H&HN July 13, 2016
Two organizations released key findings and measures toward implementing social determinants into patient care.
There’s a growing wave of interest to incorporate social determinants of health into public health, and in a value-based model of care, these factors may carry a lot of sway.
Today, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine released a report that suggests Medicare could incorporate such determinants into its funding of senior care. The report, “Accounting for Social Risk Factors in Medicare Payment: Criteria, Factors, and Methods,” is the third in a series of five reports on social determinants of health concluded it possible the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services could account for several social risk factors in Medicare’s value-based payment programs. Those...
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