{"id":25035,"date":"2025-10-16T11:39:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T15:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25035"},"modified":"2025-10-16T11:39:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T15:39:09","slug":"sickest-medicare-patients-least-likely-to-have-social-risks-documented-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25035","title":{"rendered":"Sickest Medicare patients least likely to have social risks documented: Study\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By: Mackenzie Bean for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hospitals infrequently document social risk factors using Z codes, particularly for clinically complex patients, according to research from the University of Pennsylvania\u2019s Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/quality\/patient-safety-outcomes\/sickest-medicare-patients-least-likely-to-have-social-risks-documented-study\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/quality\/patient-safety-outcomes\/sickest-medicare-patients-least-likely-to-have-social-risks-documented-study\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"105\" class=\"wp-image-8434\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/research-data.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/research-data.jpg 450w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/research-data-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/research-data-392x272.jpg 392w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/research-data-130x90.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By: Mackenzie Bean for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) Hospitals infrequently document social risk factors using Z codes, particularly for clinically complex<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,1517,12,6],"tags":[61,94,1941],"class_list":["post-25035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-consumer-data","category-health-care-general","category-medicare-general","tag-medicare","tag-older-adults","tag-social-risks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25036,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25035\/revisions\/25036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}