11^th Annual SDoH and Health Equity Innovations to Transform Population Health Forum

Networking Continental Breakfast

Chairperson’s Opening Remarks:

The View from Washington on SDOH and Health Equity in 2025-2026

Maximizing Funding & Reimbursement Strategies to Sustain/Grow Your SDoH Programs

• What type of reimbursement models are working?
• How are health plans paying for these programs?
• What is successful and what isn’t?
• Options for paying for community health workers: What is part of the claims process and what isn’t?.
• What falls under MLR?
• Looking at momentum towards ILOS/1115 Waivers: How can more states implement?
• Which states are making progress and how can plans pursue?
• How are people successfully deploying the 1115 Waivers?

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Return on Equity for SDoH Programs: Measuring and Justifying the Cost of Care for SDoH Programs

• Improving population performance to improve quality outcomes
• How do you really under the value SDoH and Health Equity programs bring
• Quantifying your efforts
• Measured and justified programs: SDoH interventions outcomes
• Gaining the trust of the community
• Accessing the systems correctly
• How can you measure it?
• Engagement is key
• Increase in well visits? Decrease in ER visits?
• Making a business case to make money to save money

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Networking Refreshment Break

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Leveraging CBO Partnerships to Advance SDoH Programs & Improve Care

• Strategic partnerships and intentional positioning
• Expanding community engagement
• Building capacity through your existing partners
• How do you support CBOs to embrace Value Based Care through meaningful partnerships?
• Contracting with insurance providers
• Look to scan environment
• New and innovative partnerships
• Establishing culturally competent staff

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Workforce Challenges, Social Services, Community Care Hubs, and Social Resources, to Create Whole Person Care

• Continued expansion of community health workers
• Equitable pay and equitable work
• How are Community Care Hubs changing the SDoH landscape?
• How do you navigate workflow issues?
• How are your leveraging existing resources that are available?
• Supporting HUBs/CHWs in the space of sustainability via aging and chronic disease services
• Reimbursement innovations
• Leverage automation and technology for social needs resource hubs
• Community Health Worker supervision, training, and career development

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Ohio Case Study:

Collective Impact Collaboration: Working With the Competition for Real Results

• Taking a close look at how health plans work together for the same mission
• Logistics, communication, meetings
• Pooling funds for a bigger impact
• Decision making power

Networking Lunch

Who Helps the Helpers? Strategies to Heal and Protect

• Identify and validate staff health resilience as a social determinant of health--both for the communities that helpers serve, and for helpers themselves
• Ways to sustain staffing in fields burdened by trauma exposure and burnout.
• Ways to address trauma exposure that share responsibility between staff members, their supervisors, and their larger organizational structures
• Ways to incorporate local helper feedback into state policy

Case Study:

Replicating Partnerships for Growth and Scalability

• What does a scalable CBO partnership look like?
• What worked? What didn’t? And how can you grow the programs?
• Workforce challenges and setbacks
• Design and patient referrals
• Building capacity through your existing partners

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Networking Refreshment Break

Case Study:

Innovative, Actionable, and Scalable Strategies to Combat Food Insecurities

• Evidence-driven solutions
• Creative funding options and offsetting short-term financial burden
• Building sustainable solutions
• Where does the administration stan on food, nutrition, and health?
• What works locally but doesn’t work nationally (and vice versa)
• How many member touch points is enough?

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Building a Better Infrastructure to Improve Housing Insecurities and Create Sustainable Change

• Recognizing the magnitude and ripple affect of housing insecurities on health outcomes
• Evidence-based solutions
• Securing more resources and funding for members
• How is the administration prioritizing housing insecurities?
• National partnerships
• Grassroot initiatives
• Justice system reform

How Are Plans Resolving the Problems that Still Contribute to Transportation Insecurities

• What are the latest innovations health plans are using to improve transportation insecurities?
• Improving accessibility, timeliness, and communication
• Partnerships that work

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Networking Cocktail Reception

Networking Continental Breakfast

Chairperson’s Opening Remarks:

Recognizing & Adequately Responding to the Alarming Disparity in Infant/Maternal Mortality & Morbidity

• Acknowledging the differences and prioritizing the necessary changes
• How are plans tackling the problem and making actual headway
• Tactical and actionable engagement strategies
• From pregnancy to post-partum and everything in between: What is working?
• Examining the effectiveness of doulas initiatives
• Examining the intersection of housing and maternal mortality
• Targeted initiatives and results

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Using Meaningful Data for Predictive Analytics and Improved SDoH Health Outcomes

• Driving outcomes through meaningful and useful data
• How to measure impact of interventions
• Data and the intersection of Health Information Exchanges
• What can you measure? Challenges or dependency of that data
• Transitioning from a scattered shot to a more clearly defined and more strategic data driven approach
• How do you get there with dashboard, statewide data, community health needs assessment, and screening data?
• How are plans leveraging information to understand and target population better?
• Are physicians able to understand what interventions have taken place?
• How are health plans collecting SDoH data? Member vs provider?

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Leveraging AI, Technology, & Automation to Improve SDoH Initiatives

• How are plans using technology in hard-to-reach populations?
• Strategies and solutions for traditional patients traditionally doesn’t apply so how are plans tackling/accomplishing their SDoH goals?
• Predictive modeling innovations in the SDoH space
• How are plans effectively identifying member needs and demographics?
• Interoperability solutions for plans, provider, CBOs, and vendors
• Touch point advancements using technology and AI
• Looking at the growing role of AI in SDoH
• Maintaining the human touch

Networking Refreshment Break

TBA

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The Intersection Between Behavioral Health, SUD, and SDoH

• How is SDoH and health equity affecting people’s mental health in today’s climate?
• How are plans to responding to the mounting pressure of behavioral health and SDoH initiatives?
• Tactical steps to reduce suicide rates among groups of disproportional risk
• How does substance abuse play a role within these markets?

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Measuring Health Equity Index Scores and It’s Impact on Stars

• Where should plans begin?
• What is the expect HEI impact?
• Projected scores
• Prioritizing your HEI roadmap

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