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Spotlight: The Importance of Faith-Based Infrastructure to Support Medicaid Populations
A Chicago pastor explains how houses of worship can act as a critical link in supporting community health, and why they have been focused lately on mental health.
Spotlight: Cutting through the Noise to Better Manage Utilization
Learn how one of our health plan partners figures out where to focus their quality improvement efforts.
Evolent's Lori Fox Ward speaks with HFMA on the implementation challenges of the federal surprise-billing law.
Spotlight: Meeting the Data Demands of NCQA’s New Health Equity Accreditation
Analyzing and leveraging the "right" data will be key to earning Our managing director of quality and accreditation explains what health plans must do to earn this new
The Heart of Care: Finding a Life-Sustaining Medication During a Nationwide Shortage
A Care Advisor’s relentless search turns up a much-needed medication at a fraction of the price.
The Heart of Care: Catching a Life-Threatening Complication
Care management provides a lifeline to a Medicare beneficiary living with pulmonary fibrosis.
Building on the Medicare Shared Savings Program To Drive Health Care Transformation
See our prescriptions for maximizing MSSP's potential to grow, improve patient outcomes and slash Medicare spending.
Back on Track: Why It’s Time to Recommit to Value-Based Care
Our VP of Health Policy reflects on the need to take the lessons learned over the past decade and apply them on a larger scale.
The Heart of Care: With Help, 'Overwhelming' Health Challenges Become Manageable
Medicare beneficiary Carson Boone credits care management for getting his health back on track.
Helping a Vulnerable Patient Stick with Her Care Plan—and Meal Plan
An Evolent Care Advisor closes a critical gap that could have prevented an isolated patient from getting enough nutrition.
The Heart of Care: Thorough Review Uncovers a Missing Medication
Performing a patient’s annual medication review, Evolent Clinical Pharmacist Avani Arora recognized a vital missing drug and quickly addressed the issue.
Medicare beneficiaries in Evolent’s care management programs had fewer hospitalizations and lower health costs.
The Heart of Care: Addressing Behavioral Health, Immediate Needs Go Hand in Hand During Social Isolation
Behavioral Health Specialist Teena Lovern takes a whole-person approach to help patients facing challenges on multiple fronts.
The Heart of Care: Beating the Odds with Compassionate Care Coordination
Evolent's April Womack facilitates a virtual visit, and later a socially distanced house call, for a patient with breathing problems and suspected COVID-19.
The Heart of Care: Navigating Post-Discharge Care Gaps During a Pandemic
When a patient did not receive critical medications for her respiratory problems, Evolent Health's Linda Cassidy stepped in to help close the gap.
The Heart of Care: Removing Roadblocks to Help a Vulnerable Patient Stay Home
Evolent's Sara Plucker helped a man with multiple chronic diseases obtain important medications and avoid out-of-pocket pharmacy costs as COVID-19 threatened his community.
The Heart of Care: Connecting Members to Critical Needs During a Pandemic
A new food program helps a vulnerable woman stay at home and reduce her risk of exposure.
Cost-Based Predictive Models Can Perpetuate Racial Bias. Will Health Plans and Providers Stop Using Them?
Shantanu Phatakwala explains how to combat racial bias in population health models, following news that a widely used model was underestimating black patients’ needs for care management.
The Heart of Care: Tackling Postpartum Complications and Complex Family Challenges
Facing an intreated infection and a host of family and financial difficulties at home, a mother urgently needed support. Evolent RN Nurse Educator Yuneysi Diaz answered the call for help.
The Heart of Care: A Terminally Ill Patient Finds the Support to Take on Her Bucket List
When aggressive cancer treatments began to severely diminish a patient's quality of life, Evolent RN Care Advisor Wendy Haas helped her to change direction and make the most of her final months.