Advancing Health Together
Progress ReportBecoming a Lifetime, Trusted Health Partner
Hear our President and CEO, Gail Boudreaux, talk about how Elevance Health is partnering to reimagine the healthcare system by elevating the importance of whole health and advancing health beyond healthcare.
Partnering for Progress
At Elevance Health, improving the health of humanity is the purpose driving all our work. Yet we realize that achieving this will take immense collaboration. We know the invaluable importance of the role that our care provider partners play inside and outside of the healthcare system, and in no uncertain terms, we recognize that achieving our purpose will take the closest of collaborations between us.
This report outlines our approach to make meaningful, measurable progress toward that goal by partnering closely with care providers to make whole health a reality, one person at a time.
The 2022 Advancing Health Together: Progress Report summarizes how we are committing to whole health by contracting for outcomes, collaborating for success, and connecting for health.
Committing to Whole Health
Progress to achieving real whole health can only be made with a thorough understanding of the healthcare market, definition of specific outcomes, and rigorous methods for measuring each of them. Here are our beliefs and plan relating to each.
Contracting for Outcomes
Changing how healthcare is paid for may be the single most impactful lever for improving our healthcare system. Whether consumers choose a health plan in the Medicaid, Medicare, or Commercial markets, we are “all in” on leading the move to value-based reimbursement.
Collaborating for Success
Advancing health together means supporting care providers with the data, insights, and tools they need to deliver exceptional care to their patients — our consumers. By partnering with care providers of all types, we aspire to be the easiest payer to work with.
Connecting for Health
Connecting the dots between consumers' physical, behavioral, social, and pharmacy needs is a tough task. Here is how our services company, Carelon, does just that — making it easier to deliver whole health.
Moving Forward Together
It takes all of us — care providers, inside and outside of the clinical setting, and payers — actively working together to create a strong healthcare delivery system. Only then will we create a real impact in and with the communities we serve.
About Elevance Health
We are a leading health company dedicated to improving lives and communities, and making healthcare simpler. Through our affiliated companies, we serve more than 119 million people, including more than 47 million within our family of health plans.1 Delivering health beyond healthcare, we have expanded from being a partner in health benefits to a lifetime, trusted health partner.
More than 100,000 associates strong,1 we are fueled by our purpose of improving the health of humanity.
Our name brings together the ideas of "elevate" and "advance" and underscores our commitment to elevating whole health and advancing health beyond healthcare for our consumers, their families, and our communities. It conveys our focus on innovation and our pursuit of moving health forward.
100,000+
associates1
1.7 million+
care provider relationships nationwide2
47 million+
total medical membership1
630 million
claims processed1
11.6%
of U.S. births covered by a health plan affiliate3
119 million+
people served1
- Total Commercial: 66.6%
- Total Government: 33.4%
Our affiliated health plans' networks (across the U.S.)
8,793 hospitals4
357,621 primary care providers4
672,185 specialists4
486,629 behavioral care providers5
Note: Hospitals include general acute care, inpatient psychiatric, and specialty hospitals.
Our Foundation
The Elevance Health Foundation works to address health equity by focusing on improving the health of the socially vulnerable through strategic partnerships and programs in our communities. The Foundation is focused on three primary areas through 2024: maternal health, food as medicine, and substance use disorder. We will also continue to respond to disaster and tragedy events to address emergent and urgent needs of communities.
2021 National Community Activity
- Expanded the Food As Medicine program to improve health outcomes for over 100,000 people who were screened for food insecurity across 14 markets2
- Engaged pregnant people in maternal health programs, resulting in a 33% reduction of premature births2
- Brought mental health resources to 1 million people with type 1 diabetes and their families2
- Fulfilled $50 million COVID-19 response pledge2
Read more about how we hold ourselves accountable for making a meaningful impact on the health of our communities in our Corporate Responsibility Report.
1 Elevance Health press release, Elevance Health Reports Third Quarter 2022 Results, Raises Full Year Outlook (October 19, 2022): elevancehealth.com/newsroom/elv-quarterly-earnings-q3-2022. 2 Elevance Health, Whole Health 2021: Impact Report. 3 Internal maternity data (2022). 4 BlueWeb Association (October 2022). 5 Blue Cross Blue Shield Association PPO Network, 2022.
Committing to Whole Health
Discover how our whole-health view helps achieve better outcomes