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Friday, April 23, 2021
Dear John, In today’s newsletter, we’re continuing yesterday’s conversation about whether patients’ social risk factors should be considered when measuring a provider’s quality of care.
Social Determinants Matter For Hospital Readmission Policy: Insights From NYC
Yesterday we highlighted a Policy Insight paper that examined the debate over social risk adjustment. Today, we look at a related article in the April 2021 issue of Health Affairs that offers an
empirical perspective on the topic.
They found that a model that “include[s] additional individual and SDOH variables…had a substantial impact on the excess readmission ratio and penalty share of hospitals treating the highest proportion of high-SDOH-score patients.”
In celebration of National Poetry Month, we’re revisiting the three poems that won the 2019 Narrative Matters poetry contest and were featured in the April 2020 issue of Health Affairs: “The Headache,” “Epidemic,” and “Admission.” Listen to the authors read their poems on our Narrative Matters podcast.
Hospitals At Large Are Failing At Price Transparency
Listen to Health Affairs' Leslie Erdelack and Rob Lott break down the latest on the federal hospital pricing transparency rule and hospital compliance.
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