock the potential of value-based care at scale.”
Uber Health, established by healthcare specialists with decades of expertise, uniquely allows payers and providers to see and coordinate benefits.
Providers will soon have access to payer patient benefit data and eligibility files, allowing them to use current benefit structures and safely deliver insurance-covered treatments. This innovative approach aims to improve patient treatment, member happiness, and convenience.
Uber’s Wide Network Unlocks “Food as Medicine” Benefits Nationwide
Uber Health’s grocery and OTC item delivery gives healthcare organizations another powerful lever to improve patient experience, health outcomes, and “closing the loop” on patient care as food as medicine programs become more common and show promising early results. Homebound patients and people in food deserts need this.
Uber Health will soon deliver food and OTC products to patient homes for payers and providers nationwide. Coordinators may tailor programs to patients’ health requirements when ordering, helping them live healthier lifestyles and improving the patient experience.
Uber Health’s grocery and OTC delivery service leverages Uber’s infrastructure and nationwide network of supermarket and convenience merchants to harness food’s medicinal potential.
Food as medicine initiatives improve preventative and chronic care, reduce acute events, and save healthcare expenditures.
One research suggested that universal healthy meal delivery might prevent 1.6 million hospitalizations and save payers $13.6 billion. Healthy meal availability saved the healthcare system 16%, according to a comparable research.