Community Health

Payer Funds Local Practices to Help Address Racial Care Disparities

by Victoria Bailey

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (Blue Cross) is providing $25 million to local healthcare organizations to help reduce racial care disparities. The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)...

Payer Financially Supports Diversity in Mental Healthcare Workforce

by Victoria Bailey

Blue Shield of California (Blue Shield) is donating $500,000 to a nonprofit internship program in an effort to help diversify the behavioral and mental healthcare workforce. Health Career Connection...

UHC Funds Community-Based Social Determinants of Health Efforts

by Victoria Bailey

UnitedHealthcare is aiming to address social determinants of health and increase access to care by granting $11.4 million to community-based organizations throughout the country. As a part of its...

Payer Gives Community-Based Social Determinants of Health Support

by Victoria Bailey

Updated 6/30/21: Humana's Bold Goal strategy led to a 6.8 percent decrease in the number of unhealthy days for San Antonio members. A previous version listed 8.6 percent as the...

Centene Launches PSA Initiative to Boost COVID-19 Vaccine Rates

by Victoria Bailey

Centene Corporation has launched a new initiative to increase COVID-19 vaccination rates among health plan members as well as all Americans. One half of the initiative will include a call campaign to...

Blue Shield Aims to Reduce Mental Health Racial Care Disparities

by Victoria Bailey

To help combat racial care disparities in communities of color, Blue Shield of California (Blue Shield) provided $300,000 to 12 different...

Payers Address COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake With Member Engagement

by Hannah Nelson

Health insurance providers are taking a variety of approaches to encourage equitable COVID-19 vaccine uptake, such as forming community partnerships, using targeted outreach for member engagement,...

Health Equity Effort Engages Community Partners, Progress Measures

by Hannah Nelson

Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) announced a national health equity strategy that focuses on measuring racial health disparities, forming community and clinical partnerships, scaling...

Payer Community Health Partnerships to Address Food Insecurity

by Hannah Nelson

On the path to value-based care, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (Blue Cross NC) has announced a new long-term plan to improve community health outcomes by addressing social determinants...

How Payers Use Clinics to Boost Vision Benefits, Access to Care

by Hannah Nelson

Aetna leveraged the clinic model and manufacturing abilities of OneSight, an international vision care nonprofit, in a three-day clinic that improved vision benefits and access to care for 275 Atlanta...

Payer Seeks to Democratize Social Determinants of Health Data

by Kelsey Waddill

Blue Shield of California has partnered with a third-party vendor to make social determinants of health data accessible to anyone. Payers and providers talk extensively about sharing social...

Payers Redesign Referral Networks for Social Determinants of Health

by Kelsey Waddill

As Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City (Blue KC) relied on its social needs referral network to meet regional social determinants of health demands during the coronavirus pandemic, the payer...