Association Between Social Deprivation, Race/Ethnicity, and Unplanned 30-Day Hospital Readmissions for Medicare Beneficiaries
Submitted: January, 2024
Social and economic factors impact a person’s health outcomes in addition to traditional clinical factors, and there is growing recognition of the impact of social risk factors on health outcomes.1,2 National health insurers like Medicare and Medicaid, which pay for care for people who are the most at risk for experiencing health disparities, need measures of social risk to implement targeted programming and payment allocation to equitably prevent rehospitalizations.
