Healthcare Innovation June 3, 2020
An interview with Brown University’s Elizabeth Tobin-Tyler on how states are incentivizing or mandating ACO participants to screen for social determinants of health and build social services partnerships
State governments that are beginning to marry social determinant of health efforts with value-based payment programs in Medicaid accountable care organizations are encountering a number of challenges. A new report from the Milbank Memorial Fund highlights some of these issues, which include implementing processes for integrating social risk screening and referral into practice, achieving provider buy-in, calculating provider risk when incorporating social determinants, and measuring outcomes.
The Milbank report is called “Marrying Value-Based Payment and the Social Determinants of Health Through Medicaid ACOs: Implications for Policy and Practice.” Healthcare Innovation recently interviewed...