"Are you aware of any research into cost sharing between social and health organizations to address the wrong pocket problem? If we can quantify the value of SDoH to a granular level, this should at least be possible in theory... beyond ACOs." -Mary-Sara Jones
"In most countries health and social are supported by government. In the US, healthcare is commercial. Do you have thoughts how to address the wrong pocket problem give this additional complexity?" -Mary-Sara Jones
Replies
There is an insightful paper recently published in Health Affairs about the 'wrong pocket problem' by Len Nichols (lnicol9@GMU.edu), Director of the Center for Health Policy and Research and Ethics and Professor of Health Polocy at George Mason University. I think there is an opportunity to combine these concepts with the Canadian research ROI informatin to be begin developing actionable policies to encourage experimentation and testing. Let's stop admiring the problem and do something.
https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/pdf/10.1377/hlthaff.2018.0039