[{"innerBlocks":[],"name":"core\/freeform","postId":378,"blockType":{"name":"core\/freeform","keywords":[],"attributes":{"content":{"type":"string","source":"raw"},"lock":{"type":"object"}},"providesContext":[],"usesContext":[],"selectors":[],"supports":{"className":false,"customClassName":false,"reusable":false},"styles":[],"variations":[],"apiVersion":3,"title":"Classic","description":"Use the classic WordPress editor.","category":"text"},"originalContent":"Health plans and other stakeholders are convinced that the use of ICD-10 coding can greatly launch the uniform capture of data related to social determinants of health and improve health outcomes.In an October 10 webinar hosted by the eHealth Initiative, Jennifer Bordenick, eHi\u2019s CEO, called SDOH a \u201ccritical issue today.\u201d That\u2019s why eHi, the American Hospital Association, Humana, UnitedHealthcare and other organizations have been working in the past year to push the use of ICD-10 related to SDOH.\u201cIt\u2019s encouraging that despite the competitive nature of healthcare, the private sector is working together to address factors pertinent to patient care and well-being in a sustainable, scalable manner,\u201d eHi says.

According to Caraline Coats, vice president of Bold Goal and population health strategy at Humana, social needs gaps\u2014such as isolation, loneliness and food insecurity\u2014make it difficult to have a happy, healthy, purposeful life, and that has a tremendous impact on overall well being.\u201cStandardized screening and code capturing can reveal these upstream impacts on health and create richer data that helps physicians, care managers, social workers and home health professionals meet our members\u2019 needs more proactively,\u201d she says. \u201cThe result is better care and better health outcomes at a lower cost.\u201d Sheila Shapiro, UnitedHealthcare\u2019s senior vice president of strategic community partnerships, has worked with SDOH for the past six years. \u201cWe were thinking about this area before SDOH was cool,\u201d she says. In 2017, United did trials around SDOH, and focused on how to build an infrastructure for its employees to significantly work on removing barriers to care. The main problem was, there was no way to give data a voice, she says.\u201cWe assisted each person one person at a time\u2014which is how this work has to be done\u2014and United wondered how it could remove barriers to sharing the information. \u201cAt Humana, we all know this is making a difference to improve the overall health of the population.\u201dSome people say they believe that SDOH is linked to Medicaid, but there\u2019s actually a socio-economic shift in the U.S. indicative of the need to address SDOH more broadly, Shapiro says. These include: 40 percent of Americans can\u2019t withstand a $400 emergency, and 78 percent of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. As a result, 35 states are now requiring managed care plans to do some kind of activity related to SDOH. \u201cWhere we started the work was to think about scale for every individual in our country,\u201d Shapiro says. Humana wanted to give the people a voice and it begins with the ICD-10 coding\u2019s Z codes. Z codes are used to describe experiences, problems, or circumstances, that affect patient health, but are not considered a specific disease or injury.\u201cWhen we started, we weren\u2019t doing anything with those codes because they weren\u2019t tied directly to a benefit, but now we are,\u201d she says.","saveContent":"Health plans and other stakeholders are convinced that the use of ICD-10 coding can greatly launch the uniform capture of data related to social determinants of health and improve health outcomes.In an October 10 webinar hosted by the eHealth Initiative, Jennifer Bordenick, eHi\u2019s CEO, called SDOH a \u201ccritical issue today.\u201d That\u2019s why eHi, the American Hospital Association, Humana, UnitedHealthcare and other organizations have been working in the past year to push the use of ICD-10 related to SDOH.\u201cIt\u2019s encouraging that despite the competitive nature of healthcare, the private sector is working together to address factors pertinent to patient care and well-being in a sustainable, scalable manner,\u201d eHi says.

According to Caraline Coats, vice president of Bold Goal and population health strategy at Humana, social needs gaps\u2014such as isolation, loneliness and food insecurity\u2014make it difficult to have a happy, healthy, purposeful life, and that has a tremendous impact on overall well being.\u201cStandardized screening and code capturing can reveal these upstream impacts on health and create richer data that helps physicians, care managers, social workers and home health professionals meet our members\u2019 needs more proactively,\u201d she says. \u201cThe result is better care and better health outcomes at a lower cost.\u201d Sheila Shapiro, UnitedHealthcare\u2019s senior vice president of strategic community partnerships, has worked with SDOH for the past six years. \u201cWe were thinking about this area before SDOH was cool,\u201d she says. In 2017, United did trials around SDOH, and focused on how to build an infrastructure for its employees to significantly work on removing barriers to care. The main problem was, there was no way to give data a voice, she says.\u201cWe assisted each person one person at a time\u2014which is how this work has to be done\u2014and United wondered how it could remove barriers to sharing the information. \u201cAt Humana, we all know this is making a difference to improve the overall health of the population.\u201dSome people say they believe that SDOH is linked to Medicaid, but there\u2019s actually a socio-economic shift in the U.S. indicative of the need to address SDOH more broadly, Shapiro says. These include: 40 percent of Americans can\u2019t withstand a $400 emergency, and 78 percent of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. As a result, 35 states are now requiring managed care plans to do some kind of activity related to SDOH. \u201cWhere we started the work was to think about scale for every individual in our country,\u201d Shapiro says. Humana wanted to give the people a voice and it begins with the ICD-10 coding\u2019s Z codes. Z codes are used to describe experiences, problems, or circumstances, that affect patient health, but are not considered a specific disease or injury.\u201cWhen we started, we weren\u2019t doing anything with those codes because they weren\u2019t tied directly to a benefit, but now we are,\u201d she says.","order":0,"get_parent":{},"attributes":[],"attributesType":{"content":{"type":"string","source":"raw"},"lock":{"type":"object"}},"dynamicContent":""}]

Humana, UnitedHealthcare among those pushing ICD-10 coding for SDOH

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