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Accountable Health Communities — Addressing Social Needs through Medicare and Medicaid

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  • Dawn E. Alley, Ph.D.,
  • Chisara N. Asomugha, M.D.,
  • Patrick H. Conway, M.D.,
  • and Darshak M. Sanghavi, M.D.

To accelerate the development of a scalable delivery model for addressing upstream determinants of health, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recently announced a 5-year, $157 million test of a payment model called Accountable Health Communities.

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This article was published on January 5, 2016, at NEJM.org.

Author Affiliations

From the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Baltimore.

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