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AHA Center for Health Innovation Market Scan

Walgreens to Invest $1 Billion in Its Primary Care Strategy

Walgreens Boots Alliance, which has long struggled to cement its place in primary care services, plans to invest $1 billion to collocate in 500 to 700 VillageMD stores and, over the next five years, to offer full-service doctors’ offices. More than half of the locations will be in Health Professional Shortage Areas and Medically Underserved Areas/Populations as designated by the Health Resources & Services Administration.

The key to new payment programs? Data management.

Value-based payment approaches, including Medicare’s Quality Payment Program for physicians and other eligible clinicians, tie fees and bonuses to how well providers perform on various qualit
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The Value Initiative: Lawrence General Hospital – Lawrence, Mass.

Lawrence General Hospital joined with the city's leaders to launch “Healthy on the Block,” which partners with neighborhood convenience stores to offer fresh fruit in areas that are considered a food desert.
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Greenville Hospital System - Barber Shop and Beauty Shop Talks

What is it?Greenville Hospital System expanded its frank, men’s-only Barber Shop Talk to include a women’s-only counterpart. Both talks are led by a physician and diversity leader.
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White House Releases FY 2022 Discretionary Budget Request

President Biden today submitted to Congress his discretionary budget request for fiscal year (FY) 2022.

Making the case for community health workers

Spectrum Health, a Michigan health care system serving both urban and nonurban areas, is striving to quantify the benefits that community health workers provide to patients with chronic conditions.
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Atrium Health receives CMS Health Equity Award

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services presented a 2020 CMS Health Equity Award to Atrium Health, formerly known as Carolinas HealthCare System, for its efforts to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in colorectal cancer screening rates.
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White House Releases FY 2023 Budget Request

President Biden today submitted to Congress his budget request for fiscal year (FY) 2023.
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Sentara Obici Hospital - Community Health Outreach Program

What is it?This program helps participants navigate the complex health care system and provides an interdisciplinary approach that helps them follow their medical plans of care.
AHA Center for Health Innovation Market Scan

BCBSA Sets Out to Reduce Racial Disparities in Maternal Health by 50% in the Next Five Years

The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) launched a national strategy on April 20 to address racial health disparities, starting with maternal health. This multiyear strategy is built on harnessing data analytics to measure and track disparities and taking programs that work for individual Blues plans and bringing them to scale.