Catalyst Connection
Stay informed about Catalyst’s efforts to enable primary care for all. News, insights and blog posts from Catalyst and other industry thought leaders offer perspectives on the transformation of primary care and what we can all do to accelerate it.
Will the pandemic disruption reshape how we pay for primary care?
Dr. Christopher Crow, CEO of Plano, TX-based Catalyst Health Network, an independent clinically integrated network, discusses how the pandemic-induced recession is accelerating employer and insurer interest in changing the way they pay for care. Listen to Podcast…
Dallas lawmaker wants to keep telemedicine growing in Texas after COVID-19 with ‘pay parity’ bill
Physicians and patients like the convenience the practice brought during pandemic, but health plans say mandating reimbursement rates would interfere with its negotiated rates. Read Article…
Providers try to address mounting delays in care as pandemic stretches on
Like many primary-care physicians across the country, Dr. Trevor Huber is using telehealth to triage patients for COVID-19 symptoms. Read Article…
Here are some ideas to steal from this year’s Top 100 Places to Work winners
Good things can happen in bad times, and many of our winners say the creative ways they discovered to keep close while staying distant are worth keeping, even post-pandemic. Read Article…
Bringing Primary Care to Southern Dallas
The Catalyst Community Foundation aims to extend care to high-risk communities and attack health inequity upstream. Read Article…
Baylor, Catalyst Health partner to drive down costs
Baylor Scott & White’s clinically integrated network and the Texas-based primary care network Catalyst Health Network have formed a partnership focused on reducing healthcare costs and improving access for northern Texas residents. Read Article…
Baylor alliance, Catalyst Health to combine giant doctors groups in push for value-based care
With thousands of physicians in Dallas-Fort Worth, the two large integrated networks already serve 1.75 million lives — and have designs on many more. Read Article…
Catalyst Health Network Launches Nonprofit Foundation to Address Healthcare Disparities
Catalyst Community Foundation aims to make primary care more affordable and accessible to all of North Texas. PLANO, TEXAS — October 21, 2020 — Catalyst Health Network, a URAC-accredited clinically integrated network of primary care physicians, recently established the Catalyst Community Foundation, a 501(c)3 organization dedicated to transforming communities—particularly historically underserved neighborhoods—by…
Finalists Announced: D CEO‘s 2020 Excellence in Healthcare Awards
A worldwide pandemic has illuminated the quality of the region’s healthcare organizations, as they worked to care for North Texas patients amid unprecedented revenue shocks and economic hardship. To recognize those individuals and organizations keeping North Texas healthy, D CEO has named finalists for its Excellence in Healthcare Awards.
Texas physicians are losing money during the pandemic. They want lawmakers to make health insurers pay up.
The Texas Academy of Family Physicians is also asking legislators to expand Medicaid insurance coverage to low-income adults and restore funding for a program that studied racial health disparities.