InComm Healthcare Expands Benefit Card Offerings for Seniors

A recipient of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award, Merrill Brooks Smith is an experienced business executive living in Fort Lauderdale, FL. Having studied business administration, Merrill Brooks Smith founded InComm Payments in 1992 and grew into a premier payments technology company operating in over 30 countries. Headquartered in Atlanta, GA, the company has a presence in healthcare through InComm Healthcare.

InComm Healthcare is an innovative payment platform serving over 320 healthcare plans. Its trailblazing InComm Healthcare Benefit Card combines multiple benefits in one card, revolutionizing supplemental benefits. Some of the benefits members can allocate funds toward include: OTC products, healthy food, transportation, at-home care and support, and dental, vision, and hearing.

Expanding on its commitment to provide care to Americans wherever they are, in January 2022, InComm Healthcare partnered with Connect America to incorporate remote patient monitoring (RPM), personal emergency response (PERS), and medication management its benefit card. RPM enables providers to monitor health trends in patients with chronic conditions, enabling them to deliver early interventions so as to reduce instances of hospital admissions and readmissions.

PERS enables 24/7 assistance, with fall detection options, to seniors ageing in place, giving them the security that help is available when an emergency occurs. Medication management ensures seniors take their prescription drugs as directed, avoiding adverse events such as under or overdosing.