Healthcare DIVE September 22, 2021
Keys to successful interventions include good data, local connection and realistic ROI expectations, payer executives said Tuesday at AHIP’s annual conference on Medicare, Medicaid and dual eligibles.
Among the many initiatives accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic are efforts to combat inequities in the U.S. healthcare system that have persisted for years but were brought into stark relief when the coronavirus reached the country’s shores.
As a result, payers are implementing new programs to try and improve member’s health beyond the traditional care pipeline, especially through broader data collections and strategic partnerships, insurer executives said Tuesday at AHIP’s annual conference on Medicare, Medicaid and dual eligibles.
The pandemic created new needs that payers weren’t necessarily yet equipped to provide, according to...