Jodi Fenner, senior director at Elevance Health, speaks on the key themes she presented during her session at the 2023 Health Equity Summit in San Diego, California, titled, "Promoting Health ...

Flanked by health care leaders of color on the State House steps, Sen. Liz Miranda framed her health equity reform omnibus ...

Increasing access to primary care in the face of a growing primary care physician shortage is a significant challenge, but it is crucial in improving health outcomes and equity, and in reducing costs.

Barbara Sicalides, Joseph Kadlec and Erin Whaley of Troutman Pepper Locke LLP discuss actions by state legislatures to ...

One very important aspect of health equity that should not be overlooked is access to care. While a key part of access is being able to get an appointment as quickly as possible when you’re sick ...

More than other diseases, COVID-19 has revealed the significant racial disparities in care in the US. COVID-19 did not create those health disparities, but the national conversations and expanded ...

One analysis finds that private equity investors spent more than $200 billion on health care acquisitions in 2021 alone, and $1 trillion over the past decade. State Sen. Cindy Friedman (D-MA): It ...

Private-equity firms’ rapid pace of health care acquisitions have prompted discussions about their influence on the US health care system. Policy makers, especially at the state level, are ...

When private equity buys a health care company, patients often pay the price. A 2021 study concluded that private equity ownership increases the short-term mortality of nursing home residents by ...

The Health 202: Private equity involvement in the health-care sector has been growing for some time. What drew your attention to this issue? Markey: It was in the wake of Steward Health Care ’s ...

In 2015 the Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation launched a grant-making initiative called Specialty Care for Vulnerable Populations to address inequities in access to, and utilization of, specialty ...

In the latest episode of Equity in Focus, hosted by Kevin E. Hooks, the conversation centers on the intersection of operations, strategy, and equity within health care—a crucial dialogue in ...