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UC Davis Health is leading the way on innovative digital inclusion pilots with passionate leaders like their own Dr. Ashish Atreja, MD, MPH, CIO and Chief Digital Health Officer. We were thrilled to get a bit of his time at ViVE to discuss current and future health equity endeavors. Join Verizon’s own Robin Goldsmith and Ned Chini in this hopeful conversation with Dr. Atreja.
Health insurers love to advertise themselves as guardians of care, but the real story often begins when a patient’s life no longer fits neatly into a spreadsheet. In oncology especially, “coverage” isn’t a bureaucratic checkbox—it’s the fragile bridge between a treatment that finally works and a relapse that can undo years of grit…
In “Fighting for Coverage,” a patient describes a double war: the physical fight to stay alive and the bureaucratic fight to prove to an insurer that her life is worth the cost. Her account spotlights a core tension in the U.S. system—coverage decisions are increasingly shaped by prior authorizations and desk-based reviewers who…
The sustainability of the healthcare system won’t be secured by another round of cost-cutting or clever benefit design alone, but by a hard cultural pivot toward alignment: payers, providers, employers, and patient advocates pulling on the same rope instead of grading each other on different exams. Right now we’ve built a maze that…