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All across the United States, people are banding together to create a healthier future. State by state, city by city, and street by street, visionary local leaders strive to solve the nation's most persistent health challenges. Each month, we’ll bring you an inside view of a different community-based health initiative — an honest look at the challenges communities face and the outstanding solutions they’ve found to address them. Melissa Eagan is the host of the Healthy Communities News podca ...
Each episode, I interview innovators in the healthcare industry to extract the strategies, tactics, tools, and/or routines they utilize to generate extraordinary, positive outcomes. We highlight and breakdown these bright spots so you can apply them at your organization. "See a bright spot .... and clone it!"
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The More We Know Community Show with Dr. Sylvia
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The More We Know Community Show with Dr. Sylvia
Dr. Sylvia Bartley
Advancing racial equity takes courage, patience, and an uncompromising spirit. This is a reality and burden minoritized communities face daily and have worked hard to bridge through advocacy, protest, education, and their own agency. Join Dr. Sylvia (published author and neuroscientist) on her show The more We know community show, conversations cultivating change, as she interviews change makers who are leveling the playing field for all minorities by breaking barriers in their careers, comm ...
Two physicians, through dialogue and interviews, take a critical look at medical training and the culture of medicine and explore how interpersonal boundary clarity and the capacity to fully engage are essential to effective medical practice, mentoring, medical education, and a nourishing career. This podcast builds on Dr. Weiner’s book, On Becoming a Healer: The Journey from Patient Care to Caring about Your Patients (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020). Hosted by Saul J. Weiner MD, and S ...
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Vanderbilt Health DNA: Discoveries in Action
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On Season 3, we explore how the current watershed era of change cascades into our lives and impacts mental and physical wellbeing. Medicine, science and communities are at a formative moment of recognizing the interplay between our bodies and minds with the shifting landscapes of nature and society. Yet, long-held stigmas and stereotypes persist. Join our community on Twitter @vumc_insights and watch this feed for new episodes in September. #ListenDNA
Mario Ball is an innovative leader and dynamic engineering professional with domestic and global experience in designing, developing, and selling medical devices/technology. He is currently the US Sales Director for Cardiac Diagnostics & Commercial Execution. During this episode, Mario shares how he determined his path in the medical device industr…
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Improve CAHPS through Enhanced Benefits Navigation
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Healthcare leaders from Alignment Health, SCAN, ATI Advisory and Dina discuss the importance of MA plans to ensure members understand available non-medical benefits. Making the experience painless is essential to attracting and retaining members – and improving CAHPS and Star Ratings. Learn successful strategies and best practices your plan can imp…
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From medical student mistreatment to burnout: How can we change the culture?
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In this second of a two-episode series on medical student mistreatment, we discuss its impact on burnout with a colleague who is working to change the culture of medical education and practice through research and leadership.By Saul J. Weiner, Stefan Kertesz, Lotte Dyrbye
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Success Stories in Virtual Care Enrollment & Engagement
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Healthcare leaders from United Health Group, Blue Shield of California, Highmark, Oklahoma Complete Health (Centene) and TytoCare share real-world, virtual care success stories. Gain insight into how virtual care boosts outcomes improves equity and reduces costs. Hear case studies, lessons learned, and best practices you can implement in your organ…
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Episode thirty-eight: From the Classroom to the Streets
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Nekima Levy-Armstrong, a lawyer and social justice activist, has an upfront and personal discussion with host Dr. Sylvia about her drive to consistently drive system change to advance justice and represent communities in their fight for Social Justice. Nekima shares her rich history of community engagement as a lawyer, former Minneapolis NAACP Pres…
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Mitigating Social Risk to Achieve Higher Star Ratings
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Senior leaders from Cigna, Independent Health, Regence, and Socially Determined join Eric to discuss how minimizing social risk helps plans garner higher quality and performance scores. Learn successful strategies for identifying, engaging, and addressing members with elevated social risks to drive gap closure and member retention. The session is f…
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Sell with a Story in Healthcare with Paul Smith
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A well-crafted story can pack the emotional punch to turn routine presentations into productive relationships. Organizational storytelling expert and author Paul Smith joins Eric to share his popular and proven formula for telling a story. Paul discusses the following: What is the optimal structure of a story? What different types of stories should…
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Medical Student Mistreatment: A Wicked Problem
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How is it that a healing profession -- medicine -- has such a deeply ingrained culture of harming its own? And what can we do about it? In this first of two back-to-back episodes on medical student mistreatment we consider the scope of the problem and attempts to confront it. We hear from one medical school that, with external funding, developed a …
