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Learn more about how Highmark and Allegheny Health Network are taking action to address maternal health disparities and outcomes.

Discover how we're advancing population health management by optimizing care delivery in the home and community settings. This episode of our Healthy Days at Home podcast focuses on an integrated, whole-person approach to health, coverage and care. Hear from Executive Medical Director of Population and Curated Health Anil Singh MD, MPH, MMM; Senior Vice President of Population and Curated Health Enablement Chad Evans; and Vice President of Helion Nick Stupakis. Episode Highlights: 🔵 Nick, Chad and Dr. Singh share their personal experiences with caring for aging parents. As the population continues to age, virtual solutions and caregiver resources become increasingly important for managing health and care in the home. 🔵 Close collaboration and transparency with providers enables our blended health organization to understand clinician pain points, address them as an insurer and build innovative solutions to implement and test in our owned hospital network. 🔵 Population health is a key pillar of Highmark Health’s #LivingHealth strategy. To improve member outcomes, Dr. Singh and Chad emphasize that care must encompass all aspects of health: physical, social, mental and behavioral. 🔵 Together, these leaders are focused on integrating care, optimizing experiences and reducing duplication and fragmentation in healthcare. By implementing predictive models to anticipate patient needs, providers can connect patients to needed services right at the site of care. Watch or listen to the full 22-minute episode: https://bit.ly/461uMit

One of our companies, HM Insurance Group, protects businesses from the financial risk associated with health care costs. Learn more about what they do...by the numbers. (Click link below for full infographic.)

Kevin is a community health worker with ChristianaCare (one of our partners in Delaware) and is assigned to help dozens of patients with mental and behavioral health challenges. Before he can get those patients into clinical programs, he needs to first build trust with the entire family and understand the everyday challenges that make it harder for them to get care. Read more about community health workers and how trust is key to improving health equity and outcomes: https://bit.ly/3VJVlEr

In an evolving integrated health care system like ours, there's not one path you need to follow in your career. As we grow, you grow too. You'll find a culture here that recognizes your contributions and values your determination to be better today than you were yesterday. Let's be remarkable together: https://bit.ly/3oBYoRW

In June, many team members from our PRIDE and BOLD business resource groups participated in community celebrations across our footprint in honor of Juneteenth and Pride. Here are a few of our favorite photo memories.

The most successful payer-provider partnerships hinge on one crucial element: Trust. The best way to build trust? Neil Kulkarni explains 👇 Catch the full talk to hear how Neil and his team at Highmark Health are streamlining patient billing, prior authorizations, and more with a payer-provider approach: https://lnkd.in/enSADe5H

We performed an analysis on 800,000 social determinants of health assessments of our own patients and members. Although there is some variation by community, the top five needs across our footprint are: financial resources; health literacy; housing instability; social connections and safety. The study, published in JAMA, highlights the need to include individual and local data when building plans to address social drivers of health. We believe health systems, employers and government agencies should expand individual SDoH assessments to better inform care, program design and investments. Read the article below or here: https://lnkd.in/epcRw-Ra

Congratulations, enGen team members!

Couldn't attend #AHIP2024? Here are 5 key takeaways from Highmark Health executives who spoke at the conference. Topics include GLP-1 coverage, behavioral health spending, governing generative AI, customer experience investments, and closing gaps in women's care.