Saunders said that the annual medical costs for the people Synergy caters to is about $20,000 to $60,000. Synergy accepts major Medicare Advantage plans for most of its services, except for the services of in-home care aides. In addition to in-home service, Synergy also operates in independent living and assisted living homes. Saunders’ elderly parents are also patients, and he said their frustrating experience with medical care in a senior living facility was also a motivator for the concept. Synergy has about 150 patients, half of whom came by way of the acquisition.
Synergy was also able to leverage the personal care agency’s existing clients to form the core of its current patient roster. Synergy filled out most of its ranks through the acquisition earlier this year of Petersburg-based personal care agency Adult Healthcare Solutions. The rest of the team includes a half dozen nurses, a couple pharmacists, a physician and an operations team of about 10 people. Fifty of them are personal care aides, who handle things like cooking and bathing for customers. Saunders said the company has 80 employees. We’re taking advantage of those programs because we understand how Medicare works,” he said. “Post-COVID Medicare has rolled out several new programs intended to keep people in the home and those programs haven’t been widely adopted. Saunders said Medicare now offers more coverage for in-home services and that shift helped motivate his decision to launch the company. Synergy looks to capitalize on pandemic-inspired changes in how Medicare works for home-based health care. health care system is dysfunctional for seniors with chronic conditions and complex medication regimens.” One of the biggest barriers is feeling safe and getting quality health care because the U.S. “People want to age in place in their home.
At that age, what causes folks to have a negative change in condition is dehydration, urinary tract infections, heart failure and falls,” Saunders said.
“You don’t need rocket-science care, you need good primary care.
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