Despite a heavy infusion of public and private support during the COVID-19 pandemic, Medicaid and Medicare beneficiaries in Oregon reported that housing and food insecurity shot up during the onset of the pandemic in March of 2020 -; and their basic needs remained in doubt through at least the end of the following year.
Oregon Health & Science UniversityNov 26 2024
Earlier this month, CMS released a report involving surveys of 1.1 million beneficiaries nationwide. The nationwide survey data found that beneficiaries whose basic needs -; housing, food, transportation, utilities, interpersonal safety -; were addressed in a health care visit were on average healthier and spent less on health care compared with those who did not receive assistance.
Survey gauges health-related social needs Beginning in 2019, researchers in OHSU's Oregon Rural Practice-based Research Network engaged with a consortium of 50 clinical sites around the state providing health care to people insured by Medicare and Medicaid. As part of a CMS-sponsored initiative to better understand the health-related social needs of beneficiaries, researchers began regularly surveying them. Some 21,000 beneficiaries were surveyed in Oregon over three years.
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