HealthIT News: Coordinated Behavioral Care (CBC) Selects Sense Health to Support Care Management for Medicaid Members in New York

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Sense Health, a New York-based mobile health technology company, announced its partnership with Coordinated Behavioral Care Inc. (CBC)’s Health Home, which provides care coordination to Medicaid beneficiaries with serious behavioral and/or medical conditions. CBC is deploying Sense Health with 12 of its NYC care management agencies. Care coordinators will use the platform for two-way text message communication, including motivational, and reminder messages to increase patient engagement with their treatment services, such as adherence to scheduled appointments and prescribed medications.

This partnership comes at a pivotal time as New York State (NYS), the country’s second-largest state Medicaid program, undergoes a $6.42 billion delivery system redesign (DSRIP). The overall goal of DSRIP is to reduce avoidable hospital use by 25%.

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(Source: PR Newswire)