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Strategies to Achieve Alignment, Collaboration, and Synergy across Delivery and Financing Systems: Testing a New Terminology System for Health and Social Services Integration
Webinar

Testing a New Terminology System for Health and Social Services Integration

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This webinar evaluates a novel mechanism for incorporating social services into existing health billing codes, thereby allowing both social and health care services to be reimbursed within one system. Drs. Miriam Laugesen and Sara Abiloa of Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health discuss the study.

Historically, common payment standards intended to link private health care providers with payers did not factor in coding or language to cover services provided by nonmedical personnel. Non-medical personnel, specifically those in the social services sector, remain at a financial disadvantage relative to their peers. Payment structures and coding systems are not neutral administrative directories but reflect the social and political environment in which they were produced. The inclusion or exclusion of covered services in the standard coding language has multiple downstream consequences and can lead to health inequities.

Review of regulations governing coding methodologies, insurance agency payer plans, and feedback from stakeholder interviews inform recommendations on changes to policies that would codify social services and potentially improve access to services that address the social determinants of health.

Webinar

Aligning in Crisis: Strategies and Tools to Leverage Federal Funding

On 9/14, experts from Aligning in Crisis, with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, will discussed how, if deployed strategically and effectively, federal funds can advance equity, shift power to the community, and set the stage for positive, long-term change.

Brief

Intermediary Organizations Are Urgently Needed to Assist in Modernizing Public Health and Addressing the Drivers of Health in the United States

This issue brief describes the different roles intermediaries can play; provides examples of where they have been used in practice; and identifies the risks, benefits, and possible innovations of intermediaries as well as policy approaches that might facilitate their appropriate use.

Publication

Revising the Foundational Public Health Services in 2022

This publication provides a framework outlining the unique responsibilities of governmental public health and can be used to explain the vital role of governmental public health in a thriving community; identify capacity and resource gaps; determine the cost for assuring foundational activities; and justify funding needs