Balanced Area Deprivation Index (bADI): Enhancing Social Determinants of Health Indices to Strengthen Their Association With Healthcare Clinical Outcomes, Utilization, and Costs

The bADI's robust associations with health care outcomes highlight its potential to improve cost management and care management strategies aimed at reducing health disparities. By adopting the bADI, ACO programs could implement budget-neutral redistributions of resources, reallocating funding from less disadvantaged areas to the most deprived regions. This approach promises to enhance equity and effectiveness in addressing SDoH within the health care system.