Executive Briefings | August 7, 2019
One Health Plan’s Partnership Approach To Social Determinants
Health plans and social determinants of health (SDH) haven’t traditionally been mentioned in the same conversation—there has been a “hard line” between what is health care and what is social services. For most of my career, “what are health plans doing to address social needs” simply wasn’t a meaningful question.
Those times have changed as payers and health plans realized the impact of social factors on health care costs. There is now a wide array of health plan-financed programs to address SDH. And we have covered this shift extensively in the last few years—<a href . . .