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Understanding Value-Based Care and Its Importance to Stakeholders in the Health Care System
There is a transition underway in the health care system from payers reimbursing providers based on the number of services provided (known as fee-for service) to reimbursing them based on the quality of care provided (known as value-based care). This shift from “volume to value” aims to improve patient outcomes and place an emphasis on preventive care, wellness, and care coordination. This is not only significant for avoiding complex care. As we describe below, value-based care also has the potential to improve population health and advance health equity while making care and coverage more affordable.
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Meet Our Super Seven: EmblemHealth's Hometown Heroes
On July 7, the New York City Mayor’s Office will host Hometown Heroes, a ticker tape parade celebrating the Summer of New York City and thanking the essential workers who supported New Yorkers through the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Karen Ignagni: Decoding the Health Care Debate
As all of us at EmblemHealth listen to candidates debate health care, we do it from the perspective of our work bringing working families, employers, and beneficiaries of public programs access to affordable health care every day. This mission is crucial for the many members we serve throughout the tristate area. Over the next 15...
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The Importance of Coming Out to Your Health Care Provider
How coming out to your health care provider can help improve your preventive care.
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My COVID-19 Vaccine Experience
Dr. Kurtz, SVP of Specialty Services at our subsidiary AdvantageCare Physicians, describes his experience receiving his first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
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A Policy Framework for Moving the Needle on Health Equity
Achieving health equity has become a central goal for policymakers across the country. It is now widely accepted that we need to break down economic, social, and health care barriers to ensure everyone has a fair opportunity to achieve their highest level of health.
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Health Care is Personal. Our Medicare Products Should Be, Too.
My grandmother was the heart and soul of our family, our very own monarch. A big family that lived on a single, dead-end street. Our queen faced breast cancer three times.
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Opportunities To Advance Health Equity and Support Primary Care
Dr. Navarra Rodriguez, M.D., Chief Medical Officer and President of AdvantageCare Physicians (ACPNY) provides policy recommendations to improve health equity by supporting primary care.
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What it Means to Be a Nonprofit Health Plan: A CFO’s Perspective
What I’ve learned in my seven months at EmblemHealth is that we take our nonprofit status seriously, in part because it underscores a tradition more than 80 years in the making: an unapologetically patient-centered approach to health care delivery. Before I joined EmblemHealth as Chief Financial Officer, I had never worked for a nonprofit. I’ve...
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Expanding Population Health, One Borough at a Time
EmblemHealth and AdvantageCare Physicians’ new state-of-the-art health hub in Brooklyn offers primary and specialty care, with free wellness programs and other social support services for neighborhood residents.