News Briefs: Habitat Health Launches PACE Program in California With Kaiser Permanente

Apr 04
Apr 04, 2024

With support from Kaiser Permanente and investment firm Town Hall Ventures, Habitat Health has established a new Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE). Offering comprehensive care to adults who wish to live independently in their homes and communities, Habitat Health will serve aging and low-income adults in California in partnership with Kaiser and eventually expand to other states with local care partners. Habitat Health plans to begin serving PACE-eligible individuals in Los Angeles and Sacramento in 2025 and will serve as payer for all participants’ Medicare and Medicaid services. The new PACE provider will “benefit from Kaiser Permanente’s expertise in creating efficient systems and developing innovative technology to integrate complex care, and from Town Hall Ventures’ experience building successful care delivery companies that support underserved communities,” stated a March 27 press release from all three entities. Town Hall Ventures, whose leadership includes former CMS Acting Administrator and White House adviser Andy Slavitt, was founded in 2018 and has invested in or participated in the launch of 35 health care companies, including Cityblock Health, Landmark Health, Signify Health and VillageMD. Read more
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Lauren Flynn Kelly

Lauren has been covering health business issues since the early 2000s and specializes in in-depth reporting on Medicare Advantage, managed Medicaid and Medicare Part D. She also possesses a deep understanding of the complex world of pharmacy benefit management, having written AIS Health’s Radar on Drug Benefits from 2004 to 2005 and again from 2011 to 2016. In addition to her role as managing editor of Radar on Medicare Advantage, she oversees AIS Health’s publications and manages the health editorial staff. She graduated from Vassar College with a B.A. in English.