by Jessica Casebolt | May 31, 2023 | Inequities and SDOH, Tea Leaves
OptumRx launched initiatives designed to expand the services available at community and rural pharmacies amid a looming legislative crackdown on pharmacy benefit managers’ business practices. The PBM, which is owned by UnitedHealth Group, will work with pharmacies in...
by Jessica Casebolt | May 12, 2023 | Inequities and SDOH, Tea Leaves
Payers can and should be doing more to address health inequities, a new report by the United Hospital Fund says. The New York-based nonprofit aims for the report to serve as a road map for payers looking to do the work of elevating equity. Payers are uniquely...
by Jessica Casebolt | May 11, 2023 | Inequities and SDOH, Tea Leaves
Seventeen health systems including big names like CommonSpirit Health and Providence have signed onto a pledge that at least 10 percent of their new hires will hail from “economically disadvantaged areas” by 2027, according to a release from social determinants of...
by Jessica Casebolt | May 5, 2023 | Inequities and SDOH, Tea Leaves
Immigrant adults and children under the age of 65, including those who are undocumented, account for 8 percent of the U.S. population but make up nearly 32 percent of the uninsured population in the country, according to a new report from the Urban Institute and the...
by Jessica Casebolt | Apr 28, 2023 | Inequities and SDOH, Tea Leaves
A new study from the Urban Institute found that more than 1 in 5 U.S. adults without access to a vehicle or public transportation missed or skipped a medical appointment in the previous year. The researchers noted that telehealth may have reduced transportation...
by Jessica Casebolt | Apr 25, 2023 | Inequities and SDOH, Tea Leaves
The health insurance industry trade association AHIP launched a national advertising campaign with the goal of exposing pharmaceutical companies’ role in high drug costs, saying they deflect blame for their role onto other areas of the health system. The ads,...
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