AHIMA February 23, 2024
With the start of the new year, health information (HI) teams are integrating the government’s new requirements for reporting social determinants of health (SDOH) data.
As of Jan. 1, 2024, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) began requiring healthcare organizations to screen for five social risk drivers, a task that was voluntary in 2023. The required five SDOH domains are: food insecurity, interpersonal safety, housing insecurity, transportation insecurity, and utilities.
The SDOH reporting requirements apply to hospitals and health systems that admit patients. The collection period will run through 2024, and healthcare organizations will have until May 15, 2025, to submit the data.
Healthcare teams are expected to ask patients questions pertaining to the five domains at any...
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