Health Payer Intelligence May 26, 2021
Medicare Advantage plans can build on coronavirus home healthcare strategies such as bundling social determinants of health services and leaning into remote patient monitoring.
After a year of accelerating home healthcare services, payers can build on their coronavirus home healthcare strategies to bolster their home healthcare programs more permanently.
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s (AHRQ) Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) analyzed 18 principal diagnoses—including respiratory diseases, mental health conditions, and childbirth—and compared their admission and readmission costs.
The researchers found that, on average, the readmission cost for these 18 diagnoses was around $14,400. The 30-day readmission rate for Medicare specifically declined from 2010 through 2016, but remained the...
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