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The Special Challenges of Women’s Heart Health
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Heart disease is the leading cause of death for women. In fact, 1 in 5 deaths among women is due to a cardiovascular issue. But many people don’t fully appreciate the particular risks women face when it comes to heart health. In this episode, our host Melissa Eagan speaks with Dr. Joanne Armstrong, Chief Medical Officer and Vice President of Women'…
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Equity & Timely Access as a Stars Strategy
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Industry leaders from MetroPlusHealth, Network Health, Priority Health and ReferWell discuss strategies to advance health equity and improve care access to achieve higher Star Ratings. As health equity initiatives play an increasingly important role in CMS programs, Medicare Advantage plans must commit to addressing social factors hindering access …
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Episode thirty-seven: Advocating for Social Justice
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Elizer Darris shares his empowering story of how he turned his life around, from serving a life sentence in MN prisons to becoming a recognized and celebrated leader in the Twin Cities, MN, community. Elizer is at the forefront of advocating for the Restore the Right to Vote bill and justice within the criminal and immigration systems. He is the Co…
MN community leaders Rose McGee and Monique Linder join host Dr. Bartley to discuss their work to celebrate Black History at the Minnesota Humanities Center and OMG. Rose also shares how her mission to provide community comfort and healing through baking her famous Sweet Potato Comfort Pies has taken her around the country and drawn attention in th…
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Episode thirty-five: Caring in the Workplace
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Host Dr. Sylvia converses with Andrea Campbell, the Founder and Chief Caring Officer (CCO) at Vybrant Living LLC, who shares why she feels it's crucial to create a radically caring and engaging workplace culture. And how her experience as a two-time cancer survivor forced her to stop existing and be more deliberate about what she's creating in her …
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Novel Approaches to Care Coordination: The Key to Profitable Risk Models
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Carle Health, Cedars-Sinai, Cleveland Clinic, and CarePort, powered by WellSky, discuss innovative and novel approaches to care coordination. Topics include: real-time transparency, streamlining and improving communication, and Interoperability between partner organizations. Panelists: Cynthia Deculus, Chief Population Health Officer and Vice Presi…
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Uncommon wisdom from a family physician and medical educator
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Simon Auster, MD, was a family physician, psychiatrist, and medical educator who had extraordinary insight about practicing medicine but absolutely zero interest in drawing attention to himself. His students and patients had the good fortune of having him as their teacher or doctor but far too few have benefited from his wisdom. Today we discuss so…
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Equity, Energy, Action: The climate opportunity
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In this excerpt from a Climate x Health Twitter Spaces live chat experts from Vanderbilt, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Philips take an expansive look at the disparities of climate change and its impact on health and well-being now and in the future. Listen in to hear how health and climate are fused and get ideas on how to find sustainability …
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Episode thirty-four: Emotional Health Goals
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A new year, new beginnings, and new goals! During this show, host Dr. Sylvia explores how to set emotional health goals and plans for 2023 with my guest Joy D. Calloway, a transformational speaker and charismatic leader with over 25 years of experience successfully building people, teams, and organizations. Her strengths are proven to motivate peop…
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Project Power Tackles Childhood Diabetes with Fun
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Reports from the CDC of a potential future surge in the number of young people with type 2 diabetes by 700%, and of type 1 diabetes by 65% over the next four decades is alarming. But there is cause for hope, thanks to an incredible initiative called Project Power that does empower kids in underserved and underfunded communities across the country o…
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ACO REACH: Advancing Equity and Optimizing Performance
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CareMount Health Solutions, VillageMD and Socially Determined leaders discuss the incentives and requirements laid out by the new ACO REACH model and how organizations can develop action plans to identify differences or disparities in their members' health status. CMS replaced the Global and Professional Direct Contracting (GPDC) Model with the red…
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Producer's Cut: Nashville's Opportunity: Eco-Action or Anxiety
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In this excerpt from a Climate x Health Twitter Spaces live chat, experts from Vanderbilt, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and others discuss hope and want listeners to be energetic and reject “doomerism” while embracing reality and emphasizing teamwork without ego to accomplish individual and systemic goals. This conversation was hosted live from t…
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Episode thirty-three: Financial Management and Wealth with Gail Covington
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Dr. Sylvia Bartley sits down with Gail Covington, the Executive Director and wealth advisor at Covington Wealth Management Group at Morgan Stanley. They discuss the importance of financial planning and a multitude of topics including inflation, assets, mortgages, institutional wealth, trusts, long term care, investments, insurance, and much more.…
