Editorial

Beware of a new model that at least one, if not more, of the BlueCross BlueShield plans are offering to their self-insured employer customers as a way to compete with the alternate funding programs that have been pushed heavily onto those same employers in recent years.

The 12th Annual Summit of the Association of Value-Based Cancer Care (AVBCC) in 2022 was the site of an encouraging and positive trend that is taking on more prominence in US healthcare: recognition, discussion of, and intervention around social determinants of health (SDoH). Although the concept that SDoH has an identifiable and actionable influence on health is not new, there are clear signs that thinking is moving more broadly beyond something we are considering to something we can actually use to improve healthcare.