Commonwealth Fund July 1, 2019
Holistically addressing high-need, high-cost patients’ social and medical needs can improve their health outcomes and lower their health care costs.
There is a limited, yet growing base of evidence showing that when health care and community-based organizations work together to assure that the most complex patients have things such as housing, food, transportation and other social needs met, their use of expensive health care services such as emergency department visits and...