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Peer-Reviewed Research

Researchers and data scientists at Elevance Health, often in partnership with universities and professional associations, publish data-driven research in journals and present at professional conferences in support of the company’s purpose to improve the health of humanity. These links represent recent peer-reviewed research published from teams with at least one Elevance Health author. 

Through our rigorous research efforts, we can identify emerging trends among our members and care delivery partners. We can evaluate the effectiveness of new benefits, services, and care programs. And we can use those findings to improve member experience, quality, and affordability of healthcare.  Our academic partners value the data and analytic resources within our organization as well as the opportunity to hear from decision-makers in healthcare. 

These studies highlight specific examples of innovation and demonstrate how research differentiates Elevance Health as we transform from a traditional health benefits organization into a lifetime trusted health partner.

Physical Drivers of Health

September 2025:
Comparative Safety of Glucagon-Like Peptide 1 Receptor Agonists (GLP-1-RAs) in Type 2 Diabetes and Chronic Weight Management: A Real-World Data Study

July 2025:
Predictors of Metabolic Syndrome (MetS) and the benefits of using the MetS diagnosis for people with serious and persistent mental illness 

July 2025:
A Digital Asthma Self-Management Program for Adults: A Randomized Clinical Trial | Pulmonary Medicine | JAMA Network Open | JAMA Network

June 2025:
How Value-Based Care with Provider Enablement Improves Maternal and Infant Outcomes in Medicaid

February 2025:
The Healthcare Integrated Research Database (HIRD) as a Real-World Data Source for Pharmacoepidemiologic Research

January 2025:
Mechanical Circulatory Support in Patients Without Cardiogenic Shock Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

October 2024:
Maternal and Infant Morbidity and Mortality in Relation to Delivery Mode in a Large U.S. Health Care Claims Database in 2019 and 2020

October 2024:
Association of Participation in Medicare's Oncology Care Model With Spending, Utilization, and Quality Outcomes Among Commercially Insured and Medicare Advantage Members | Journal of Clinical Oncology

August 2024:
The Burden of Health Care Utilization, Cost, and Mortality Associated with Select Surgical Site Infections - ScienceDirect

June 2024:
How Payers Can Help Hospitals Become Safer Through Value-Based Programs | NEJM Catalyst

May 2024:
Cancer Treatment Before and After Physician-Pharmacy Integration

February 2024:
Transformer-Based Time-to-Event Prediction for Chronic Kidney Disease Deterioration

January 2024:
Long Term Cost Outcomes among Commercially Insured Patients Undergoing Bariatric Surgical Procedures

November 2023:
Expiration of State Licensure Waivers and Out-of-State Telemedicine Relationships

October 2023:
Immunotherapy in combination with chemotherapy vs. immunotherapy alone for advanced non-small cell lung cancer and programmed death ligand 1 score <50

September 2023:
Comparative Analysis of First-Line FOLFOX Treatment With and Without Anti-VEGF Therapy in Metastatic Colorectal Carcinoma: A Real-World Data Study

August 2023:
Clinical and healthcare utilization outcomes during the 6 months following COVID infection in children

July 2023:
The Association Between Hypertensive Disorders During Pregnancy and Maternal and Neonatal Outcomes: A Retrospective Claims Analysis

June 2023:
Association Between Oncology Clinical Pathway Utilization and Toxicity and Cost Outcomes in Patients With Metastatic Solid Tumors

May 2023:
Association of Patient, Physician, and Practice-Level Factors with Uptake of Payer-Led Oncology Clinical Pathways

May 2023:
Using Publicly Available Health Plan Pricing Data for Research and App Development — Case Study of Colonoscopy

May 2023:
A New Wearable Diagnostic Home Sleep Testing Platform: Comparison with Available Systems and Benefits of Multi-Night Assessments

April 2023:
Healthcare AI Treatment Decision Support: Design Principles to Enhance Clinician Adoption and Trust

April 2023:
Learning End-to-End Patient Representations Through Self-Supervised Covariate Balancing for Causal Treatment Effect Estimation

March 2023:
One-year Serious Outcomes Among Long COVID Individuals: A Matched Cohort Study

January 2023:
The Association Between Mammography Screening Frequency and Breast Cancer Treatment and Outcomes: A Retrospective Cohort Study

Social Drivers of Health

June 2025:
High Heat Exposure and Medical Utilization among the CKD Population

March 2025:
Reckoning with the Past: A Qualitative Analysis of Medical Students Describing Their Formative Experiences with Weight Bias

February 2025:
Training socially accountable clinician-citizens: integrating clinical public health education in a medical school curriculum

December 2024:
Aligning with Obesity Guidelines: A Quality Improvement Initiative in Pediatric Primary Care - ScienceDirect

November 2024:
Impact of a Pediatric Produce Prescription Intervention on Food Security and Perceived Nutrition-Related Behaviors: A Mixed-Methods Study - PMC

October 2024:
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Prior Authorizations for Patients With Cancer

October 2024:
Role of Doulas in Improving Maternal Health and Health Equity Among Medicaid Enrollees, 2014‒2023 | AJPH | Vol. 114 Issue 11

Septemer 2024:
Proposed Nutrition Competencies for Medical Students and Physician Trainees: A Consensus Statement | Medical Education | JAMA Network Open | JAMA Network

June 2024:
Mitigating Racial Bias in Health Care Algorithms: Improving Fairness in Access to Supportive Housing

April 2024:
Distribution of a Remote Medical Exam Device Associated with an Increase in Telehealth Use

February 2024:
Feasibility and Impact Assessment of a Food Insecurity Protocol in a Large Urban Pediatric Primary Care Network

November 2023:
Health Related Social Needs and Whole Person Health: Relationship between Unmet Social Needs, Health Outcomes, and Healthcare Spending Among Commercially Insured Adults

September 2023:
Victims of human trafficking and exploitation in the healthcare system: a retrospective study using a large multi-state dataset and ICD-10 codes

July 2023:
Supporting Low-Income Workers to Address Nutritional Needs

July 2023:
Pay For What Matters To Patients: A Whole Health Population-Based Payment Approach

May 2023:
The Whole Health Index: A Practical, Valid, and Reliable Tool to Measure Whole-Person Health and Manage Population Health

May 2023:
Rigorous and Rapid Evidence Assessment in Digital Health with the Evidence DEFINED Framework

March 2023:
Distinguishing Health Equity and Health Care Equity: A Framework for Measurement

February 2023:
Observational Analysis of a Generalized, Health Plan-Led Community Health Worker Intervention in Medicaid

Explore Additional Research

Read more research on the drivers of health and the peer-reviewed findings of Elevance Health researchers, who have partnered with universities and professional associations to identify trends and evaluate benefits, services and programs.