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Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program Adds Scoring for Health Disparities

Hall Render

In the FY 2024 IPPS Final Rule (the “Final Rule”), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) incorporated certain social risk factors into the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing (“VBP”) Program (“the Program”).

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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: An Introduction

Healthcare IT Today

It’s always been pretty obvious that factors such as wealth, race, education, and the quality of food and water have enormous impacts on health. But only in the past few years have the medical professions tried to quantify and capture these factors. Data can both call out SDoH and help to address its effects.