Common use of Reducing Health Disparities and Assuring Health Equity Clause in Contracts

Reducing Health Disparities and Assuring Health Equity. Covered California and the Contractor recognize that promoting better health requires a focus on addressing health disparities and health equity. Because of this, Contractor agrees to work with the Exchange to identify strategies that will address health disparities in meaningful and measurable ways. This shall include: (a) Contractor providing, as part of its annual completion of the eValue8 Submission (see Section 3.05) Racial, Cultural and Language Competency module (Section 2.5.1.7 in the 2013 QHP Solicitation), which describes its programs to address health equity and health disparities; (b) Participating in Exchange workgroups and forums to share strategies and tactics that are particularly effective; (c) Describing to the Exchange how, if at all, it collects and uses the data elements described in 3.04(d) that follows regarding Exchange’s Enrollees to: (1) understand how health care is being differently delivered to different populations and (2) to support targeted clinical or preventive services; and (d) Working with the Exchange to determine how data can best be collected and used to support improving health equity including the extent to which data might be better collected by the Exchange or the Contractor and how to assure that the collection and sharing of data is sensitive to Enrollees’ preferences. In working with the Exchange, Contractor agrees to report how it plans to collect and use data on demographic characteristics, including but not limited to: (i) Race (ii) Ethnicity (iii) Gender

Reducing Health Disparities and Assuring Health Equity. Covered California and the Contractor recognize that promoting better health requires a focus on addressing health disparities and health equity. Because of this, Contractor agrees to work with the Exchange to identify strategies that will address health disparities in meaningful and measurable ways. This shall include: (a) Contractor providing, as part of its annual completion of the eValue8 Submission (see Section 3.05) Racial, Cultural and Language Competency module (Section 2.5.1.7 in the 2013 QHP Solicitation), which describes its programs to address health equity and health disparities; (b) Participating in Exchange workgroups and forums to share strategies and tactics that are particularly effective; (c) Describing to the Exchange how, if at all, it collects and uses the data elements described in 3.04(d) that follows regarding Exchange’s Enrollees to: (1) understand how health care is being differently delivered to different populations and (2) to support targeted clinical or preventive services; andand Covered California – Final Health Plan Contract Attachments, May 6,20117, 2013 Attachment 7-3 (d) Working with the Exchange to determine how data can best be collected and used to support improving health equity including the extent to which data might be better collected by the Exchange or the Contractor and how to assure that the collection and sharing of data is sensitive to Enrollees’ preferences. In working with the Exchange, Contractor agrees to report how it plans to collect and use data on demographic characteristics, including but not limited to: (i) Race (ii) Ethnicity (iii) Gender

Reducing Health Disparities and Assuring Health Equity. Covered California and the Contractor recognize that promoting better health requires a focus on addressing health disparities and health equity. Because of this, Contractor agrees to work with the Exchange to identify strategies that will address health disparities in meaningful and measurable ways. This shall include: (a) Contractor providing, as part of its annual completion of the eValue8 Submission (see Section 3.05) Racial, Cultural and Language Competency module (Section 2.5.1.7 in the 2013 QHP Solicitation), which describes its programs to address health equity and health disparities; (b) Participating in Exchange workgroups and forums to share strategies and tactics that are particularly effective; (c) Describing to the Exchange how, if at all, it collects and uses the data elements described in 3.04(d) that follows regarding Exchange’s Enrollees to: (1) understand how health care is being differently delivered to different populations and (2) to support targeted clinical or preventive services; and (d) Working with the Exchange to determine how data can best be collected and used to support improving health equity including the extent to which data might be better collected by the Exchange or the Contractor and how to assure that the collection and sharing of data is sensitive to Enrollees’ preferences. In working with the Exchange, Contractor agrees to report how it plans to collect and use data on demographic characteristics, including but not limited to: (i) Race (ii) Ethnicity (iii) Gender: i. Race

Reducing Health Disparities and Assuring Health Equity. Covered California and the Contractor recognize that promoting better health requires a focus on addressing health disparities and health equity. Because of this, Contractor agrees to work with the Exchange to identify strategies that will address health disparities in meaningful and measurable ways. This shall include: (a) Contractor providing, as part of its annual completion of the eValue8 Submission (see Section 3.05) Racial, Cultural and Language Competency module (Section 2.5.1.7 in the 2013 QHP Solicitation), which describes its programs to address health equity and health disparities; (b) Participating in Exchange workgroups and forums to share strategies and tactics that are particularly effective;; and (c) Describing to the Exchange how, if at all, how it collects and uses the data elements described in 3.04(d(d) that follows regarding Exchange’s Enrollees to: (1) understand how health care is being differently delivered to different populations and (2) to support targeted clinical or preventive services; and (d) Working Work with the Exchange to determine how data can best be collected and used to support improving health equity including the extent to which data might be better collected by the Exchange or the Contractor and how to assure that the collection and sharing of data is sensitive to Enrollees’ preferencesequity. In working with the Exchange, Contractor agrees to report how it plans to collect and use data on demographic characteristics, including but not limited to: (i) Race (ii) Ethnicity (iii) Gender