There is increasing interest in placing vulnerable populations (such as individuals with intellectual/developmental disabilities, children in foster care, the previously incarcerated) who were traditionally served by government through contracts with community based providers into managed care plans.
A recent study shows that non-medical factors such as economic instability, housing insecurity and unsafe neighborhoods impact 40% of patients’ health outcomes. If insurers and health systems are accepting financial risk for patients’ health, how do they manage the non-medical factors that drive the health outcomes?