Executive Briefings | July 6, 2017
The Thousand Right Things
The America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) 2017 meeting in Austin wrapped up earlier this month, with lots of discussion about population health management – and a special focus throughout on social determinants of health. That focus (which you may or may not find surprising) reflects a broader trend in health plan management involving high-cost, complex consumers.
Since the widespread adoption of parity and the elimination of pre-existing condition clauses and lifetime plan limits, the focus on population health management has shifted to that group, often referred to as “superutilizers” (see <a href="https://www.openminds.com/market-intelligence . . .