Home Research Research Library Adjusting Medicare Payments For Social Risk To Better Support Social Needs Adjusting Medicare Payments For Social Risk To Better Support Social Needs 2021 Author(s) Phillips, Robert L, Ostrovsky, Andrey, and Bazemore, Andrew W Source Health Affairs Forefront Social determinants of health have greater influence on health than does health care, yet Medicare and most other payers have yet to adjust payments to better support the capacity of health care providers to address social needs. The 2014 Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation (IMPACT) Act directed the secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to review evidence linking social risk with performance under existing federal payment systems and to suggest policy options. In response, HHS produced two reports and commissioned a series of five additional reports from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM). The second HHS report suggests that area-based (or, geographically based) measures of social deprivation could play a role in payment adjustment. ABFM Research Read all 2026 Validity of Area-Based Social Risk Indices Used at Higher-Level Geographies and Clinic Locations Go to Validity of Area-Based Social Risk Indices Used at Higher-Level Geographies and Clinic Locations 2026 Family Physicians’ experiences of administrative Harms Go to Family Physicians’ experiences of administrative Harms 2026 Reclassifying Primary Care: A Decision Tree Approach to Improving Workforce Estimates and Research Using Claims Data Go to Reclassifying Primary Care: A Decision Tree Approach to Improving Workforce Estimates and Research Using Claims Data 2026 Strong Obstetric Care Training in Family Medicine Residency: Bolstering the Number of Family Physicians Attending Births Go to Strong Obstetric Care Training in Family Medicine Residency: Bolstering the Number of Family Physicians Attending Births
Author(s) Phillips, Robert L, Ostrovsky, Andrey, and Bazemore, Andrew W Source Health Affairs Forefront
ABFM Research Read all 2026 Validity of Area-Based Social Risk Indices Used at Higher-Level Geographies and Clinic Locations Go to Validity of Area-Based Social Risk Indices Used at Higher-Level Geographies and Clinic Locations 2026 Family Physicians’ experiences of administrative Harms Go to Family Physicians’ experiences of administrative Harms 2026 Reclassifying Primary Care: A Decision Tree Approach to Improving Workforce Estimates and Research Using Claims Data Go to Reclassifying Primary Care: A Decision Tree Approach to Improving Workforce Estimates and Research Using Claims Data 2026 Strong Obstetric Care Training in Family Medicine Residency: Bolstering the Number of Family Physicians Attending Births Go to Strong Obstetric Care Training in Family Medicine Residency: Bolstering the Number of Family Physicians Attending Births
2026 Validity of Area-Based Social Risk Indices Used at Higher-Level Geographies and Clinic Locations Go to Validity of Area-Based Social Risk Indices Used at Higher-Level Geographies and Clinic Locations
2026 Family Physicians’ experiences of administrative Harms Go to Family Physicians’ experiences of administrative Harms
2026 Reclassifying Primary Care: A Decision Tree Approach to Improving Workforce Estimates and Research Using Claims Data Go to Reclassifying Primary Care: A Decision Tree Approach to Improving Workforce Estimates and Research Using Claims Data
2026 Strong Obstetric Care Training in Family Medicine Residency: Bolstering the Number of Family Physicians Attending Births Go to Strong Obstetric Care Training in Family Medicine Residency: Bolstering the Number of Family Physicians Attending Births
