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Traditional ROI methods weren't designed to capture the full value that social needs interventions deliver. For example, we know that Non-Emergency Medical Transportation (NEMT) gets people to their primary care appointments, which leads to reduction in ER visits. But there are also economic and social benefits, such as

• better chronic disease management
• healthier members over time
• member/patient retention
• staff satisfaction, and
• reduced use and cost of emergency transportation services

And these all have monetary value to your organization.In this workshop, you’ll be able to:

1. Understand the evidence behind NEMT on a range of outcomes, so you know what works before you invest a dollar
2. Prioritize outcomes and leading indicators for social value
3. Understand how better evidence and valuation methods can support stronger investments and partnerships

This workshop is for you if you are a health plan or health system leader

1. deciding which programs get funded
2. running NEMT programs
3. putting Rural Health Transformation Program funds to work on transportation

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Details:

Hosted by HealthBegins and the Social Impact Team at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health, in collaboration with the Common Health Coalition.

Innovative solutions for financing population health and public health efforts exist. The challenge isn't a lack of innovations. It's the absence of enabling infrastructure for these innovations to spread: the policy and regulatory incentives that can remove barriers, the industry standards that simplify adoption and promote shared learning, and the accountability mechanisms that sustain commitment.

We will bring together decision-makers and leaders — state agency officials, health system CFOs, managed care leaders, public health directors, health economists, actuaries, and policymakers — to spotlight innovative solutions in three critical areas:

1. Financial Modeling, Cost Effectiveness Analysis, & Actuarial Methods that better assess the value of equity-focused population health and public health investments
2. Collaborative Financing Mechanisms and Place-Based Investment Models that pool and unlock private capital to support community health and health equity
3. Aligning Insurance with Upstream Prevention, via robust community reinvestment models and longer term enrollment periods.

Key Takeaways:

• Proposed Innovations
• Concrete Opportunities

Objectives:

By the end the session, participants will be able to:

• Identify the primary value propositions for FIM interventions, specifically Medically Tailored Groceries (MTGs) and Medically Tailored Meals (MTMs), for health plans, especially those serving residents in San Joaquin Valley
• Describe at least two major challenges or barriers to scaling up health plan investments in MTGs and MTMs in San Joaquin Valley and other regions
• Understand how a Blended Value Method can better define the financial, economic and social value of FIM interventions, including MTGs and MTMs
• Describe the data that health plans and CBOs need to capture the Blended Value of FIM interventions
• Identify at least one concrete opportunity to increase or optimize health plan investments in FIM interventions, including MTGs and MTMs, in San Joaquin Valley and elsewhere

Objectives:

By the end of the session, participants will be able to:

• Describe Food is Medicine (FIM) Interventions  and the evidence behind them.
• Identify practical strategies to navigate implementation challenges and scale programs, including lessons learned from the field.
• Connect with peers and surface opportunities for collaboration to strengthen and sustain FIM efforts in their communities.

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