New York City Health & Hospitals Corporation & MetroPlus Health Plan Expand Medicaid Telehealth Monitoring for Chronic Heart Failure

OPEN MINDS Weekly News Wire Strategic Health Care News On July 22, 2010, the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC), in conjunction MetroPlus Health Plan, a managed Medicaid and Medicare Advantage plan, announced it had launched a telehealth care management program for its members with chronic heart failure. The program, “House Calls” Telehealth Heart Failure started in January 2010, and as of July had 14 participants. It provides each participant with wireless devices that monitor blood pressure and weight and with frequent telephonic contact with a House Calls Telehealth nurse, who reviews the device data (transmitted via a . . .