Dr. Errol L. Pierre, Senior Vice President, State Programs at Healthfirst, joins Eric to discuss how health plans, providers and other organizations can create a culture of health equity. He notes the challenges of obtaining the data necessary to understand where to start. Errol advises organizations to gain the patient's or member's trust to get t…
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Episode thirty-two: Holiday Special with Actor Jason Mimms
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Jason Mimns is well known for his roles in many shows, including T.V. One’s original film Montross: Blood Rules and Ava Duvernay’s romantic drama Cherish the Day. While visiting Atlanta, GA, Jason sat down with Dr. Sylvia for an upfront and personal conversation about his career, the joys, trials, and tribulations of the film industry, and why he i…
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2023 Strategy Session: Member Redetermination, CAHPS, and Social Needs
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Leaders from Blue Cross Blue Shield Association; Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey, and Icario, offer insights on the priorities to focus on as we enter 2023. As we turn the page from 2022, health plans are facing new challenges impacting member experience, retention, and, most importantly, their member’s health. Topics include: the new …
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Challenging Questions to Help Physicians Reflect, Grow, and Find More Joy Practicing Medicine
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Medical training and practice habituates physicians to a culture that narrows the possibilities we see for finding joy and meaning in our work. We often become efficient task completers, stuck in routines, and prone to burnout. Saul and Stefan discuss a set of questions that challenge physicians to look at their work and themselves in fresh ways, c…
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Feeding Families in Denver -- The Power of Food
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Fewer families in Denver, Colorado will be going to sleep hungry at night now! That’s thanks to amazing new Goodr pop-up grocery stores that opened recently to service the Denver Public School system’s Colfax Elementary and Place Bridge Academy. Bolstered by a partnership with sponsors Aetna and Amazon. And Melissa speaks with Jackie Bell, the Colf…
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How to Add Innovation to Whole-Person Care
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Healthcare leaders from Blue Cross NC, KC Blue, Blue Cross MN and MOBE explore how leading health plans can leverage innovations in clinical, wellness and medication management to build and expand a whole-person care framework. Topics include: building digital care models for Whole-Person Care, developing an integrated whole-person solution; Levera…
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Proactively Managing Risk via Innovations in Last Mile Care
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Health leaders from Network Health, Health Net, Priority Health, and Health.io discuss how top health plans improve risk assessment and quality measures through innovations and at-home testing. Topics include: Strategies for deploying novel solutions to drive member engagement and reduce costs for members, especially among traditionally unengaged p…
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Peer Support to Improve Medicare Advantage Outcomes
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Our panel of experts from Humana, Regence, SCAN Health Plan and Wisdo discuss how incorporating peer support programs in your MA plans can improve clinical outcomes, lower costs, and boost engagement for members with chronic diseases, behavioral health issues and other social determinants of health. Hear "bright spots" and practical strategies you …
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Organic Chemistry and the Questionable Ways We Select and Train Physicians
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In October, the New York Times published the first of several articles about an eminent professor at NYU who was dismissed after his students complained that his organic chemistry class, essential to medical school admission, was too hard. Thousands of comments were unsympathetic saying, essentially, that students who couldn't hack it shouldn't be …
So you want to start infusing climate best practices into your workflow and ensure climate becomes a part of your protocol or criteria – but how?! Listen in as these Vanderbilt Health non-climate scientist leaders give hands-on, real world ideas that stem from how they pivoted their focus to take on climate change.…
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Staying Ahead of Star Ratings: Planning & Execution Strategies
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Julianne Eckert, Senior Director of Clinical Quality, Clover Health, Andre Bliss, Director of Medicare STARs, UPMC Health Plan and Marisa Howard, Senior Director, MA Operations, Evolent Health, share practical strategies and best practices to help Medicare Advantage plans to execute a successful star rating strategy. Learn significant trends and ga…
The roots of climate change–human-made emissions–and effects of the shifting environment range from microscopic impacts to mega-storms. Physician scientists are assessing how transitions, such as fossil fuel-powered vehicles to EVs, impact health care costs and our health – and whether invisible particles around us have long-term links to cancer. L…
Recorded from the heart of London, host Dr. Sylvia sits down with Michael Eboda, Founder and CEO of Powerful Media UK, whose mission is to connect great African, African, Caribbean, and African American minds through events, publications, introduction, and recruitment. This episode was recorded a few days after Britain elected its first Prime Minis…
Omolara Thomas Uwemedimo, MD, MPH joins Eric to discuss place-based interventions and how they are used to address health inequities. The place-based model focuses on improving health that aligns with community members, businesses, schools, churches and other institutions in a specific geographic location (a specific community or zip code). Omolara…
Get inspired to forge creative ways to influence people around you, and get some ideas on how to increase your own climate literacy. Vanderbilt Health physicians at various stages of their career explain how they are leading the charge to fuse climate literacy and awareness into their specialties, their clinics and their patients’ lives.…
