Peer-Reviewed Research
Researchers and data scientists at Elevance Health, often in partnership with universities and professional associations, publish data-driven research in journals and present at professional conferences in support of the company’s purpose to improve the health of humanity. These links represent recent peer-reviewed research published from teams with at least one Elevance Health author.
Through our rigorous research efforts, we can identify emerging trends among our members and care delivery partners. We can evaluate the effectiveness of new benefits, services, and care programs. And we can use those findings to improve member experience, quality, and affordability of healthcare. Our academic partners value the data and analytic resources within our organization as well as the opportunity to hear from decision-makers in healthcare.
These studies highlight specific examples of innovation and demonstrate how research differentiates Elevance Health as we transform from a traditional health benefits organization into a lifetime trusted health partner.
Physical Drivers of Health
January 2024:
Long Term Cost Outcomes among Commercially Insured Patients Undergoing Bariatric Surgical Procedures
November 2023:
Expiration of State Licensure Waivers and Out-of-State Telemedicine Relationships
August 2023:
Clinical and healthcare utilization outcomes during the 6 months following COVID infection in children
April 2023:
Healthcare AI Treatment Decision Support: Design Principles to Enhance Clinician Adoption and Trust
March 2023:
One-year Serious Outcomes Among Long COVID Individuals: A Matched Cohort Study
January 2023:
The Association Between Mammography Screening Frequency and Breast Cancer Treatment and Outcomes: A Retrospective Cohort Study
December 2022:
Feature Acquisition using Monte Carlo Tree Search
December 2022:
The Longitudinal Impact of a Multistate Commercial Accountable Care Program on Cost, Use, and Quality
November 2022:
A Digital Approach to Asthma Self-management in Adults: Protocol for a Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial
September 2022:
Generating High-fidelity Privacy-conscious Synthetic Patient Data for Causal Effect Estimation with Multiple Treatments
September 2022:
Hierarchical Data Visualization of Experimental Erythrocyte Aggregation Employing Cross Correlation and Optical Flow Applications
September 2022:
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Health Care Utilization Among Insured Individuals with Common Chronic Conditions
July 2022:
Learning Causal Effects from Observational Data in Healthcare: A Review and Summary
Behavioral Drivers of Health
October 2023:
A Social ACO for Medicaid Managed Care
September 2023:
Impact of COVID-19 on Behavioral Health Services Use Among Medicaid Enrollees with Chronic Behavioral Needs by Race and Ethnicity
September 2023:
Telehealth Initiation of Buprenorphine for Opioid Use Disorder: Patient Characteristics and Outcomes
September 2022:
Implementing Multistate Behavioral Health Pay-for-Performance Initiatives in Medicaid Managed Care
Social Drivers of Health
September 2023:
Victims of human trafficking and exploitation in the healthcare system: a retrospective study using a large multi-state dataset and ICD-10 codes
July 2023:
Supporting Low-Income Workers to Address Nutritional Needs
July 2023:
Pay For What Matters To Patients: A Whole Health Population-Based Payment Approach
May 2023:
Rigorous and Rapid Evidence Assessment in Digital Health with the Evidence DEFINED Framework
March 2023:
Distinguishing Health Equity and Health Care Equity: A Framework for Measurement
February 2023:
Observational Analysis of a Generalized, Health Plan-Led Community Health Worker Intervention in Medicaid
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