Managed Healthcare Executive November 29, 2021
MHE Staff

Results from Year 6 of the Independence-at-Home demonstration project also did not show reductions in hospital admissions and emergency department visits.

Home-based primary care seemed like it might bring back the old-fashioned house call and perhaps reduce the need for expensive medical care in the process by catching healthcare problems early.

Results from sixth year of the CMS’ Independence-at-Home demonstration project, which gave practices an incentive payment for providing home-based primary care may dim, if not extinguish, hopes that delivering primary care at home major will yield major cost savings. The estimated effect of Medicare expenditures was $41 per beneficiary per month (PBPM) in the Year 6 of the program, and that difference didn’t meet the standard tests for statistical...

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Topics: CMS, Govt Agencies, Home, Insurance, Medicare, Patient / Consumer, Primary care, Provider, Survey / Study, Trends
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