URAC announced that CVS Health has earned its Health Equity Accreditation, recognizing CVS Caremark and CVS Specialty for creating solutions to address inequities in health outcomes. By garnering this ...

Educate the governing body on health equity and cultural competency within the organization and across the health care industry. Explain the language, vocabulary, and core concepts of health equity, ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) wiped away the agency’s stated intentions for the future of Medicare Advantage (MA), underlining new uncertainty for the future of health-related ...

As a psychiatrist working with marginalized and underserved individuals, I see firsthand how poverty impacts health and timely access to healthcare. How can we treat depression in a patient who ...

A pregnant African-American woman with her doula or birth support coach. The expectant mother, who had pink hair and is wearing a pink shirt, is sitting outdoors on a patio sofa smiling. The doula, a ...

… but our independent journalism isn’t free to produce. Help us keep it this way with a tax-deductible donation today. When an M Health Fairview patient experienced an unexpected life event that left ...

A new article published in Nature Reviews Disease Primers underscores the profound role that stigma can play in health care -- and how addressing stigma-related barriers can significantly improve ...

A bill that would place restrictions on private equity transactions involving health systems moved one step forward as state representatives passed the measure and it now moves to the state Senate. By ...

This is Part 1 of Embedded Bias, a series revealing how race-based clinical algorithms pervade medicine and why it's so difficult to change them. Pediatrician Alexandra Epee-Bounya had had enough. In ...

Amid a budget crunch, a position focused on health equity has been eliminated from the Spokane Regional Health District. According to the health district, laying off the district’s health equity ...