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Biden Administration’s First Attempt to Use Social Risk to Adjust Health Care Spending Leaves Marginalized Communities Behind
The ACO REACH offering was billed as the first value-based offering from CMMI to explicitly support health equity–but our analysis shows that the tool used to measure social risk would shift resources away from dense, urban cities with high Black and Latino populations to largely rural areas in the South.
Health Care’s First Attempt at Social Risk Adjusting: How the ACO REACH Program Will Test a Financing Model Intended to Incentivize Equity
CMMI launches the first ever social risk adjustment methodology in the form of their new ACO model REACH. Read more about how this adjustment method works and what the impacts may yield.