You Find What You Look For

Providers will find patients effected by SDOH if they’re looking for them.

Z-codes are meant to facilitate their search for these patients. They’re an entire category of the ICD-10-CM codes that are used to document SDOH data.

Why is it important that providers discover the patients effected by SDOH? What are they missing out on if they don’t find these patients? What do they stand to gain from finding these patients?