Integrating Social Determinants of Health to Improve Outcomes without Sacrificing Profitability

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If you treat complex patients, chances are that social determinants of health (SDOH) affect your outcomes. Whether you’re sharing risk in a value-based care arrangement or negotiating a risk-based contract, a care management strategy addressing social, economic, and environmental factors that influence health can help you alleviate risk and improve health equity. But can you… Continue reading Integrating Social Determinants of Health to Improve Outcomes without Sacrificing Profitability

How Risk-Bearing Entities Can Extract Value from Care Management Programs

The pandemic has placed additional strain on member health, creating new challenges not only around how to safely deliver care, but also what types of care are delivered. Higher levels of depression and anxiety lead to an increasing need to treat the whole person by moving beyond medical needs to also address the behavioral and… Continue reading How Risk-Bearing Entities Can Extract Value from Care Management Programs

Integrated Behavioral Health: The Time is Now

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In the last decade, the healthcare industry has seen more traction in the idea of addressing behavioral health treatment as part of whole-person care, also known as person-centered care. The pandemic has brought mental health to the forefront in a way it has never been before, expanding integrated behavioral health to a genre of conditions that… Continue reading Integrated Behavioral Health: The Time is Now