Leveraging digital tools for enhanced care management (ECM)

Leveraging digital tools for enhanced care management (ECM)

Over 50% of the annual Medicaid spending is attributed to about 5-10% of members. These high-cost, high-need members typically have several complex health conditions with significant physical, behavioral, and social needs. A large percentage of these members experience health disparities and due to health equity gaps, they are at significant risk for hospitalization, institutionalization, and…

5 steps to promote health equity with health benefit designs

5 steps to promote health equity with health benefit designs

US life expectancy has seen the sharpest decline in over 100 years. While we are unfortunately seeing a cumulative decline, the fall is much more pronounced in some populations than others. The reasons for this decline go beyond the Covid-19 pandemic. We have longstanding health problems related to health disparities - poor access to health…

How can digital care management advance health equities

How can digital care management advance health equities

Care management is used by health plans and providers to closely manage one or more conditions, such as diabetes, or to prevent an acute event, such as an unnecessary emergency department (ED) visit. ED visits are costly and many visits are preventable. Preventable ED visits are ones that can be handled in a different setting…