Industry Voices—The evidence is mounting: Better care actually does cost less

Payers, providers, and community organizations have traditionally struggled to meet these needs. Fee-for-service reimbursement models offer little incentive to make referrals for non-clinical, out-of-network, and community-based services. The recent push to improve documentation of social determinants of health (SDoH) represents an important step forward. Without a similar focus on improving care coordination and reimbursement, however, this practice only leads to increased referrals to agencies with limited resources to address an unanticipated increase in demand....