Lyft and Uber are taking over the urban jungle in more ways then just picking up the Saturday night crowd. Now they are taking over contracts once held by taxi operators to get you to the doc’s office – PB/TK
Lyft, Uber Increasingly Offering Medical Transportation Services – By Ryan Grenoble / Aug 7 2017
Instead of lights and sirens, health care transportation is increasingly featuring Lyft and Uber logos ― and that’s a good thing for nearly everyone involved.
Just ask Sachin Jain, the CEO of CareMore Health System, a California medical group that focuses on senior populations.
In 2016, Lyft signed an agreement with CareMore to begin providing non-emergency medical transportation to its patients. So far, the move has saved his company more than $1 million, Jain told CNBC last week.
What’s more, it’s also provided drastically better service, resulting in 30 percent shorter wait times and patient satisfaction exceeding 80 percent.
Jain elaborated on those successes in an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association last year, noting the efficiencies lead to better outcomes for patients, who can more reliably receive routine medical care and stay out of emergency rooms; doctors, who can more easily manage patients’ chronic conditions; and cost-savings for the broader medical system, as managing chronic disease is substantially cheaper than repeated ER visits. Transportation problems are estimated to cause about 3.6 million Americans to forgo or delay nonemergency health care every year.
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