Innovators Council

“Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona is proud to be part of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine Innovators Council and collaborate with other leaders in the field of lifestyle medicine. As an organization that serves over 2 million Arizonans, we recognize the importance of addressing the root causes of chronic diseases and empowering our members and our communities to make healthy choices that improve their quality of life. By partnering with ACLM, we hope to advance the evidence-based practice of lifestyle medicine and make it more accessible and affordable for our members and communities.”

“As a member of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine Innovators Council, Blue Cross Blue Shield Vermont is dedicated to advancing the principles of lifestyle medicine to promote sustainable health and wellness. The recent rise in the use of GLP-1 weight loss medications underscores the urgent need for effective obesity management strategies. While these drugs can be beneficial, they often come with significant costs and potential side effects. Lifestyle medicine offers a powerful alternative, not only aiding in weight loss but also enhancing overall well-being, reducing the risk of chronic diseases, and empowering individuals to take control of their health. Our commitment to lifestyle medicine reflects our belief in its transformative potential to create lasting, positive impacts on our members’ lives.”

“Humana is proud to be a founding member of the ACLM Innovators Council. The Council serves as a convener of key stakeholders to collaborate, co-develop and implement lifestyle medicine programs at scale. This acceleration of lifestyle medicine is an important driver toward re-focusing our health system to truly focus on patient health, prevention, and wellness.”

“Blue Shield has long recognized the transformative potential of lifestyle medicine in reshaping healthcare delivery in our nation. Assembling thought leaders through the ACLM Innovators Council is a pivotal tool for future collaboration and innovation. We are confident that the relationships formed through the Council will expedite and unify the process of introducing valuable, solution-based approaches to the market, enhancing the well-being of our members and other Americans.”

“We share ACLM’s goals of making it easier for clinicians to practice lifestyle medicine and making lifestyle medicine treatments more accessible for people of all backgrounds. Our biggest successes have come when we can get the incentives aligned so that everyone—payers, clinicians, patients, and pharma/device suppliers—wins when lifestyle medicine is used as a treatment. The ACLM Innovators Council is a place where all of these stakeholders can come together and find ways to do so.”

“The days of value-based care organizations taking physicians who are already performing well and giving them risk contracts are well past us. We need innovative clinical delivery models which truly slow and reverse unnecessary disease progression and its outsized corresponding spend. Lifestyle medicine fulfills that promise and we are lucky to have a forward-thinking organization like ACLM at the helm of that movement. The Innovators Council allows us to collaborate with fellow travelers at other leading organizations looking to break the mold of the broken health care system.”