Healthcare DIVE February 26, 2024
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Payers are continuously looking to improve health outcomes. Removing barriers to care and improving care access through analyzing social determinants of health (SDoH) data is a key strategy.

The social determinants of health (SDoH) include education, housing, transportation, income as well as other factors including where people are born, raised, live and work that impact their health and their ability to access care. In the United States, SDoH account for 30-55% of health outcomes and payers are leveraging SDoH data to identify care gaps and improve healthcare in underserved communities.

“Payers are concerned about access to care [and] what kind of programs need to be developed in order to get the appropriate care to the right people,” explains Russell Robbins...

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