AJMC January 23, 2023
Jodi Fenner, senior director at Elevance Health, speaks on the key themes she presented during her session at the 2023 Health Equity Summit in San Diego, California, titled, “Promoting Health Equity through Primary Care.”
Managed care organizations (MCOs) are heavily investing in health equity strategies to reduce inequities among population groups defined by factors such as race or ethnicity, gender, education or income, disability, geographic location, and sexual orientation. As noted by the Institute for Medicaid Innovation in the 2021 Annual Medicaid Health Plan Survey, the majority of MCOs employ dedicated staff and/or teams focused on addressing health disparities, health equity, racial equity, and structural racism—with over two-thirds having formal health equity plans in 2020.1
Most MCOs also...
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