States lack guidelines for using Medicaid funding for social services

https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/payer/states-without-guidelines-for-medicaid-funding-social-services

Medicaid today not only has the ability to help low-income patients with medical needs, it can also be a source of funding for social needs—however,

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How Medicaid Programs Can Revamp SDOH Programs, Community Health

As state Medicaid programs look to treat more patients for the social determinants of health (SDOH), they are looking to retool their intervention efforts for a next generation, according to a new report from Manatt.

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Social Prescribing

Social Prescribing

• Non-medical interventions to improve patient's health behaviors and improve wellbeing.
• Potential results will be decreased dependence on healthcare workers and demand for secondary services. 
• A social prescriber is also known as a: li

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CLIMATE CHANGE as SDoH + Public Health EMERGENCY

Climate Change is a health emergency. Let's act like it.

• Climate change threatens all efforts to balance equity in state wide, national, and global social and health challenges. 
• Efforts will be undermined by the imminent health effects of climate chan

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What Counts

What Counts highlights the stories and experiences of a growing group of leaders who are taking critical steps to end health disparities and adress SDOH among their patients. 

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What Counts

 

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It's not an either or, it's the BOTH AND...

There is a risk involved with using term, social determinants of health (SDoH), in consideration of accute problems. SDoH needs to be used in addressing long-term fixes.

What are the underlying systemic conditions that need to be reconfigured in order

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