Community Health Center Staff Perspectives on Financial Payments for Social Care.

ABSTRACT: Policy Points State and federal payers are actively considering strategies to increase the adoption of social risk screening and interventions in health care settings, including through the use of financial incentives. Activities related to social care in Oregon community health centers (CHCs) provided a unique opportunity to explore whether and how fee-for-service payments for social risk screening and navigation influence CHC activities. CHC staff, clinicians, and administrative leaders were often unaware of existing financial payments for social risk screening and navigation services. As currently designed, fee-for-service payments are unlikely to strongly influence CHC social care practices.

Context

A growing crop of national policies has emerged to encourage health care deliver

SUBMITTER: Lopez JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10726824 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature