Pushing The Social Service Line

In less than fifteen years, the U.S. health care system’s view of social services has completely turned around. Traditionally, payers and health plans were quick to draw the line between what was health and what was social. The data has always proved that social factors were major contributors to health care costs. However, there wasn't policy support for blurring those lines or funding to pay for services that were not “medically necessary”.

But now there’s a different perspective. Over the past three years, our team has covered a range of changes in payer policy and health . . .