Koda Health, the AI-enhanced advance care planning platform (ACP), announced a new partnership with Medical Home Network (MHN) to expand access to care planning within the nation’s healthcare safety net. Through this collaboration, MHN will offer Koda Health’s scalable, patient-centered ACP solutions to select federally qualified health center (FQHC) partners in its network, enhancing care for underserved communities.
MHN, a nationally recognized public benefit corporation dedicated to transforming care in the safety net and building healthier communities, partners with over 80 federally qualified health centers across eight states impacting more than 300,000 lives including Medicaid, Medicare and dual eligible individuals.
This partnership ensures patients have access to high-quality digital advance care planning. Koda Health’s platform helps patients understand their options, make decisions based on their values, and create legally compliant documents, commonly known as an advance directive or a medical power of attorney. Through the Koda platform, patients can complete this process easily and independently, while MHN’s FQHC partners gain real-time access to their patients’ care preferences during critical moments. For the highest-risk patients, Koda offers 1:1 expert support to guide this process and ensure care alignment.
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“This partnership brings advance care planning out of the abstract and into real, everyday care for patients who’ve historically been overlooked,” said Dr. Tatiana Fofanova, CEO and co-founder of Koda Health. “By working with MHN and their FQHC partners, we’re turning ACP into a standard part of care that reaches the people who need it most.”
Every year, more than 30 million Americans rely on FQHCs for primary care. But when it comes to serious illness or end-of-life, conversations around preferences are too often skipped, or only happen after it’s too late. Studies show nearly 25% of Medicare’s annual budget is spent in the last year of life, often on care that patients didn’t desire.
That’s what this partnership aims to change.
Koda Health has modernized the labor-intensive processes of advance care planning and advance directive production. The blend of Koda’s digital, AI-enhanced tools and expert clinical support transforms the vague paper forms into robust patient driven decision-making. Once complete, Koda’s platform provides decision-makers and care teams with instant access to critical, treatment-guiding documents. A clinic’s highest risk patients receive ongoing 1:1 palliative support, which ensures an additional layer of care alignment.
“Advance care planning has always been treated as a luxury of the well-resourced,” said Dr. Desh Mohan, Chief Medical Officer and co-founder at Koda Health. “But it’s exactly the communities that MHN and its FQHC partners serve, where chronic illness is more prevalent, where emergency care is overused, where trust in the system can be fragile, that need it the most.”
The partnership was motivated by decades of research showing that high-quality ACP drives better goal-concordant care for individuals facing serious illness, while also yielding significant cost savings. This evidence includes recent outcomes data from Koda Health demonstrating a 79% reduction in terminal hospitalizations, 38% reduction in ICU utilization, and 19% reduction in total cost of care for patients in the last year of life.
MHN has been transforming care delivery in the safety-net for over a decade, known for its commitment to whole-person, value-based models that reduce health disparities, improve care quality, and lower healthcare costs. This collaboration builds on that foundation, bringing together two mission-driven organizations with a shared belief: healthcare decisions should reflect human values, not just clinical codes.
“At Medical Home Network, we believe high-quality care starts with listening to the people we serve,” said Dr. Henish Bhansali, chief medical officer, MHN. “Partnering with Koda Health allows us to equip patients with the tools and support they need to take ownership of their care journeys long before moments of crisis. It’s a critical step forward for dignity and equity in healthcare.”
Source: PRNewswire
