Fierce Healthcare January 12, 2022
Beginning this month, JPMorgan Chase’s some 8,000 California employees will be able to access care through Kaiser Permanente, and the partnership will put a focus on health disparities.
The two plan to jointly collect and report health equity metrics for those patients, Morgan Health executives said at the annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference this week. JPMorgan and Kaiser Permanente plan to roll out performance guarantees tied to health equity on certain quality measures for JPMorgan employees beginning in 2023.
Dan Mendelson, CEO of Morgan Health, said many employers are naming health equity as a key issue, but relationships like this are a rarity.
“You just don’t see arrangements where employers are gearing up to contract for improvements in health equity,”...