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Leavitt Center for Alliances, an HMA Initiative, Drives Collaboration and Solutions

Today, Health Management Associates (HMA) launched the Leavitt Center for Alliances, an HMA Initiative, which aims to elevate the national discourse on healthcare and help healthcare organizations solve their most complex challenges through consensus-based alliances. The Leavitt Center for Alliances (Leavitt Center) is home to expert conveners who have decades of experience in the private … Read more

The CARIN Alliance Announces Code of Conduct Accreditation Program with EHNAC

Consumer health app developers are finding ways to help consumers and their physicians make better use of their health data. These apps can now get accredited for their compliance with best practices in managing personal health information, an important step towards building trust that consumers’ health data will be protected as it is moved more … Read more

Coalition Recommends Comprehensive Federal Policies to Meet the Needs of Individuals with Long-COVID

COVID Patient Recovery Alliance’s Interim Report Outlines More Than Two Dozen Recommendations for Federal Policymakers To Help Promote Recovery and Restoration Washington D.C. — Today, the COVID Patient Recovery Alliance released an interim report, “Towards Recovery and Restoration: Policy Recommendations to Improve the Care of Individuals Living with Long-COVID.” The multi-sector alliance, convened by Governor … Read more

Health Management Associates Acquires Wilson Strategic

LANSING, MI – Today, Jay Rosen, founder, president, and co-chairman of Health Management Associates (HMA), announced the firm’s acquisition of Wilson Strategic, a Washington state-based company that operates State of Reform health policy conferences. DJ Wilson founded State of Reform in 2010 with the goal of bridging the gap between healthcare and health policy. State … Read more

Health Management Associates Acquires Edrington Health Consulting

LANSING, MI­ – Today, Jay Rosen, founder and president of Health Management Associates (HMA), announced the firm’s acquisition of Edrington Health Consulting (EHC), an Arizona-based firm that specializes in providing actuarial and financial analyses to health plans, providers, and government agencies. Founded in 2014, EHC provides an array of data and analytic support services related … Read more

How 4 Health Plans Are Taking Innovative Approaches To Addressing Food As Medicine

Nutrition’s role in better health outcomes (both physical and mental) and potential cost savings is spurring increased innovation within the healthcare sector. Providers are increasingly interested in how to best connect their patients to quality food, which means that health plans are figuring if (and how) they will reimburse for increasing nutrition security. Here are … Read more

New Healthcare Collaborative Launches to Help Patients with Long-COVID

Governor Mike Leavitt and Nancy-Ann DeParle Announce New, Multi-Sector Alliance to Address Long-COVID Challenges and Promote Recovery Salt Lake City, April 28, 2021—Today, Governor Mike Leavitt, former Governor of Utah and former U.S. Secretary for Health and Human Services (HHS), and Nancy-Ann DeParle, former Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy … Read more

Newly Released Modeling Results Detail Timeline to Reaching COVID-19 Herd Immunity: Current Vaccination Projections and Trends to Monitor

Salt Lake City, March 16, 2021—Today, Leavitt Partners released “Using Modeling to Project Herd Immunity: When and how we will get back to normal,” a research paper outlining results from their current model to determine the expected timeline to reaching herd immunity from COVID-19. The research was conducted in response to growing interest in understanding … Read more

Using Budget Reconciliation To Advance Health Policy Change In Congress

On Thursday, February 25, 2021, Leavitt Partners held a LinkedIn Live broadcast focused on using budget reconciliation to advance health policy change in Congress, featuring Andrew Croshaw, Liz Wroe and Sara Singleton from Leavitt Partners. They discussed President Biden’s healthcare priorities as well as what healthcare organizations can do to impact health-related legislation. President Biden … Read more

Leavitt Partners Welcomes Jeremy Bahr to the Firm

Salt Lake City, March 3, 2021–Leavitt Partners is pleased to announce that Jeremy Bahr has joined the firm as a Principal. Jeremy will focus on developing solutions that cross between the intersection of value and strategy, within the life sciences sector. He helps build brands, deliver insights, and lead business transformations. Since 2018, Jeremy has … Read more