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A research article by a team of researchers has found that the development of accountable care organizations—particularly of the ACOs participating in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) has not in itself advanced the development of work on the social determinants of health (SDOH). That’s the conclusion of an article published in the July issue of Health Affairs.
The authors—Dhruv Khullar, William L. Schpero, Lawrence P. Casalino, Reekari Pierre, Samuel Carter, Yasin Civelek Manyao Zhang, and Aelia M. Bond—write in “Meeting The Needs Of Socially Vulnerable Patients: Views Of ACO Leaders On Moving From Intent to Action”—that “The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has placed growing emphasis on social drivers of health, but little is know about how accountable care organizations (ACOs) aim to meet the needs of vulnerable patients.”