Source: Ohio Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative Update
Paying doctors for outcomes instead of volume may seem to make sense, but what happens when patients can’t do their part to follow prescribed behavioral changes or take their medications? For some patients, their socioeconomic situation has a greater impact on their health than anything their doctor is doing. A Minnesota Department of Public Health study indicates that social determinants affect a larger proportion (40%) of health and well-being nationally than does clinical care (10%).