We’ve scheduled targeted outreaches this year to our members—your Peoples Health patients—to stress the importance of certain activities, including getting needed tests and preventive screenings. We’re using three communication channels (postcards, emails and text...
Health equity exists when patients have a fair and just opportunity to be at their healthiest. Helping patients achieve health equity requires removing obstacles—including inequalities around race, ability, income, gender identity and sexual orientation—that place...
It’s widely acknowledged that social determinants of health drive medical utilization, health care costs and health outcomes. Research attributes as much as 40% of health outcomes—and up to one-third of deaths—in the U.S. to social factors.Impact for Health Care...
The Peoples Health network performance and engagement department—NP&E for short—was introduced earlier this year to enhance connections with our providers. The NP&E team functions as a conduit between People Health and your provider office or facility and...
Revisions have been made to the Peoples Health Provider Reference Guide.
We want to take a moment to thank you, our providers! We value your partnership and continued efforts to deliver consistent, quality care to our plan members. We’re pleased to share that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has once again bestowed it’s...
Be assured that Peoples Health makes decisions about coverage for health care services as such: Utilization management decision-making is based only on medical necessity, appropriateness of care and services, and existence of coverage. Peoples Health does not reward...
Optum Behavioral Health, our network behavioral health provider, is seeking your feedback about the identification, treatment and referrals of patients with behavioral health disorders who are seen in the primary care setting.
Effective Aug. 1, we began working with One Pass™ to offer an enhanced fitness benefit to most People Health plan members. One Pass will help administer the benefit, which allows members to access multiple fitness centers within a nationwide network, as well as online...
The changing demographics of our country create new challenges for the provision of care. We see this occurring in our local communities. Research shows that socio-cultural differences between patients and health care professionals influence many aspects of the...