Living through a pandemic is stressful and anxiety-inducing. Stay-at-home measures are compounding this stress, resulting in social isolation and unprecedented economic hardship, including mass layoffs and loss of health coverage. Fully understanding the impact of these pernicious trends on overall mental health will take time. However, precedents like the Great Recession suggest that these trends are likely to worsen the conditions driving suicide and substance-related deaths, the “deaths of
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Medicaid Transformation Project
Centene Becomes First Payer to Join AVIA’s Medicaid Transformation Project
What You Should Know: - AVIA announces that Centene Corporation has become the first payer to join the Medicaid Transformation Project (MTP), which aims to transform healthcare and related social needs for vulnerable populations through digitally-enabled care models and new technology solutions - Led by AVIA and former CMS chief Andy Slavitt. Collaboration among Centene, 30 health systems, and provider-sponsored health plans in MTP will enable these stakeholders to improve outcomes
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