Telehealth & Virtual Care

Virtual and AI-enabled care is moving deeper into VBC-relevant workflows—home health, primary care access, oncology navigation, and chronic condition management—with Adaptive Innovations raising $50M to scale AI-powered home health operations and Ilant Health raising $15M for virtual obesity care aimed at employers and health plans. At the same time, state scrutiny of corporate practice of medicine laws is creating legal and operating risk for direct-to-consumer telehealth models, which could affect payer-contracted virtual care networks and delegated-risk arrangements that rely on national telehealth platforms STAT. For ACOs and Medicare Advantage organizations, the near-term signal is clear: virtual care investment is shifting from visit substitution to population management infrastructure, but compliance, physician-control structures, and integration with longitudinal care teams will determine whether these tools support risk performance or become fragmented cost centers AI-powered home health funding.