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Optimizing network adequacy and integrated care teams: A path to better health outcomes

November 19, 2025

The private sector routinely tracks how broad workforce issues impact the U.S. economy. What is less common is recognition of the ways the health sector’s workforce is as much a critical component to overall economic stability as it is the ability of the health care system to care for the nation’s population. Despite seeing this relationship in real time throughout the global COVID-19 pandemic, there has been little action taken outside of the health sector to reimagine support for the health workforce.

The health workforce is considered one of the most critical components of the health care system and its ability to support innovation, affordability, quality and equity within public and commercial insurance programs.

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