HealthLeaders Media January 19, 2022
The Boston-based physician organization wants social drivers of health included in payment models for healthcare services.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
– One key principle is the imperative to create new standards for social drivers of health (SDOH) quality, utilization, and outcome measurement.
– As SDOH drive 70% of health outcomes and associated costs, financial incentives and risk models must be created to account for the realities of patients’ lives.
– Standard measures are critical to address and quantify the impact SDOH have on health outcomes, costs, and disparities.
The Physicians Foundation is pressing the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) to adopt new measures for social drivers of health.
The Physicians Foundation has adopted the term social drivers of health rather...
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