AcademyHeath manages the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Research in Transforming Health and Health Care Systems program to support studies examining how states are using their payment and contracting strategies to incentivize or require Medicaid managed care organizations to undertake activities that identify and respond to enrollees’ social needs. For many state Medicaid programs, identifying and addressing enrollees’ social needs is a growing priority. The studies examine a range of issues related to how these strategies and activities are being implemented and the impact on enrollees, plans, community-based organizations, and other stakeholders. Read more about the awarded projects in this brief overview, or by clicking on the links to each grant description below.
- Examining the Role of State-MCO Contractual Mandates/Incentives and a Social Services Referral Program in Addressing Social Determinants of Health
- Assessing Oregon’s Efforts to Increase Investments to Address Social Determinants of Health and Health Equity
- Supporting the Implementation and Disseminating the Learnings of North Carolina’s Healthy Opportunities Pilots
- Medicaid Managed Care Organizational Strategies to Address Enrollee Unmet Social Needs Using Community Partnership
- Improving California’s Medicaid Program by Addressing Social Determinants of Health for Children
- How Medicaid Managed Care Contracts Can Impact Community Health Centers’ Services that Address Social Determinants of Health
- Community Health Worker MCO Population Health Strategy (CHaMPS) Evaluation