Healthcare DIVE June 5, 2019
Dive Brief:
- The majority (80%) of accountable care organizations report using home visits for some patients with complex needs, according to new research published in Health Affairs. Larger, integrated ACOs were more likely to use home visits due to the high staffing costs associated with implementing a home visits program.
- All ACOs reported using non-physician staff to conduct home visits, and most frequently for care transitions home visits once patients are discharged from the hospital. Medicaid ACOs were most likely to use care transitions home visits (86.7%) compared with 82% of Medicare ACOs and 79.6% of commercial ACOs.
- While ACOs report successfully using home visits to identify unmet social and clinical needs of complex patients, researchers found...
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