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Waymark's perspective on how to address our current healthcare workforce shortage through dedicated funding and tailored support for primary care.

Food insecurity elimination may improve important, but understudied, aspects of health. Evaluations of food insecurity interventions should holistically investigate their potential to improve many different aspects of health.

How do we fund effective interventions to address social risks to health, such as food insecurity, housing instability, and inadequate transportation?

Congrats to Our Data Science Lead Dr Sadiq Patel for making the Health Affairs Editor's Pick List.

Companies, like ours, can have more than one founding moment.

Waymark has won for its "New Health Application of AI".

Sanjay Basu, Waymark's Head of Clinical, interviews Atheendar Venkataramani, a Waymark advisor.

Waymark has been selected as a preferred vendor for not-for-profit Safety Net Health Plans.

We devised an approach to get reliable estimates of the effect of real-world interventions, even if there are unobserved confounding factors that influence who gets the intervention.

Patients with optimal vs inadequate broadband availability had more video-based primary care visits and fewer in-person primary care visits after the onset of the COVID pandemic.

The low availability of primary care in rural counties was responsible for 10% of the relationship between living in a rural area and having lower life expectancy.

Sanjay Basu, Waymark's Head of Clinical, interviews Christina Severin, a Waymark advisor.

Sanjay Basu, Waymark's Head of Clinical, interviews Urmimala Sarkar, a Waymark advisor.

Why social workers are uniquely positioned to enhance patient outcomes and improve Medicaid.

Under what circumstances do CHW programs thrive, and conversely when do they fail, and why?

Our new collaborative research observes a 21% gender wage gap that gets even bigger with commonly used alternative payment formulas. We found alternative formulas that can correct the disparity.

Sanjay Basu, Waymark's Head of Clinical, interviews Crystal Zhou, a Waymark advisor.

The fee-for-service piecemeal approach to supporting primary care, by adding more billing codes for different preventive services, doesn’t seem to work.

We found that among Americans who use insulin, 14.1 percent spent more than 40 percent of their postsubsistence family income on insulin alone, representing almost 1.2 million people.

How can a multidisciplinary team be most effective when working with PCPs?

Her appointment expands Waymark's depth of expertise in Medicaid.

Sanjay Basu, Waymark’s Head of Clinical, interviews Monica Soni, a Waymark advisor.

Our core values aren’t just something to be written on a wall. They are why we started this company.

To achieve our mission, we’re targeting our efforts towards strengthening and augmenting primary care providers.

Afia Asamoah, Waymark’s Head of Legal and People, interviews Kaye Foster, a Waymark advisor.

The challenge of building modern healthcare technology is to communicate with the existing healthcare system we are a part of.

Waymark is building a community health worker brigade for Medicaid.

Waymark closes $45M Series A to improve healthcare access and outcomes among Medicaid beneficiaries

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