Colby Takeda is CEO of Pear Suite which has developed a system that helps organizations employing community health workers to track and pay for their work. These community health workers are in multiple social and health organizations. Increasingly states Medicaid and health plans are paying directly to community organizations and Pear Suite is building the capacity for those organizations to contract and bill the plans and states. The community health workers are now out helping engage patients, particularly around preventative services, housing, food access and much more. This includes those people in the health system and is saving health care organizations money, and is improving HEDIA and Star scores. Pear Suite has been doing this since 2023 and has over 100 clients already, and has even built its own network of community health workers. A niche, but a very impactful one-Matthew Holt
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