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Social Drivers of Health Archives

  • Leadership Perspective: CMS Needs To Include Measures For Social Drivers of Health

    June 9, 2022

    Michael Darrouzet, Jennifer Hanscom and Chip Baggett, board members of The Physicians Foundation, discuss the submission of the first-ever measures in a federal quality or payment program that offers incentives to physician practices and hospitals to engage their patients around...

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  • Viewpoints: Public Comment on 2021 CMS Measures Under Consideration (MUC): Drivers of Health

    January 13, 2022

    The Physicians Foundation urges the MAP Coordinating Committee to recommend to CMS the SDOH measures for both MIPS and the IQR.

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  • Viewpoints: Public Statement on 2021 CMS Measures Under Consideration (MUC): Drivers of Health

    December 7, 2021

    The Physicians Foundation urges MAP to recommend SDOH measures consistent with CMS’s stated commitment to identify new measures that are meaningful to patients and physicians.

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  • Viewpoints: Social Drivers of Health: Improving America’s Health Care System: Recognize the Realities of Patients’ Lives and Invest in Addressing Social Drivers of Health

    September 8, 2021

    The Physicians Foundation’s perspective on addressing the Social Drivers of Health.

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  • Research: Social Drivers of Health and Geographic Variation in Medicare per Beneficiary Spending

    August 26, 2021

    The Physicians Foundation Center for the Study of Physician Practice and Leadership at Weill Cornell Medicine, led by Lawrence P. Casalino, MD, PhD, published a study on how variations in Medicare per beneficiary spending across counties is associated with social...

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  • Leadership Perspective: What We Need To Be Healthy—And How To Talk About It

    May 3, 2021

    Robert Seligson, CEO of The Physicians Foundation, discusses how the social determinants of health impact Americans while uncovering how Americans think and talk about health.

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  • Viewpoints: Response to the Medicare Program CY 2021 Quality Payment Program Proposed Rules

    November 6, 2020

    The Physicians Foundation shares CMS’s commitment to make care safer and more affordable and to work with communities to help Americans live healthier lives.

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  • Viewpoints: Social Drivers of Health

    January 30, 2020

    The Physicians Foundation’s perspective on accounting for health-related social needs as central to any truly effective health care system.  

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  • Research: Association Between Patient Social Risk and Physician Performance Scores in the First Year of the Merit-based Incentive Payment System

    January 30, 2020

    The Physicians Foundation Center for the Study of Physician Practice and Leadership at Weill Cornell Medicine, led by Lawrence P. Casalino, MD, PhD, published an article uncovering physicians with the highest proportion of socially disadvantaged patients had significantly lower MIPS...

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  • Leadership Perspective: Health Care Reform: The ‘New Normal’ Needs to Go Beyond Clinical Care

    January 30, 2020

    Michael Darrouzet, Jennifer Hanscom and Philip Schuh, board members of The Physicians Foundation, discuss how we need seize this opportunity to improve health outcomes and our health care system by addressing social determinants of health.

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