Healthcare Innovation August 27, 2024
Mark Hagland

A team of researchers looks at SDOH challenges in the MSSP program

A research article by a team of researchers has found that the development of accountable care organizations—particularly of the ACOs participating in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) has not in itself advanced the development of work on the social determinants of health (SDOH). That’s the conclusion of an article published in the July issue of Health Affairs.

The authors—Dhruv Khullar, William L. Schpero, Lawrence P. Casalino, Reekari Pierre, Samuel Carter, Yasin Civelek Manyao Zhang, and Aelia M. Bond—write in “Meeting The Needs Of Socially Vulnerable Patients: Views Of ACO Leaders On Moving From Intent to Action”—that “The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has placed growing emphasis...

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