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Boston Children’s to Participate in Pay-for-Equity Model

April 30, 2024
Fifty-six percent of Blue Cross' Massachusetts members now receive care from clinicians taking part in equity-focused value-based agreements
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More Academic Medical Centers Support Health Equity Research

Jan. 16, 2024
Vanderbilt University Medical Center announces the creation of a Program for Health Equity Research
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Q&A: Olu Jegede, M.D., Cone Health’s V.P. of Clinical Care and Health Equity

Jan. 2, 2024
‘We have a 15-year gap in life expectancy between these two Zip codes that are only separated by a five-mile radius of the Moses Cone campus. That is staggering to us,’ Jegede...
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Humana, Optum Health Execs Describe Building Health Equity Infrastructure

Dec. 11, 2023
Optum Health builds a disparities analytics dashboard, and Humana has created its own population health analytics business intelligence tool
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UChicago Medicine Wins Tyson Equity Award for Postpartum Care Initiative

Oct. 24, 2023
The award, named for the late Bernard J. Tyson, former Kaiser Permanente chairman and CEO, recognizes initiatives that achieve measurable, sustained reductions in healthcare disparities...
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Q&A: NCQA’s Kristine Thurston Toppe on Health Equity Accreditation

Oct. 13, 2023
NCQA is working with state agencies as they come together to address the population as a whole in multi-public sector payer alignment