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How Hybrid Models Transform Value-Based Care
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Experts from Centene, Humana, UnitedHealthcare and TytoCare discuss leveraging hybrid-care models to improve access to care, close gaps in care and improve outcomes. Learn successful strategies and best practices you can implement in your organization. Hybrid care models provide a more personalized, flexible, and seamless patient journey, improving…
Since COVID-19 began, depression has increased dramatically globally (CDC). In this episode, host Dr. Sylvia discusses mental health and mental illness, including depression and anxiety, with double board certified psychiatrist Dr. Iman Hypolite, who explains the difference between the two and how depression and anxiety present differently in highe…
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Contextualizing Care in a Nutshell (and a New Study)
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Today, Stefan talks with Saul about his favorite topic (and life's work), contextualizing care. We're re-releasing this conversation (from January of last year) because Saul's research team has just published a new study -- an RCT, titled "Effect of Electronic Health Record Clinical Decision Support on Contextualization of Care: A Randomized Clinic…
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Episode twenty-nine: Emotional Emancipation
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What is emotional emancipation and/or liberation? Why is this important to Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC)? And how do we release ourselves from self-limiting beliefs that prevent us from being our true selves? Host Dr. Sylvia dives into these questions during an intimate conversation with Erika Totten, a Spiritual Life Coach, Pleasu…
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Co-Designing Social Care: Payers and Providers
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Featuring Blue Shield of California, CommonSpirit, Kaiser Permanente, and Partnership to Align Social Care. The delivery of social care services in connection with healthcare requires new systems to organize the relationships and activities of healthcare payers, providers, community-based organizations (CBOs), and community members. This panel will…
Some 350 people came to the Metropolitan Baptist Church’s facility in Newark, New Jersey over the course of a three-day vision clinic recently. They left, not only with a new prescription, but stylish glasses they had chosen – all for free! This was thanks to the OneSight EssilorLuxottica Foundation and Aetna, bolstered by members of CVS Health’s W…
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Episode twenty-eight: Black Tech with Keisha Hines
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Black tech entrepreneurs are changing how we think about tech, racial justice, and equity. They positively impact communities through their technology, yet black tech practitioners are unrepresented in the tech industry. In this episode, host Dr. Sylvia sits down with Keisha N. Hines to explore the importance of Black tech and why diversity in tech…
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Activating Today’s Medicare Member: Effective Engagement Strategies
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Featuring: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Michigan, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City, Johns Hopkins HealthCare and Linkwell. Motivating Medicare members to take action to improve their health is a high priority for health plans. Our panel explores how health plans can meet members where they are at the right time and with the right message.…
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Episode twenty-seven: Community Impact with Chanda Smith Baker
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Chanda Smith Baker is the Chief Impact Officer and Senior Vice President at the Minneapolis Foundation. During this conversation Chanda shares her insightful perspectives on community impact, the importance of trusting and listening to community, her experience being a community leader in her own community, as well as her leadership style and commu…
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How One Value-Based Care Company Became Profitable!
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Landmark Health CEO Chris Johnson joins Eric to share his vision for the aging health system of tomorrow and his organization’s mission to help seniors age in place by extending primary and urgent care into the homes of patients with challenging illnesses. Finally, Chris talks about the shift to value-based care and how providers can navigate the n…
Racial Equity. What do you think when you hear this term? As you can imagine, racial equity may mean different things to different people based on who they are, their values, and their beliefs. The murder of George Floyd sparked national and international outrage and caused many organizations to step up their DEI efforts and even embrace race equit…
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What’s Next? New Pathways For Suicide Prevention
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We don’t live our lives in healthcare systems. Listen to how three inspiring researchers are building new systems, leveraging technology and influencing policy to alleviate the toll of suicide.
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Redetermination Strategies to Maximize Continuous Medicaid Coverage
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Featuring Healthfirst, Colorado Access and Icario. The impending need for state Medicaid agencies and plans to administer redeterminations for Medicaid beneficiaries poses a risk of lost coverage for nearly 15 million individuals, especially for the vulnerable D-SNP population. Our expert panel provides insights into the groundwork needed to educat…
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Medical Gaslighting: Why Are We A--holes?
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Recent articles in mainstream media about "medical gaslighting" have struck a nerve with thousands of comments on social media platforms. People are complaining about how their doctors are treating them, with women and underrepresented minorities disproportionately telling some of the worst stories. Meanwhile physicians are responding, mostly on th…
