Population Health

Health equity is being brought into the chapter's current events, says Elise Kohl-Grant, cochair of the programming committee at the chapter.

The National Institutes of Health estimates the cost of race and ethnicity disparities in the United States is upwards of $400 billion a year, says Dr. Michael Poku, chief clinical officer at Equality Health.  

Clinical decision support improves outcomes, ROI and the move to value-based care, says Yaw Fellin of Wolters Kluwer Health.

Data sets can be integrated into population health stratification to discover health equity issues that are preventing access to care, says Lynn Carroll, COO of HSBlox.  

Payers have seen success in improving health outcomes by taking a holistic approach to member interventions, says Leah Dewey, vice president of Cotiviti.

Health equity index measures will be used in determining a plan's bonus payments, says Christie Teigland, vice president of Research Science and Advanced Analytics at Inovalon.  

Having a central repository for consent would promote both interoperability and health equity, says Daniel Stein, president of Stewards of Change Institute.  

Groups with the highest gains in coverage because of Medicaid expansion include non-Hispanic Blacks, young adults and women.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General recommends Medicare develop its own source for race and ethnicity data collection in the Medicare population, says Ann Maxwell, HHS-OIG deputy inspector general for evaluations.  

Blue Cross NC will acquire 55 FastMed locations, with the intent to improve access and the patient experience.