Sunday, May 21, 2023 | The Latest Research, Commentary, And News From Health Affairs
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The Accountable Health Communities (AHC) Model, launched in 2017 by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, screens beneficiaries for health-related social needs and supports navigation of beneficiaries with community services.
In two articles released ahead-of-print this week, authors discuss addressing health-related social needs in the Accountable Health Communities Model.
In this article, the authors evaluate Medicaid and fee-for-service Medicare claims from 2015 to 2021 to determine whether the AHC Model reduced acute, hospital-based service use and led to lower health care spending.
The findings of the paper indicate that there were statistically significant reductions in emergency department visits for both Medicaid and fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries.
To assess how some AHC Model beneficiaries used community services available to them, the authors in this study reviewed data submitted by thirty-one participating bridge organizations from 2018 to 2021.
The authors find that “navigation did not significantly increase the rate of community service provider connections or the rate of [social] needs resolution, relative to a randomized control group.”
Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Andrew Anderson from the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and a member of the Health Equity Fellowship for Trainees Program at Health Affairs.
Kathleen Haddad interviews Tom Insel, author of Healing: Our Path From Mental Illness to Mental Health, on the latest federal efforts to reform mental and behavioral health care in the United States.
Health Affairs is launching a contest! The premise is simple. Finish the statement “You’re A Health Policy Wonk If…"
We'll share some of the submissions on Forefront in July, and the first-place winner of the contest will receive a Health Affairs tumbler and a free Unlimited membership for a year. Submit by May 31.
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