Healthcare Finance News August 30, 2019
Family physicians often don’t consider where patients live when assessing their healthcare needs, despite research indicating a person’s environment can significantly affect their health. Factors such as access to healthcare, nutritious food and the quality of housing, education, water and air — in other words, social determinants of health — all play a role.
With the emergence of value-based care, there are more incentives for providers to take those factors into account. Doctors are rewarded for actually improving a patients’ health in a value-based delivery model, instead of being paid for each visit, procedure or test, regardless of the outcome.
But a study published in the Annals of Family Medicine found that family physicians couldn’t accurately estimate where their patients...
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