The VBC Foundations series recently featured a blog unpacking how risk adjustment plays a key role in value-based care (VBC) contracts. VBC Foundations – Decoding Risk walks through how even small changes in a population’s Risk Adjustment Factor...
Social Drivers of Health (SDOH) are the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age, and they can include factors like income, education, housing, access to healthcare, employment, social support, and food security....
My husband and I welcomed our first child in late December 2024, baby boy Aaron Henry. Those first few months were a blur of joy and insanity, and when I started to emerge from my sleep deprived haze, I began reflecting on the process of how I...
When the federal COVID-19 Public Health Emergency ended, states resumed Medicaid redetermination, requiring millions of people to confirm eligibility or risk losing coverage. Under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBA), states are simultaneously...
Rural healthcare in the U.S. is at a crossroads. Premature death from the five leading causes remains far more common in rural communities, where over 80% of counties lack access to essential health services and one in five residents lives in a...
