evaluation and management rules 2021
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Social Determinants“The evidence is clear: social determinants of health, such as access to stable housing or gainful employment, may not be strictly medical, but they nevertheless have a profound impact on people’s wellbeing.
Unfortunately, our fee-for-service system inherently limits the doctor-patient relationship to what can be accomplished inside the four walls of a clinician’s office. Today’s letter to state health officials highlights strategies by which states can promote a value-based system that fosters treatment of the whole person and lowers healthcare costs.
Patients are more than a bundle of medical diagnoses, and it’s time our healthcare system treated them as such.”
CMS Administrator Seema Verma
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