Closing the Gap Between Needs and Solutions: How Health Plans Can Support the Use of Data to Address Social Needs and Social Determinants of Health

Nearly one in five U.S. adults live with a diagnosed behavioral health condition , but patients often struggle to access the care they need. Behavioral Health Integration (BHI) has emerged as a powerful, evidence-based method to deliver high-quality behavioral health care in primary care and other medical settings...

Understanding population health and realizing the goal of health equity require the collection, sharing, and use of comprehensive data – including race, ethnicity, and language (“REaL”) and sexual orientation and gender identity (“SOGI”) data. Yet...

Editor’s Note: COVID-19 has illuminated systemic racial and ethnic inequities in our health care system and catalyzed an unprecedented call to action to address their root causes.1 It also has revealed the dearth of reliable and standardized race and...